Porsche Global Production By Model : 2016

Porsche is a small marque in numbers of cars made but being in a high price bracket enables it to be very profitable. Only Audi generates more profit in total but Porsche is well ahead in profit per car.

Some facts:

Production was up a modest 2.2% in 2016 to roughly 240,000 units.

However, profit was in excess of €16,000 per vehicle, an impressive amount to say the least. It's not as high as 2013 but better than the two years that followed. Operating profit was up by 13.9% and return on sales rose to 17.4% from 15.8% the previous year.

While you may associate the name with sports cars, over 70% of production is SUVs. The Macan is about 40% and the Cayenne around 30%. Sports cars are just under a quarter of the total.

China was the biggest market for sales with 65,246 (+12.5%) units finding homes. The US was second with 54,280 sales (+4.9%). Regionally China and Europe amount to 36% of the total sales each, with North America slightly over 26%.

15	16	Model	2016	%	+/-		2015	%
		Total	239,618		2.2%		234,497
1	1	Macan	97,177	40.6%	13%		86,016	36.7%
2	2	Cayenne	71,693	29.9%	-10%		79,700	34.0%
3	3	911	31,648	13.2%	1%		31,373	13.4%
4	4	Boxster/Cayman	24,882	10.4%	13%		21,978	9.4%
5	5	Panamera	14,218	5.9%	-6%		15,055	6.4%
6	-	918 Spyder	-		n/a		375	0.2%

Data source: VW Group.