Whose RS5 sunk off the coast of France?
03-20-2019, 07:23 AM
#11
Club AutoUnion
This seems to happen with some regularity. There's even a Wikipedia page with the list of RORO vessel accidents. I still remember the Tricolor in 2002 that went down with 3000 vehicles including BMWs, Volvos and Saabs. It's been three years since the last one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ssel_accidents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ssel_accidents
03-20-2019, 08:42 AM
#12
AudiWorld Super User
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/01/03/...ssan-vehicles/
03-20-2019, 09:51 AM
#13
AudiWorld Super User
Good will isn't in play on this one. Fear of breach of contract law suits and bad publicity is. Owners want the car they contracted for and dealers make a healthy profit on Porche sales. Owners and dealers would bring suit. Media would play up how Porsche doesn't care about Porsche fanatics. Better just to bite the bullet and produce a few more cars even if it incurs a loss. Customers is happy and Porsche is a hero.. It's a cynical look at this but big corporations do nothing out of good will.
Big corporations will occasionally do something out of goodwill, most typically if the goodwill can be leveraged. Something Porsche's PR department has been doing over their knocking up an extra 4 cars, which seems to have garnered more press than the ship did when it caught on fire and sank.
03-20-2019, 11:26 AM
#14
AudiWorld Senior Member
The good companies try to please their customers... yea it's for profit but that's why you pay them lots of money, because you want to be pleased by their products and customer care in exchange. I don't know if this type of exchange requires you to be cynical about it, it's just another transaction like the countless ones we make every day. I'm nice to my customers too, and I expect to get paid on time.
03-20-2019, 03:39 PM
#15
AudiWorld Super User
Thread Starter
I doubt there's much of a loss.
Good will isn't in play on this one. Fear of breach of contract law suits and bad publicity is. Owners want the car they contracted for and dealers make a healthy profit on Porche sales. Owners and dealers would bring suit. Media would play up how Porsche doesn't care about Porsche fanatics. Better just to bite the bullet and produce a few more cars even if it incurs a loss. Customers is happy and Porsche is a hero.. It's a cynical look at this but big corporations do nothing out of good will.
03-21-2019, 06:01 AM
#16
AudiWorld Member
Whatever Porsche does for their Brazilian customers, I assure you it will be much more than what Audi does for their dealers and customers.
It has been suggested that a rogue submarine had a part in this disaster.
It has been suggested that a rogue submarine had a part in this disaster.