niner niner seven

i saw this last night and its worth a watch, about how the 911 is made - very very good

airs later today at 1pm eastern so set the recorders in case you havent seen it.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.co.../4545/Overview

s329

great series and certainly gives you a nice guide through where all our rides were born.
i was surprised when they said that the most popular colors were black, white and red. Perhaps its based on global sales, but I've never thought that white and red would be more popular than silver/grey...(at least in the Northeast)

f4 plt

Great program. I was stationed in Germany in the mid-70's and looked up the pictures I took of the factory then. WOW what a change. Everything was hand built back then and the cars moved on hand pushed carts. It looks, from the program that most of the old buildings are gone.

Alfaguy2

A very impressive programme - seen it several times. There is also an excellent one on Rolls Royce, Ferrari and Lamborghini.

The attention to detail shows in the quality of a finished 911.

Lamborghini in contrast had much less advanced production techniques as far as I could see.

tetzlafh

Saturday seemed to be Ultimate Factories day because they showed back-to-back shows of it. Chevy Volt, Camaro 2010, Porsche, RR, Lambo, Ferrari...very nice show and great look inside the other factories.

niner niner seven

i saw that as well. maybe cuz the base, free colors are those..?? but i would take all of them in a heartbeat.

niner niner seven

thank you for your service, true patriot

daddyscar

Anyone know if the dvd set includes the Porsche tour? On the NG website it doesn't list it separately. For $45 you get the set but it doesn't say which factories are covered. I don't get the NG channel and keep wishing I did when this show is brought up.

socalsteve

You can find it on the Internet...Either through Nat Geo, Hulu, whatever. If worse comes to worse, just dl it as a bit torrent.

f4 plt

My wife is checking but has not found specifically the Porsche factory DVD yet.

Clifton

I've been searching too and have not found it either. Nat-Geo does offer a box set of "Ultimate Factories" on their site, but the DVD set is from their first season and does not included the Porsche episode. Hopefully soon!!

daddyscar

Thanks guys. Hoping to watch on the big tv at home so the finding a dvd is a good route for me. Looks like there are two dvd sets, an older and newer one where the newer one has the BMW factory. I ordered this one from Amazon through a third party seller with 99% positive feedback for $34. Can't wait to see what's on it.

rickmdz

According to NG website, the 4 DVD's set has the following episodes:
* BMW
* Corvette
* Peterbilt
* Caterpillar
* Fire Truck
* Winnebago
* M-1 Tank
* John Deere
* UPS
* Budweiser
* Harley-Davidson

I don't see the Porsche episode anywhere...

daddyscar

Thanks, I looked on the NG website this morning and didn't see these details there or other sources I checked. I like having dvd's playing in the background while I'm working. This dvd set's perfect for it. Will have to watch the Porsche episode online for now.

daddyscar

Now I see it on the NG website clear as day. I was only on cup 1 of 2 coffee this morning. Just watched the paint sequence online too and will have more respect for their $1k+ color options.