Reports from earlier this week had VW’s upcoming U.S. factory possibly assembling the Porsche Cayenne SUV Stateside. On Thursday, Porsche spokesperson Albrecht Bamler denied the rumors.
Bamler reasoned suppliers for the Cayenne’s components are based in Europe, and shipping them over to the U.S. would not make sense. He also cited currency hedging the automaker maintains until 2013 as the reason the weak U.S. dollar is not driving the decision to move production of Porsche’s first and only SUV.
The reports had the next-generation Cayenne, due out in 2015, built at VW’s U.S. plant, which is too far into the future to comment on, Bamler said.
VW Touareg, Audi Q7 and Porsche Cayenne bodies are made in Bratislava, Slovakia, and then shipped elsewhere for final assembly. In the Cayenne’s case, it is Leipzig, Germany.
VW is expected to announce the location of its U.S. plant before July 24, at which point it commences a three-week summer break.
05/15, 9:51 AM
posted by:
xyunya
Who would thought 20 years ago that 2 East Block countries can build a working Porsche? Bratislava and Leipzig were in East Europe under Soviet regime. It is not exactly 911, but still better then Drabant.
05/15, 10:04 AM
posted by:
mr.meanpants
Please build a Cayenne factory in the US. I want to throw rocks at the building.
05/15, 11:00 AM
posted by:
moto-racer13
smart move for Porsche. Everyone knows American assembly line workers are lazy, greedy, and sloppy. Porsche see’s how crappy the American made Benze is, so they don’t want Porsche to be known as the cheap American made car.
05/15, 1:24 PM
posted by:
xyunya
moto-racer13, American build Honda are not any worse then their Japanese counterpart and much better then those build in UK. American workers are extremely creative and productive, given an opportunity. Toyota, Honda, Subaru, Nissan, BMW know how to provide opportunity, domestics not so much. If you’ve seen workers from former Soviet block you would be shocked as I am that Porsche build anything there. But they do a good job for Porsche. M-B quality problems even in Germany 5-6 years ago.
05/15, 1:36 PM
posted by:
mr.meanpants
My American built Subaru Legacy GT is severely lacking in the quality department as was my Impreza RS.
05/15, 4:56 PM
posted by:
xyunya
Actually I had a bad experience with Subaru and Mitsubishi and then learned that both are build in the same plant. By same token Honda produces highest quality cars and motorcycles in Ohio and Jeep produces the worse quality Jeeps in Ohio. Same state, I guess it is dependent on management and process. Look where Porsche build it’s cars.