Why Porsche transferred the Cayenne from Leipzig to Bratislava
- Porsche (a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group) transferred the production of its top-of-the-range SUV, the Cayenne (E segment) from the German site in Leipzig to the Slovak site in Bratislava last year, when the new generation of the model was launched.
- One may wonder about the reasons for this unexpected transfer. First of all, it should be noted that the Leipzig site has a production capacity of 200,000 vehicles per year and the Bratislava site has a production capacity of 400,000 vehicles per year.
- In recent years, the Leipzig site has been close to saturation, while the Bratislava site was operating at 75% of its capacity in 2018 (compared to 82% in 2017, 80% in 2016 and 77% in 2015) and therefore had unused capacity.
- This situation of overcapacity in Bratislava and under capacity in Leipzig could explain the transfer of Cayenne from Leipzig to Bratislava. This transfer would also have been facilitated by the fact that the Volkswagen Touareg, Audi Q7 and Audi Q8 SUVs share the same MLB platform as the Porsche Cayenne.
- How is the Porsche Cayenne's production volume compared to these three SUVs that share its platform?
- In 2018, 75,000 Porsche Cayenne were produced, compared to 45,000 Touareg, 68,000 Q7 and 17,000 Q8. Despite its top-of-the-range positioning, even compared to a Touareg or a Q7, the Cayenne manages to do better than these two models and the upcoming launch of the coupé version of the Cayenne should further strengthen its position. All these large SUVs together accounted for 205,000 units produced in 2018, compared with 187,000 in 2017.
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