And in other Porsche news:

[www.ft.com]

Glad i got my 2009, pre-VW 997. But, that being said, very few cars are built in their homeland these days--Benz, BMW, Toyota, VW, etc. Heck, my wife's siblings from the mid-west used to give me a hard time when I brought a Camry some 20 years or so ago. Couldn't believe I was drivig a foreign car. Well, their "American" minivans were built in Canada whle my Camry was built in Kentucky. Shut them up, pretty quick.

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the Avalon had the highest US content of any car sold in the US. 84% The ford and GM cars I was looking at weren't even assembled in the US. And the car I traded in to enable my first Boxster purchase had a US corporate nameplate, was made outside the us and its motor came from Japan. Go figure.

You can't tell the value to a country's economy by the badge on the trunk lid.

Someone at the paper forgot a small detail: the first 50 Porsches were built entirely in Austria.

Particularly the last paragraph of the section entitled, "The Anschluss." AustriaAnschluss