Save your money.

A co-worker of mine who knows far more about cars than I do sent me a link to an Auto Week article about Porche’s latest SUV offering. You have to realize that when it comes to car news, I’m out-of-touch enough that I hadn’t realized that Porche made an SUV.

In addition to the sudden shock of education, there were two lines that really leaped out of the first paragraphs.

  1. “It’ll be powered by a lightly tuned version of Volkswagen?s 3.2-litre V6 engine?as used in the Golf R32, among other models?at the Frankfurt auto show next month.”
  2. “The current Porsche truck lineup is priced at $55,900 for the S and $88,900 for the Turbo.”

We did some poking around… The VW Golf R32 isn’t available in the US, but in Australia it’s selling for the equivalent of roughly $40,400 US dollars. So for the price of one high-end SUV, you could get a really nice hatchback and deck it out with nearly $50,000 in after-market features.

Or a second hatchback.

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