Good news for the UK guys waiting for LEs. I'll be in a batch well after that I presume. . US spec will be significantly heavier I understand with extra airbags etc.

 

Great news! We're you able to take some pics of the fat ass 4C? Was there leather trim on the dash?
And I want the real, original 4C headlights

 

Noc pics unfortunaetly, would have been kiked out

Saw no leather dash....

But lots of 4C around that plant

12 a day come out majority standards... make the math....

 

Hi screensmoke,
at my Modena tour there was an us-version on the line.
And I am sure it had a leather dash and door cards.
We got very close and discussed with the tour guide.
Also there was the red stitching.

Perhaps an option??

 

wow ... that means that they will easily make their 3,500 a year target

 

assuming 5 day working week and 46 week year 12 per day = 2,760 per annum

 

Awesome screensmoke. Thanks for the "First Hand" info! ?
Now all we need is our cars!

 

They are shut down in August so it is even lower than that figure

 

smokescreen: Thanks for the update. I really appreciate it.

 

Production volume is 12 cars per day, but it can go up to 24 cars per day if needed.

 

That is theory, seeing the guys out there it did not seem like they could do it twice as fast

 

It wouldn't involve them working twice as fast. The takt time is 2250 seconds and it would stand. The doubling, which is already factored in, would involve a second shift on the main assembly line. Currently, they work on a single shift per day, 5 days per week.

 

Your takt time of 2250 seconds equates to almost 38minutes.

Alfa in a press release a while back said:

In this plant, innovation combines first of all with people's passion, which then translates into discipline and determination to succeed. The operator's touch adds value to the product, so much so that this plant's operating modes deviate from the "mass production" logics in favour of a decidedly more handicraft dimension. Suffice it to think that the minimum 'takt time' (the manufacturing speed needed to guarantee delivery) is of 20 minutes: this is an indicator of the plant distinctiveness as opposed to the "mass production plants" in which the shortest 'tackt time' is approximately of 50 seconds.


Now thats almost half the amount of time you quoted. Clearly Maserati is in no rush to build as many as they can then. Find it odd tho as there are a lot of orders on the books and still A LOT of LE owners that has not taken delivery.

 

I think they do not earn too much money on each car. Better then to have a waiting list to brag about...

 

Can I ask how you get a tour arranged as I'm keen to go myself.

 

it's part of your track day when you buy an LE

 

Blimey, you had a long way to travel then!

 

remind you of anything?

 

ROF LMAO

yeah my $CLE

Virul

 

My mother-in-law?