Porsche Boxter created in Valmet
In 1998, Porsche found that if they wanted to sell more Boxsters, they needed to produce more cars. To do so, they contracted with a plant in Finland called Valmet because the plant in Zuffenhausen couldn’t handle the added creation.
The original strategy was for Boxster to be crafted in Finland for only two years. Everybody thought that by that time the demand in Zuffenhausen would diminish so that plant can take care of all manufacturing. But the Boxster demand is still high, and so does the one for 996, so versus all expectations the plant will remain hectic for the anticipatable future. Zuffenhausen can assemble 30,000 automobiles per year, so the only way the Boxster would be moved completely to Finland is if Porsche could sell the better part of that many 996s. In the short term, that isn’t likely to occur though. Nearly all of the cars bound for North America are made in Valmet.
Now it became helpless to make where a vehicle was made. Even ordering Tourist Delivery doesn’t force a Stuttgart build. Obviously some vehicles are shipped from Finland to Stuttgart for Tourist Delivery.
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