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The best way to buy a Porsche is to order it through your local dealer, then fly to Stuttgart. Germany, and pick up your car at our factory. That way, you’d see how your Porsche is built. It would be quite an experience. Because you’d get a good insight into why Porsches are different from all other cars. If you can’t take time to visit our factory, you can see it through the eyes of a couple who did Their tour will help you to under- stand why a Porsche looks, feels and drives the way it does.

We build our fast Porsches very slowly. If you wanted to watch your Porsche being built, from beginning to end, you’d have to take a nine day vacation. That’s how long it takes to create a Porsche. Of course, we use modern production methods wherever possible, to enhance the economic value of a Porsche. But to make a Porsche the fine machine it is, we must work to much closer tolerances than you would find in an ordinary car. Precision tolerances. An absolute necessity for uncompromising performance, dependability, long life. There is no fast, easy way to achieve this standard. No machine can do it. It takes the highly skilled eyes, ears and fingertips of the master mechanic. His patient work takes time. And we allow that time to build a Porsche, knowing that it’s the only way our cars can live up to our expectations, and yours. Working to this standard, we are able to produce only 65 cars per day. Which gives us the smallest output of any production automobile manufacturer in the world. A record we’re proud of.

You’d know why if you saw our assembly line. It does not move like the usual mass-production assembly line, where workers perform one or two simple, repetitive functions day in and day out. Each worker is responsible for a fairly large portion of each And therefore, they put more of themselves into it. Because of the fine tolerances and precise way Porsches are put together, our men are not just assemblers, they are skilled craftsmen. Also, these craftsmen are faced with the challenge of knowing that many of the Porsches they build will go out to race. And when a Porsche wins an important race a frequent occurrence, they take justifiable pride in their contribution. Naturally, every Porsche is built with this same skill and pride. Isn’t it nice to know that your car was made by people who care?