{"id":243584,"date":"2010-01-28T19:40:43","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T00:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/?p=49874"},"modified":"2010-01-28T19:40:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T00:40:43","slug":"vw-chairman-confirms-smaller-porsche-sports-car-and-suv%e2%80%a6-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/243584","title":{"rendered":"VW chairman confirms smaller Porsche sports car and SUV\u2026 almost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/porsche_boxster_wide_main_a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>AutoCar <\/em>at the 2010 Car of Year Award event held for the new Polo, Volkswagen AG chairman Martin Winterkorn confirmed that the automaker is considering a smaller Porsche sports car and a smaller SUV.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Porsche model range is firmly based on the 911, Boxster, Cayenne and Cayman, and it will stay that way,&#8221; said Winterkorn. &#8220;We are also investigating opportunities for a smaller sports car and a smaller SUV &#8211; but I cannot say more at the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-49874\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When asked how likely it is those two new models will make it to production, Winterkorn said:\u00a0&#8221;Let\u2019s just say we do not usually waste our effort\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egmcartech.com\/2009\/10\/29\/porsche-working-on-entry-level-4-banger-model\/\">We&#8217;ve previously heard rumors of a new entry-level Porsche<\/a> that will share components from the upcoming compact Audi R4 sports car. While Audi&#8217;s R4 is slated for a 2011 debut, the Porsche version will not arrive until 2012.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; By: Omar Rana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/News\/NewsArticle\/AllCars\/247060\/\">AutoCar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bnIK6mUQ3XFzSU9cevuVrrsdpK0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bnIK6mUQ3XFzSU9cevuVrrsdpK0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bnIK6mUQ3XFzSU9cevuVrrsdpK0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bnIK6mUQ3XFzSU9cevuVrrsdpK0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=dlemkSSUAmA:qMsW4kymJlY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=dlemkSSUAmA:qMsW4kymJlY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=dlemkSSUAmA:qMsW4kymJlY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=dlemkSSUAmA:qMsW4kymJlY:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?i=dlemkSSUAmA:qMsW4kymJlY:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=dlemkSSUAmA:qMsW4kymJlY:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?a=dlemkSSUAmA:qMsW4kymJlY:TzevzKxY174\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/egmcartech?d=TzevzKxY174\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to AutoCar at the 2010 Car of Year Award event held for the new Polo, Volkswagen AG chairman Martin Winterkorn confirmed that the automaker is considering a smaller Porsche sports car and a smaller SUV. &#8220;The Porsche model range is firmly based on the 911, Boxster, Cayenne and Cayman, and it will stay that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}