Cars

I would like to travel to Germany and buy a porsche GT3 and drive on the autobhan then ship the car back to the states to drive here. What is the cheapest way to do this?

The criteria you have is going to make it difficult to cut costs. The car itself will need to be ordered from a US Dealer with the European Delivery option. You could plan to buy a car in Europe, but while you could save on the actual purchase price due to exchange rates and different pricing in some locales, you would far exceed this in trying to get your Euro car approved for us in the US. So, on the car side, you need to order a new car from a dealer and there will not be any options to really save money here.

Which means the primary spot where you could try and save would be on the travel expenses of getting yourself to and from Europe. The most likely route here would be to place the order for the GT3, and then shop around for the best travel prices and hotel prices for the period you’ll be in Europe to pick up the car. No real secret, just compare and buy as early as possible.

Though, you could take a gamble… if you were to wait until the last minute to book, you may luck into some very inexpensive options (if you sign up with any airlines to get notice of last minute specials, you’ll see European destinations and travel/hotel packages are common, if you can leave within a few days notice – often due to underbooked packages that they are now trying to fill up to make the most of their investment). But this is a gamble since you will not have much flexibility in getting the car. So if you were to gamble on this, you could save alot, but it would also be possible that you would instead pay alot more to secure a last minute fare (or worse, simply not be able to find an option for the time you need).

In the end, the difference between "cheap" and "normal" would come out to as much as one to two thousand dollars… which is not small, unless you consider that you are talking about $110K+ for the car, and a few thousand more per person in travel… and if you are going that far you will probably enjoy the whole experience more if you let loose with the purse strings and spend a little extra to make it a nice vacation.

In the world of the auto industry, there are brands that are accessible only to wealthy individuals. While most motorists dream of owning a luxury car, the prices of these dream machines put them beyond the reach of most consumers. That is why in choosing the best luxury brand in the United States, it is imperative that one should ask people who can actually afford them or who have been in and around such vehicles.

Recently, the Luxury Institute, an independent and impartial ratings and research institution known for specializing on gathering information on the preferences of high net worth consumers, undertook a survey to find out the best luxury brand. The results are in and for the third straight year, Porsche sits at the top of the list of the best luxury car brand today.

The Italian brand edged out other popular luxury car brand to take the top spot. Among its competition are Acura from Honda, Lexus from Toyota, and Infiniti from Nissan, German brands Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz. Other luxury brands are owned by Ford like Volvo Cars and Jaguar. According to the institute, the main reason why Porsche came out on top is its “consistently superior quality, exclusivity and uniqueness, measure of enhanced social status and its ability to make the client ‘feel special’ throughout the entire ownership experience.”

The respondents were also asked which luxury brands they will recommend or the brand of the next luxury car they will likely buy.

Peter Schwarzenbauer, the President and the Chief Executive Officer of Porsche Cars North America, is obviously thrilled after Porsche received the distinction. According to him: “Customer perception is everything in the luxury car market. This distinction helps us know that we are successfully delivering on our brand values in a very competitive automobile market.”

The United States auto market is one of the most competitive if not the most competitive market in the world and Porsche coming out with this distinction will surely boost the brand’s popularity among wealthy prospective car buyers. Aside from bringing to the table high level of performance, Porsche cars also offers reliability. While reliability is an integral part of Porsche cars, their performance can still be enhanced with aftermarket parts such as Stillen cold air intake systems.

In conducting the survey, the Luxury Institute facilitated an online survey of more than 1,600 Americans with an average income of $313,000 and a net worth of $3.3 million. Respondents of the online survey associate the brand Porsche with “power, style and excitement”, “value,” “elegance,” and “trust and respect”.

According to Milton Pedraza, the Chief Executive Officer of the Luxury Institute: “Wealthy consumers tell us that Porsche stays true to its core values and to its enthusiasts. porsche remains an automobile that never loses its way on the luxury highway, even at high speeds.”

Lauren Woods
http://www.articlesbase.com/automotive-articles/wealthy-consumers-named-porsche-top-luxury-brand-131267.html