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      11-19-2013, 10:00 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by KingOfJericho View Post
You only need to look at sales of the VW Phaeton and Hyundai Equus/Genesis to see that most consumers do, in fact, care about the badge on the car. Nissan sold less GT-Rs in the whole of 2008 through 2012 that Porsche sold 911s in 2012 alone.
I get the point about badge snobbishness but re: the GT-R. Nissan can only make about 12K cars per year for the whole world iirc because the engine and transmission are assembled in a clean room and are very labour intensive.
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