Is there really any differrence?

[Tool Pants]

3 years ago when the 987/997 came out I spend a lot of time trying to get to the bottom of the German versus Japan issue. It was part of trivia on Renntech. You also have to deal with the manual versus automatic transmissions. And since then you have to deal with the Cayman.

Who mades what is still disputed by the public. You service advisor may not know.

I think all the transmissions are made in China. Then the drain plug is screwed in in Germany.

The Cayenne is easy. The automatic transmission is made by AISIN in Japan. Porsche got it because of the Touareg. Toyota owns part of AISIN and of course Lexus. The Cayenne transmission is also used by Lexus. I talked to a mechanic working on a Cayenne transmission and a part he needed could not be provided by Porsche. PCNA told him to buy the part at the Lexus dealership down the street....