Mercedes Benz

Hint: it wasn’t the 911. Not even close. Porsche has released its sales report for August 2018, in which it acknowledges a year-over-year decline for the month. The primary reason for this? Cayenne SUVs selling out just before the completely redesigned generation arrives in showrooms next month. Interestingly, the Cayenne was not the month’s best-selling Porsche model in the US, not this year or last. What honor does that go to? The Macan. Last month, a total of 2,107 Macans were sold in the US. To compare, just 143 Cayennes left dealership lots (though there were fewer available to begin with). In the non-SUV realm, 560 Panameras, 388 718 Caymans and Boxsters, and 885 911s were sold for a grand total of 4,083 units. In August 2017, by comparison, a total of 4,709 Porsches were sold in the US but, as Porsche already acknowledged, the drop can be attributed to the lack of Cayennes. But on the larger scale of things, overall 2018 sales are up by 3.7 percent compare...