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- 🟠 Why people stopped buying Porsches
🟠 Why people stopped buying Porsches
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☕️ Good morning, friends,
A Japanese truck driver experienced the craziest twist of his life at age 60:
He was switched at birth — and actually comes from a wealthy family in Tokyo.
A DNA test brought the truth to light, and the hospital was ordered to pay around 250,000 USD in compensation.
Will he buy himself a shiny new truck with it? We’ll see…
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📉 –95,9%: Porsche in Free Fall

Porsche reports its first quarterly loss since going public.
The reasons: an expensive EV strategy shift, weak demand in China, and U.S. tariffs. Management expects a recovery starting in 2026.
“We expect 2025 to be the trough.”
The Details
🚦 From 4,000 to 40: Porsche swung to a €966 million operating loss in Q3 – the first …