No 24 Porsche Boxster: A smaller, cheaper sports car set struggling Porsche on the road to recovery

摘要

Around 20 years ago, Porsche's worried management asked Toyota if it could hire some of its former engineers, so that it could learn how cars were produced the lean Japanese way. And help was sorely needed. Price-inflating currency shifts were ripping the heart out of Porsche's North American sales. The 928 was dying, the 944 wasn't scoring the sales of its 924 predecessor, the 911 needed updating and huge sums had been blown on the ultimately unviable four-door 989 project Emergency action was needed, and that included understanding the secrets of Toyota's Kaizen manufacturing system if Porsche was to have a hope of turning efficient.