Hi, The best cars in the world are made in Japan so all the better for Porsche owners, if you can't beat them join them and stop kidding yourselves the Germans understood that wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy back in the early 90's after building the crappy 968 with the 5/16 gapped body panels :p
I'd start worrying if they ever start building cars in Mexico :eek:
My car was built in Germany and i never had any major problems yet :)

My recollections are regarding the 986 are:

1) All US Boxsters were produced in Finland. Porsche kept the "Stuttgart" produced ones for the home market, and perhaps for some euro countries where there was more "stigma" about where a Porsche was made (they learned from the 914 ;) )

2) The 5spd box is an Audi design, built by AISIN (japanese)

3) The 6pd box is a Getrag built box (in Germany)

4) All MOTORS were built/assembled in Germany and shipped to the factories for final assembly into the cars.

For the 987/997 series (really, any new porsche coming forward) will have components (sub components) built wherever the quality and price points can be achieved.. Eastern Europe, Japan, Germany, the US it doesn't matter. Weideking has made Porsche cars profitable by cutting through the "germaness" of the car, but still has protected and improved the Brand: Porsche.

All US 986/9987 Boxsters are not made in Finland. Just look at the 2005 987 sticker in my first picture. We also have local 986 Boxsters made in Germany.

I am on a German message board and the Germans also buy the Boxsters made in Finland.

I'll bet your life the Japanese company AISIN never made a Boxster transmission.

Wiedeking is a clever guy. He gets 0.9 percent of the profits according to this article, since he could not get stock in the company.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,522480,00.html

And here is the VW deal.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/business/23porsche.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

To be rigorous, we should begin by asking where the final car is assembled and by whom? A Porsche employee or no?

Then you would have to follow the parts sourcing, likely all over the world.

To me, if Porsche has their name on the title, the car is a Porsche, for better or for worse.

If the car is a hit, Porsche wins.

If the car is a turd, they lose.

That is life in the Global Economy.

:D

Well, after ordering a new Boxster today, I was told that the car is coming from Germany, or at least the engine and most of the parts. But I got the impression the whole thing is going to be shipped from Germany.

As near as we can tell, the point of origin makes little difference. We think you new Box experience will be great.

Best of luck/

:D

What dictates one car being made in Stuttgart versus Finland is a simple matter of production capacity. There is no difference other than that Porsche had more orders for Boxsters than they could produce at Stuttgart. No mystery here.

The cars made in Finland are sent to Porsche in Germany, then Porsche puts various models together on das boot.

You will not know where it was made until your dealership gives you the VIN.

At least his is the way it was over the years.