cabrio993

Good one!

Chuck W.

The White 993s were in fact handmade. This fact, as well as the fact that they got the strongest engines, are well known facts. Ask any white 993 owner.

DocTock993

As far as I know, the German workers who manned the machines that made our machines had hands.
Also, the workers who assembled portions of the car, by hand, had hands.

As Porsche is an equal opportunity employer, they may have hired someone who did not have hands. Would that then mean that the car was not "hand-made"?

David Ray

Did you guys hear Gretel died shortly after Hansel. It was really sad, she used to clear coat the cars that Hans built. Porsche replaced Gretel with a MACHINE! Go figure.

cabrio993

Wasn't Gretel the one that took 14 hours to stitch each cabriolet top by hand? Or was that Gretchen?

I know for a fact that there was at least one hungarian midget working at the assembly line. He was the one that installed the Cab controller underneath the dash. He was later promoted to install spark plug #12 on each hand made engine.

hddude

The S models are not hand made but the other 993's including all Cabs are 100% hand made and the personal touch is reflected in their superior reliability and performance. I notice you own an S model, unfortunately.

Steve 96C4S

Man, you guys are a trip. Glad I'm not a noobie wanting the specific answer to the original question.

I don't feel like searching, but I'm guessing, our cars aren't quite as handmade as the Porsche posters in my garage suggest?

Wait, forget it... I'm not sure I can take any more RL sarcasm after the day I've just had .

So... I never posted this ... carry on with the jokes.

Steve R

David in LA

Does "hand-made" mean that only one hand was used? Wouldn't this be very difficult to do? I can't even eat with just one hand! What if you use both of your hands? Or if it was one or both of your hands along with a few pairs belonging to co-workers?

David Ray

Steve - 1978 posts!! - you knew you were going to get "the good, the bad and the ugly" (and all flavors of popcorn since Orville)! And you know, Orville work on the assembly line until 1997 (I believe Excellence was Expected has him torqueing lug nuts) .....

Then he invented emoticons!!! and the rest is history!

What would we RL's do without him.

Are you sure you didn't mean, hand-maid-ens? u know alot of us 993 owners have plenty of "Handmaidens in Germany"!

Mike Murphy

I don't care if Grandma is doing the building or a robot. All I know is that these Porsches have incredibly high build quality.

Leander

You are one-hundred percent totally wrong. Everyone knows they were metre made in Germany.

Peter R.

That because all your base are belong to US !

Peter R.

Rick Lee

Well, when I last toured the factory about 3 yrs. ago, they were making 997's by then. The only robots I saw were for installing the windshields. Oh, and there were the amazing little R2D2-like droids running around the factory floor delivering engine parts to the guys who assembled them. All the engine assembly was certainly done by hand. I saw it. I saw pallets of trannies too. And the Recaro seats were preloaded to arrive at the front of the stack when the car they belonged in got to that part of the assembly line. So, I'd imagine there was plenty less automation back when 993's were still in production.

pcar964

I'll sit this one out, thanks.

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all the women workers had 'man hands'