What do the 9## mean?, Was there some madness to the numbering? Options

[Kerrys914]

Just curious (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/unsure.gif)

Why was the 911 call "911" and the 914 called "914" and the 944 called "944"...etc (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)

Hummm (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/dry.gif)

Cheers

[davep]

They are design numbers, essentially. Porsche started with #7, so their first customer would think they already had experience. They had experience, but as part of other companies.

When the 911 was introduced, as the 901, there was a shift away from purely sequential design numbers. This was at a time when Porsche and VW had some joint ventures. When you look at VW part numbers at the time, the 9xx series was not used so Porsche started fresh with the 900 series numbers. Now the 900 numbers are general parts common to a lot of designs, things like fasteners. The first model specific parts are the 901 and 902.

The next question will be what happens as they run out of 9xx numbers. They have been using model names extensively recently in order to get away from simple numbers.