Yep.pmg wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 3:44 pmI am in agreement with that. I just wanted to make the point that extension of Macan V6 ICE Macan EU sales may not be indefinite however much the market demand and EU7 or whatever implemented is likely to kill off new V6 ICE Macans before 2030.GeeRam wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 3:07 pmThere's still no confirmed timeline for EU7 though, EU wanted to bring it in in July 2025, but many of the manufacturers were lobbying against that because of the cost to existing development investment. If it is 2025, then likely Porsche will drop all ICE Macan's from order process by change-over to MY2025 next summer, to allow orders to be processed until following summer. If EU extends EU7 introduction then I'd say they'd extend ICE Macan production to suit.
It depends on whether the idiots in the EU bother to listen.
If I understand it, the EU7 proposals are quite old, and were being devised before the head long rush into the end of ICE by 2035, which will render EU7 rather pointless after that anyway, and manufacturers were tying to pint out that there's no point in investing in EU7 ICE technology for such a short life, so what's the point of bringing in EU7. If they bring in EU7, that will kill ICE only anyway as you say way before 2030 or 2035.
New car sales could be decimated if that happens......until all manufacturers convert fully to ICE for the European market at least (apart from Italy of course) as they will still be making ICE stuff for other markets......which will cause them production problems.
