Porsche, like each different large-scale producer, makes use of lots of robots to construct its automobiles. But it surely did not at all times was that method. For almost all of its existence, Porsche hand-built its machines the old school method. Let this home made video from an American visiting Germany in 1986 offer you a glance inside how Porsche constructed the 911 and the 928 practically 40 years in the past.
This video, printed to YouTube again in 2022, comes from person tasturbo86, who purchased a 911 Turbo new again within the day and selected the European supply choice. Meaning they obtained to fly to Germany to see their automobile for the primary time, and take a complimentary tour of Porsche’s services. And we get to tag alongside.
The video is almost 20 minutes of insider footage displaying the personnel-heavy manufacturing course of, from constructing flat-six and V8 engines to physique meeting, dyno testing, and extra. It is an enchanting have a look at how Porsche put collectively its automobiles utilizing principally individuals, not machines.
This course of carried by means of to the 993-generation 911 within the late Nineties. Whereas having a hand-made automobile made for promoting level at dealerships, the excessive prices related to this manufacturing methodology contributed to the corporate’s brush with chapter throughout that point. Within the swap to the 996-generation 911 and automobiles just like the Boxster and Cayenne, extra machines had been used, driving prices down.
