Porsche will build the first prototypes of its new Panamera four door sports coupe this summer.

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Porsche Leipzig managing director Siegfried Bülow told the German press agency dpa, that everything is going to plan for the first cars to be built this summer before series production starts in April 2009.


Porsche expects to assemble around of the new cars a year. It will have invested around EUR150m in the model, and added around 600 new jobs.


Engines from Porsche in Stuttgart will be fitted to bodies supplied by Volkswagen’s Hannover plant.


Porsche already assembles the Cayenne (which shares parts with VW’s Touareg) at Leipzig. It has produced around 190,000 Cayennes since production started in 2002.

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A new assembly plant and logistics centre have been built in preparation for the Panamera and, by 2009, the plant should employ 1,000 workers.