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AUTOS: VW Plant To Build Porsches
Parent company will provide extra capacity for Boxsters and Caymans as needed.
Porsche introduced the 2013 Boxster at the Geneva Motor Show. (Photo: Porsche)
Porsche will call on its Volkswagen parent for additional capacity to build its 2013 Boxster and soon-to-be launched 2013 Cayman.
That additional capacity will come from Volkswagen’s plant in Osnabrueck, Germany, where more mundane models such as the Golf Convertible are built.
The Osnabrueck plant will only be used to build the Boxster and Cayman if capacity at Porsche’s main facilities in Zuffenhausen, Germany, is exceeded.
With the last-generation Boxster and Cayman models, Porsche used independent vehicle manufacturer Valmet for the extra capacity, though the contract ended last year.
Production of the new 2013 Boxster is scheduled to start in Zuffenhausen this fall and in Osnabrueck by the end of summer. Exact volumes are yet to be determined, though if past production is anything to go by, we should be seeing thousands of Boxsters built at both plants annually.
The Osnabrueck plant was originally acquired by Volkswagen in 2009 when its former owner, Wilhelm Karmann, went bankrupt, according to Ward’s Auto. Total capacity is about 100,000 vehicles per year.
This story originally appeared at Motor Authority.
That additional capacity will come from Volkswagen’s plant in Osnabrueck, Germany, where more mundane models such as the Golf Convertible are built.
The Osnabrueck plant will only be used to build the Boxster and Cayman if capacity at Porsche’s main facilities in Zuffenhausen, Germany, is exceeded.
With the last-generation Boxster and Cayman models, Porsche used independent vehicle manufacturer Valmet for the extra capacity, though the contract ended last year.
Production of the new 2013 Boxster is scheduled to start in Zuffenhausen this fall and in Osnabrueck by the end of summer. Exact volumes are yet to be determined, though if past production is anything to go by, we should be seeing thousands of Boxsters built at both plants annually.
The Osnabrueck plant was originally acquired by Volkswagen in 2009 when its former owner, Wilhelm Karmann, went bankrupt, according to Ward’s Auto. Total capacity is about 100,000 vehicles per year.
This story originally appeared at Motor Authority.
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