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june 05, 2018 - Porsche

Porsche - The road to perfection

A round-the-world trip? More like an endurance test! When employees from the Quality/Testing Department pack their suitcases, they are heading somewhere where it’s going to be painful at best. The conditions have to be extreme. Extreme heat, from dry conditions to tropical humidity. Extreme cold, from biting conditions to pervasive damp, and all conceivable temperature gradients and air moisture levels in between. And for these test drives, roads are not necessarily a given. Ultimately, the vehicles need to be put through their paces before they go into series production so that no defects subsequently come to light.

Testing in Spain

One of the testers is Alex Ernst, Head of Sports Car Testing. "Every prototype experiences each season twice,” he explains. The vehicles, which are prepared in the Weissach workshops in close collaboration with the relevant departments, undergo thorough testing during their first tour through the climate zones. Round two of the round-the-world trip is about ensuring that "everything works perfectly", as Ernst explains. Then, it is usually just a matter of clarifying details before series production starts. To kick things off, the test drivers load up an entire jumbo jet, with 911s next to Panameras, Boxsters and Cayennes. As a rule, there are ten vehicles per series on board. Teams of 20 to 25 employees per series, taken from all development departments, travel on behind, together with the project managers. Once on the ground, the vehicles cover around 800 kilometres each day, over two and a half weeks. An endurance test for man and machine.

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