How Many 914s Were Made?, Including The Six & 916. Options

[windforfun]

Just curious. I would like to know this before I sell mine. How many do you suggest are still on the road?

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[SirAndy]

Just curious. I would like to know this before I sell mine. How many do you suggest are still on the road?

http://www.914world.com/specs/productionnumbers.php
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[fixer34]

Not that I'm questioning this, but I swear I've seen numerous articles that said there were over 300,000 made in total??

As for how many are still on the road (not on permanent jackstands..), I'm thinking 10% would be generous.

[Van B]

You should consider sources...

But, your other question is one I've thought about too.

[mb911]

Not that I'm questioning this, but I swear I've seen numerous articles that said there were over 300,000 made in total??

As for how many are still on the road (not on permanent jackstands..), I'm thinking 10% would be generous.

300,000 914-6s umm no

[brant]

I’ve only seen the slightly over 100k number
But consistently I’ve seen this number since the 1980s

[mepstein]

Not that I'm questioning this, but I swear I've seen numerous articles that said there were over 300,000 made in total??

As for how many are still on the road (not on permanent jackstands..), I'm thinking 10% would be generous.

I’ve only ever seen ~ 120k made.

[sixaddict]

3300 sixes number goes something like 2700 1970/ majority of remainder 71 and a few. 72
Forget exact but will look up and correct
Here it is
2668/443/240 (3351) per The Porsche Book Lothar Boschen/Juergen Barth

[sixaddict]

Standard 4 115,597
Six 3318
Special factory 12
According to Brian Long book
As you see numbers vary

[Superhawk996]

As for how many are still on the road (not on permanent jackstands..), I'm thinking 10% would be generous.

Porsche likes to claim a very high percentage (like 70%) of cars still on the road. I think they exaggerate but I’m sure they count cars registered, in storage, etc. I’m sure this is also an average that is highly skewed by the large number of 924, 944, 911, 928, Boxters, etc.



I do think the number is higher than 10% though. I base that off the number of registered users here on World (yeah not all are still alive) and the activity in Faceplant, Bird Forum, other Porsche sites and the random sampling I see on the road.

A 914 /4 certainly isn’t rare to the extent they would be if only 10,000 (the 10% number) or so were still on the road world wide.

[fixer34]

Not that I'm questioning this, but I swear I've seen numerous articles that said there were over 300,000 made in total??

As for how many are still on the road (not on permanent jackstands..), I'm thinking 10% would be generous.

I’ve only ever seen ~ 120k made.

Ok, the brain cell retrieval isn't what it used to be...
Being that I have a factory -6, I did remember that number was in the 3330 to 3350 range.

How many are drivable/registered/on the road could be up for discussion.

Answering the OP's comment about selling, "condition, condition, condition"

[bkrantz]

My guess is that 10% (for cars still on the road) is too low, but 70% is too high--unless "on the road" means anything with at least 3 wheels and not crushed.

[wonkipop]

far as i am concerned they never made enough.

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i think there would not be 70% of 914s existing. let alone on road.
i seriously doubt that claim for the other models as well.
porsche just say it.
proper academics would cite the sources.
ie current international road registration figures.

verdict a wild claim i think.

i reckon be lucky if 25% of 914s survive in anything remotely resembling driveable condition.

i do remember i saw them nearly every second/third day in chicago in 88-91.
bet its not like that now.

you never see them in australia of course. never.
not unless i get mine out on sunday mornings.

[mb911]

Well I think as I have personally parted at least 10 myself and owned 3 I would guess 30% are still road worthy

[flipb]

I'm a believer in "chainsaw math"

There are 14,861 cars in the 914World VIN registry. 1,034 of them are notated as dead/crushed/parted. That gets you to 13,827 remaining.

I'm going to assume at least 10% (my gut would be more like 20%) of those are either parted out since their VIN listing, or will otherwise never see daylight again. Based on that, we're at around 12,400.

I'd generously venture that at least half the surviving 914s are in the registry here. So that would suggest around 25,000 still existing. That would be a bit over 20% of the original production. That feels like a reasonable ballpark to me.

[dr914@autoatlanta.com]

thanks to the current popularity of the 914 the percentage is gaining. I know that around 50 percent remain just looking at our current 914 customer files

[windforfun]

60K customers? Wow.

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[gereed75]

Interesting thoughts in this thread and I am sure that George’s numbers have some validity. It would take a more in-depth look at that data though to say that AA’s 60,000 name customer base represents 50% of the VINs produced. I would venture a guess that a few of those customers worked on more than one car and also that in many cases any one car had more than one customer work on it.

I have never really thought of the number of 914’s total, but I have given some thought on the number of sixes that might be left. Here is a thread that has some numbers in it based on some limited research for sixes.

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...300107&st=0

I think estimates in that thread have some basis and might be pretty close.

[windforfun]

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Intelligent people here. Thank you.

[davehg]

All I know is that I rarely see 914s where I live in the PNW. Most younger folks have little idea what it is. Seems like Gex X and older know them. At Porsche event you see maybe 2-3 for every 25 911s