Porsche immobilized thousands of Russian-registered & internet-connected vehicles
Here’s from Wionews, “Why hundreds of Porsches were mysteriously immobilised across Russia” (December 4th 2025):
Porsche owners across Russia have reported that their fancy sports car has become undrivable or ‘bricked’. Drivers in Moscow, Krasnodar and other cities have reported engine shutdown, fuel delivery blockades. Rolf, Russia’s largest dealership group, has reported the largest service request spike last week. It is reported by Moscow Times that the outage affects all potential Porsche vehicles and engines, and any vehicle could potentially lock itself. “It is possible that this was done on purpose,” said a Rolf executive.
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The affected vehicle uses a factory-installed satellite tracking system called PVTS or the Porsche Vehicle Tracking System. It was installed for all the models manufactured after 2013. When the connection is interrupted, the vehicle shuts itself down. […] The German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen Group has stopped supplying to Russia since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. But its Moscow-based companies could not be sold. Russian executives claim that this is a deliberate attempt to block the engine to create disruption. Last year, British lawmakers warned that Beijing could remotely shut down Chinese-made electric vehicles as bilateral relations soured.
Speculation is that the German automaker acted on EU orders. In 2022, the Trudeau government in Canada illegally froze bank accounts of political opponents without due process. It’s not difficult to imagine how they can now also disable internet-connected cars when you say something ‘offensive’ under their new censorship laws. The same can also be said of Brittain. And the same can be said of Tesla in the USA. Buying such a car, or any other device that needs to connect to the manufacturer to work, is a very bad idea.
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