Most Porsche Cayennes in Greece

26th November 2011

Take a guess, which city tops the global list of per capita ownership of Porsche Cayennes ? This is arguably the 100.000 Dollar question, since the startling purchase price of the Porsche SUV would lead you to think it’s Los Angeles, London.

No, the highest number of Cayennes per capita are found in Larissa, a sleepy farmers town of 250.000 inhabitants close to Thessaloniki in GREECE.

Larissa “is the talk of the town in Stuttgart, the cradle of the German automobile industry, and, particularly, in the Porsche headquarters there”, since it “tops the list, world-wide, for the per-capita ownership of Porsche Cayennes”.

The proliferation of Cayennes is a curiosity, given that farming is not a flourishing sector in Greece, where agricultural output generates a mere 3.2 percent of GNP in 2009 (down from 6.65 percent in 2000) and transfers and subsidies from the European Commission provide roughly half of the nation’s agricultural income.

A couple of years ago, there were more Cayennes circulating in Greece than individuals who declared and paid taxes on an annual income of more than 50,000 euros.