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Originally Posted by you&me
To be fair, I agree with you that the Porsche brand carries more cachet than Audi (and BMW and Mercedes). Thinking out loud here - strangely, I can't think of another manufacturer that I'd lump in with Porsche; the other Germans aren't quite there, but then Porsche isn't quite at the level of Aston, Ferrari, Bentley, Lamborghini, etc.
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Maybe if you buy cars purely for status. Has Bentley
ever made a car as good as even just the current
base 911? Has it ever made a car even as good as the top model of
any generation of 911 this century? I'm struggling to think of anything that could even compete with a 996 TTS.
Aston at least has the manual v12 vantage S, which can't compete for handling but just as a matter of taste could be better than a 911 or GT4 for some enthusiasts, and I wouldn't roll my eyes at them. But there aren't a lot of other things AM has made that are in that conversation, and there are certainly many Porsches I would rather drive than any Aston. Which isn't a slight against Aston, because they are very nice, we're just in the "best of the best" conversation here.
Lambo and Ferrari are reasonable to put on that next level, with the commensurate price increase obviously... They certainly make cars that are better than most things Porsche makes. But as noted, the 918 is in the conversation with both of them, and frankly a GT3RS is, too, just for pure performance. I think everything being equal most enthusiasts would rather be driving a Huracan Performante than any 911, unless you're a manual snob, which you probably should be. The long and short of it is that even though you'd put those two companies above Porsche it's not like there's a massive gap.