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1974 911s "It smelled like German heaven" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ySt9SeZl9s |
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that's why I love the net, free porn!!!!
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like watching a toyota camry go together...i like my antique hand built Porsche.
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Of course, I also like the knowledge that my car was hand-crafted.
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Yeah, Just like that "ugly" girl in high school that no one would ever admit to "doing it" with, yet if the truth were known..... Nobody'd turn the new ones down!
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The price of a Porsche and the quality and pleather of a Nissan 350Z
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The price of a Porsche and the quality and pleather of a Nissan 350Z
My 76 930 and you can still smell the leather when you get into the car Bruce |
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Bruce, are you going to make it to Okturbofest?
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think about how costly it would be to build a 911 "by hand" today -- they'd be completely unaffordable
hand-crafted is a misnomer anyway - only the 356 was truly hand-crafted |
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awesome video...thanks.
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Recording Engineer, Administrator and Entrepeneur Designer of Fine Studios, Tube Amplifier Guru 1989 Porsche 911 Carrera Coupe 25th Anniversary Special Edition Middle Georgia |
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More "hand crafting" at Porsche would cut into their stellar profit margin. . .
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Wow...the Porsche factory reminds me of the BMW factory I visited in Spartanburg, SC last Christmas. While not as cool as hand assembly, the huge robots working in harmony and precision is quite amazing as well. It's much more cool in person than on TV...huge sections of car are swung around so fast, and the robots dance together as they do their work.
When did Porsche switch over to mostly robotic assembly? I always thought the '89 964 Carrera4 was the first model on the new automated robotic assembly line , but the 996 probably took it to a higher level. I like to think that my 993 was built by the last of the old-school craftsmen, but I suspect that robots had a big hand in building it. |
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hand assembly is a good phrase, I agree - they still do a lot of checking by hand
the big change was after they called in the consultants to Toyota for help in avoiding bankruptcy, so I suppose it was then (Boxster & 996) |
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Hand built is better? C'mon people, Man uses tools. A robot welder is just a tool. ...a highly developed one at that. Build and Set-up for that tool can be great or crap . . .Porsche or Kia.
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