I can afford it. Generally I choose not to - I've never owned a Ferrari, for example. Been a passenger in them, always very impressed with the engineering and experience, but the MS suits me better - supercar acceleration, cargo space for all my rash eBay purchases, and space for 5 adults. Suits me fine even on high-days+holy-days.
I have paid cash for mine. Accountant thinks I'm nuts and that I should finance them.
Then there are those that will choose to "stretch" to something they can't quite afford. e.g. Me when younger ...
Different folks, different strokes, and all that.
But Porsche would already have baked the £20K "posh brakes" into the price - and the fact it had THOSE brakes would be a marketing-draw as well (as you said "
big brakes are aesthetically pleasing and give a vibe of something really special")
Are they really complete crapola? In spider graph above the bog standard brakes have same 70-0 MPH as BMW M5 (yeah, I expect inadequate for repeated use)
But its "might reach" surely? I have no intention of driving mine at 160 MPH "
'coz it can" - and certainly not to then repeatedly stand on the brakes. The vast majority of owners don't need that ability, so selling it as an option seems fine to me.
I disagree with that point. The brakes upgrade is needed for repeated stopping from high speed. IME that has very little to do with Launch ability. In all the launches I've done once underway I'm not then stopping ... and if I am its more likely a relaxed-slowdown and using regen.
If I was on a track that would be different
Uncle Chet (if you haven't seen it) put Ceramic Brakes on his Plaid, and didn't change the DOT brake fluid. That didn't go well, even though he wasn't pushing it (he was on a track but just doing some mucking about, not trying to set a lap record). Mine you, this was after he drove the thing under water (in case you haven't seen that either ...) so maybe the discs were rusty