I read somewhere that Cayennes are all made in Slovakia and not in Germany Porsche plants. Is this true? How does that make you feel as a buyer that it is made in a some joint Audi/VW plant? Does it take away the appeal just a bit? For me the luster would not be same as "Made in Germany"

I understand they need to cut costs and pass the savings onto consumers but we are essentially driving a hybrid of the Touareg and Q7 platforms.

 

No not true
Cayenne Body shop only is in Bratislava Slovakia
they carry it to Leipzig to complete production so cayenne is 20% Slovakian and 80% German
sorry for my weak English

 

This is also the reason you cannot custom color a Cayenne, because the bodies are already painted when the get the Germany.

 

I would think that the body would not be painted and finished at transport. Think about all the possibilities for paint/body damage in transport. Ferrari does a similar thing with their vehicles. The bodies are made off site and then transported to the main factory for complete assembly. Painting, I would assume be similar, would occur at the main plant nearer to complete assembly.

J

 

The bodies do come prepainted from the VW/Porsche facility in Slovakia, again that is why the Cayenne is the only Porsche you cannot do a custom color on. As for damage, have you have seen Audis in transit, they look to be pretty we'll wrapped up, the only damage would involve a accident as bodies falling off transports possibly, but in that case painted or not, they would probably be scrapped.

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/porsch...ne-history.htm

That is how the they have kept the Cayenne cost down, if it wasn't for the shared platform with the Toureg and the the co production of the body at the VW plant, a Cayenne S would start off as a base $90k+ vehicle.