In my previous post I looked at Porsche and the Porsche plants in Zuffenhausen near Stuttgart and the plant in Leipzig. In this post I will go deeper and look at three final assembly lines in these two plants. In Zuffenhausen I visited two final assembly lines, the 911 and 718, as well as the fully electric Taycan assembly line. In Leipzig, they have only one assembly line where they produce the Panamera and the Macan. Let’s go through them from the oldest (forty-year-old line for the 911 Zuffenhausen) to the intermediate (twenty-year-old line in Leipzig) to the latest (five-year old line for the Taycan in Zuffenhausen). Let’s go!
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The Grand Tour of German Automotive—Porsche Overview
Porsche is part of the Volkswagen group. Yet, this luxury sports car maker maintained its own style and the shop floor feels (and performs) different from the Volkswagen group. In this blog post, I will look deeper into the main plant in Zuffenhausen and the second manufacturing location in Germany, Leipzig. The next blog post looks in detail at three Porsche assembly lines, from the oldest to the newest. The oldest is the forty-year-old 911 & 718 Cayman line in Zuffenhausen; then the twenty-year-old line for the Panamera and Macan in Leipzig; and finally the line for the electric Taycan in Zuffenhausen from 2020.