[Leica] Re: Porsche and Leica

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 6:48 PM +1100 2/23/05, Rick Dykstra wrote:
>I should be careful about what I wish for.  Porsche was turned 
>around by quite radically changing its approach to design and 
>manufacturing and through appealing to what they described as the 
>'changing demands of it's customers'.  I.e., more comfort and 
>convenience, and more performance but not so raw please.
>
>So with Leica under Porsche's wing we would see the equivalent of 
>the dropping of the air cooled engine - M and R mounts dropped for 
>new designs that are better suited to digital, autofocus and image 
>stabilising.  The purists would scream for a very long time and 
>would look down early adopters of the new models, and would then go 
>out and buy them too, helping make Leica one of the most profitable 
>companies in Europe.   :-)
>
>What would the Leica equivalent of the Cayenne be?
>
>Rick.

What we saw the other day:

http://tinyurl.com/4p4p9

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