Porsche Precision Quality Center – Video

This focus on quality is particularly evident in the brand-new Leipzig Quality Center (QC) — and not just because of the name. The roughly 6,000 square meter building opened in June. Investment: €15 million, plus furnishings. The center employs 150 staff, roughly 30 of whom were employed during the latest expansion. Particularly in the run-up to series production of new vehicles—like for the Panamera, the second generation of which will be manufactured in Leipzig and which celebrated its world premiere in late June—the Quality Center is a key prerequisite for enabling the highest degree of perfection from the outset.

Beyond design and technology, after all, customers also place great importance on fine craftsmanship, the feel of the car, the tangible quality of each element. This “sensual quality” is, alongside the emotional, the functional, and the service quality, a pillar of the Porsche quality philosophy—and one of the reasons that Porsche has claimed a perennial spot in the upper ranks of the renowned international quality rankings of the J.D. Power market research institute. This annual study involves surveying customers in the US and China in relation to the quality of their new vehicles. The Leipzig built Macan received the “Highest Initial Quality— Compact Premium SUV” distinction in its first year of full availability in 2015, and repeated this feat in 2016.