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Originally Posted by Ernest72
Up next: Porsche teams with Subaru to create entry level Cayman for 35k. I can be the some dude on a forum that said it. Now if someone better than me at photoshop can make a spy shot. We can read about it in a couple of months from now and have a laugh.
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That just reminds me of some history. Before Photoshop and widespread internet, Toyota
did help Porsche in the 90s improve their practices to be able to manufacture their cars cheaper and faster, and waste less time with finding their parts and assembling the cars. It prevented the company from going under when all they really were doing at the time was offering a dozen different iterations of the 911 and couldn't even crank out the few they were making fast enough. This created the opportunity to produce the Boxster. Having an entry level ($40k in 1997) Porsche brought the company back from the brink, and the Boxster's success eventually generated the Cayman, arguably the best car they have made even if they purposely hamstring it so it doesn't outdo the 911.
Porsche also provided Subaru with the same VVT tech they used on their engines for Subaru's H-6 engines around the turn of the century, so this kind of stuff happens quite a bit more than we realize in the background, and with good results for us to enjoy. It's not to the extent of making 86-priced Caymans, of course (I wouldn't complain if it was, though), but I can appreciate one company going to the other to use and improve on their "wheel" rather than spend the kind of money and time it takes these days to reinvent it just so they can say they made their own.