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Old 12-10-2006, 10:37 AM   #1
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70% hardtop kinda defets the purpose of a drop-dop, dont u think?
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Old 12-11-2006, 08:15 PM   #2
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70% hardtop kinda defets the purpose of a drop-dop, dont u think?
Ironically, I've never really cared for convertibles... I'm not a convertible guy... girls dig it when the weather is nice, so I've got that going for me! No one needs to see me when I'm out and about driving around. Besides, I'm so tired of signing autographs!
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Forget who told me this or where I read it but as MN points out the Finland builds have a much better record. I suspect like anything, the more you do it the more specialized you become and the less errors you make. They assemble allot of Boxsters.
But what I heard was that education levels/quality of assembly line workers in Finland were much better than those of the German assembly workers which include a high number of North African immigrant workers. Who knows if its true.

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if someone gave me a 997TT I would promptly sell it. I could get better sytiling and almost as much fun with 996 TT and have $65K left over for the piggy bank.
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Compare the interiors of that $130K car and your 987, almost identical. something wrong with that.
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Without seeing a lot of numbers and statistics held by Porsche I don't think you can accurately pick one over the other. Because of the much lower percentage of cars produced in Germany it would be easy to skew/misread the warranty figures. I would be more worried if there was valid information that correlated the powertrain warranty repairs between the two.

For example, if German made cars had a warranty issue for an out of adjustment top on 1000 cars it would be different than if 1000 cars in Finland came back for an engine repair.

This is unless MNBoxster's information was referring to major warranty repairs???
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The Valmet plant recently won a quality award for their production of the Boxster/Cayman. While not an indictment of the Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen plants, it would at least suggest that the Finns do a pretty good job.

The image is a re-post, as we had a similar conversation several months ago (which of course could be said of almost every post ).
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