Planet 9

finally ordered a CS back in October! The wait is killing me, but I knew that would be the case when I ordered :-/
One thing that my dealer cannot find out for me is if the CS is being built in Finland or with Magna Stey in Austria. Anyone out there know whats going on?

From what I have read they are all coming out of Stuttgart now.
Maybe wrong on that but am pretty sure.
Either way the wait will be well worth it!
Welcome. To the Swamp!

Picked up my CS on 12/31. It lists Stuttgart as final assembly and 66% Germany and 3% US content. Not sure this answers your question, but I think this means, as my sales person had indicated, that they are building these in germany these days.

Others may have more information I'm sure....

Congratulations BTW!!!!

From what I am observing in the VINs and hearing from multiple sources, all Caymans produced after mid-year 2011 are made in Stuttgart. That is when the Finnish plant shut down production. The Austrian plant will begin production of the 981 series, not the 2012 987. Anyone heard different?

In Stuttgart! I hadn't even considered that, somehow I like the idea of assembly in Germany more.
I'm looking forward to my time in the Swamp
Thanks!

Looks like you will be getting one of the last Caymans from a relatively short production run in Stuttgart as I understand that 987 production has now ceased, with 981 production starting up late in 2012 ( in Austria).

Production transferred from Finland to Germany back in early May 2011 I understand. I ordered by CS around that time and when she arrived on 24 June I discovered that mine was one of the early ones out of Stuttgart.

With a short 6 month or so German production run, I wonder how many Caymans were produced? Maybe we could form an exclusive club lol

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2012 Cayman S
Meteor Grey, stone grey interior, PASM,
Sport Chrono, Short shifter, 18 inch S II wheels, parking sensors, nut behind the wheel.
Is this much fun legal?

Congrats. You're going to love it.

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sure thing!

Cayman S 987 120
BASE Cayman S
B4 Carrara White
B4 Carrara White
AT Black Full Leather Interior
25081 SeatStitchingDeviatingThread
25662 Stitching-DoorTrimDeviatThread
342 Heated Seats (Front)
220 Limit Slip Rear Different Lock
P4N Convenience Package
XSC Porsche Crest Emboss Headrest
267 Automatically Dimming Interior
268 Rain Sensor
288 Headlight Washers
573 Automatic Climate Control
603 Bi-Xenon Headlights incl.Porsc
605 Daytime Running Lights
P4W Infotainment Package - BOSE(R)
665 Porsche Communication Managema
672 Navigation Module for PCM
680 BOSE(R) Surround Sound System
686 SiriusXM(TM) Sat Radio Tuner
25664 Stitching-DashboardDeviatThrd
26241 Stch-dash DevClr, no-Instr Cov
541 Ventilated Seats (Front)

That might explain why it was so difficult to order one. Actually getting an allocation took about 2-3 months of being a tenacious s.o.b. It's a long story that I'll have to write up and share with everyone here.

Getting excited!

I went through the same pain! In the last week or so before delivery.

Agreed! The optimist sees the opportunity for an exclusive club. With all the pretentious snobbery of owning a car from "The Source". However, the pessimist may speculate there are issues in the product when tooling up a new production line for a vehicle not previously produced there. I'm going to choose to be an optimist!

I got my 2012 in Sept. Always wondered how many months the 2012 model year ran? And total number produced?

Looks like it'll be a terrific car. What color deviated stitching? White?

oops, sorry didn't notice that the stitching color wasn't in there. The deviated stitching is red, over back leather.

Nice! Might I suggest picking up a set of red seat belts. They can be sourced through suncoast and can be swapped out yourself.

wow, tons of good stuff on that site. Thanks for the resource!

Full leather - Now that's nice! Wish I had done that.....

Great looking car, look forward to the pictures

Thoughts of issues you had to overcome will fade very fast the first time you sit behind the wheel and turn that key...although we will of course be interested to hear about what happened if you are able to share your story.

Great spec (I almost went for white too) and just to echo other postings here look forward to some pictures.

Agree - always the optimist here also.

Car seems very solid and well screwed together - Seven months and 4998 miles later I'm please to say no problems so far other than:

1. I seem to have developed a car cleaning obsession (much to my neighbors amusement)
2. The local Petrol station I use seems to have moved from being 1 mile away to about 10, sometimes 15 miles away!
3. I'm always looking at the posts on this forum.

The same thoughts re possible issues about Stuttgart having to tool up for the Cayman did occur to me when I found out mine was born there. But maybe it wasn't such a big issue for Porsche as there was some degree of Boxster production there (cant remember the annual figure was; it was mentioned on National Geographic's Megafactories program that covered 911 production at Stuttgart - well worth a viewing) plus the engines were already being built at Stuttgart.

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2012 Cayman S
Meteor Grey, stone grey interior, PASM,
Sport Chrono, Short shifter, 18 inch S II wheels, parking sensors, nut behind the wheel.
Is this much fun legal?

Just received an email saying notifying me that production is now complete!

How long did it take for you cars to show up after production? I'm in California

Was a bit quicker being in the UK I would imagine I was told 8 to 10 weeks - Ordered on 3rd May, and my CS arrived in the UK around 15th June.

Funny story, and shows the delivery info system isn't so hot, I got a call on one particular day to say the car was about to be shipped over from Germany (would take about a week etc) then later the same day (or the next day I cant recall precisely) got a call to say it had just turned up at the show room! - a nice surprise indeed!

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2012 Cayman S
Meteor Grey, stone grey interior, PASM,
Sport Chrono, Short shifter, 18 inch S II wheels, parking sensors, nut behind the wheel.
Is this much fun legal?