About every third Porsche is "Made in Saxony". Since then, the factory in Saxony has stood for pioneering automotive engineering.
More than , vehicles are manufactured by Porsche every year. This is about six times the production at the turn of the millennium. The increase is largely due to the Leipzig Plant. Compared to its competitors, Leipzig scored points not least with a trailer showing a large, open, and immediately usable piece of land near the airport.
Within three years, an ultramodern assembly plant was built there. Shortly after the production launch of the Cayenne, the team in Saxony excelled with another qualified and committed team performance right away.
In manufactory work, the employees produced a limited edition of the super sports car Carrera GT between and The first expansion towards this end had already been made immediately after the opening of the plant. The journey continued at the speed of a Porsche. Leipzig was able to prevail in the internal competition and brought additional model series to the site β initially, the sports sedan Panamera. The final assembly of the first generation started in For this purpose, the production was expanded, and a logistics center was built.
This was accompanied by the expansion of the existing assembly plant into a so-called full plant with its car body construction and paint shop units. For the complete manufacturing of the second generation of the Panamera starting in , the plant received in its fourth expansion phase a second car body construction unit and a quality center.
