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Porsche Opens Plant for Producing V8s
Let's face it: although downsizing and turbo-
charging are certainly the wave of the present
and future when it comes to the mainstream of
vehicles, there are still those for whom something
else is desired—and therefore required.
"Porsche stands for sporty high-performance
engines: from engine design to series production,"
says Oliver Blume, Chairman of the Executive
Board of Porsche AG. So Porsche has invested some
80-million Euro in a new production facility that's
located on its Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen site.
And the 400 employees at the 10,000-m
2
factory
will be producing approximately 200 V8s per day.
The initial application is the Porsche Panamera;
the engines will then go into "all Group brands"
at some point, with the "group" in question being
Volkswagen Group.
Porsche invested some 80-million Euro for a new V8 engine plant in Zuffenhausen,
the place where the company began more than 60 years ago.
Workstations can be individually
adjusted to make the tasks more
accessible for the workers.
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