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Originally Posted by fxdp
i could understand the resistance to assembly line manufacturing based on the simplicity of the 911 - i cant think of an easier car to put together
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Originally Posted by fxdp
other than the gauges ).....what part of the car was "over engineered" ?
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Just because something is easy to understand, doesn’t at all mean it is easy to put together on an assembly line.
“Over-engineered” is a meaningless term. You are using it as if the goal of engineering is to make something complicated. Actually a well engineered design should include the ease of reliable and efficient assembly. Lots of parts on these cars are designed to function well but building them on an assembly line must have been an absolute pain in the a$$. In this respect, they are certainly not “over-engineered”, but not engineered well at all!!
I bet I could assemble a dozen small block chevys in the time it takes to build a 911 engine. I recently rebuilt a 964 hvac system, it is a monstrosity. Easily a hundred parts in it. The electric seat motors and switches are “simple”, but there sure are a lot of parts in there. The fuse panel on a 964 is another “simple” part that has about 200 parts in it. It goes on and on.
The labor on these cars must have been astronomical.