lazydays77

first off i did search for an answer here already, found a thread from a couple years ago and got all kinds of conflicting answers and then one guy insulted another and, well you guys know how a message board can get out of hand.

my question is what is the significance of 993, 996, 997, etc for the 911?

thanks for the help.

Trader220

Internal model codes for those gen 911'd

up to 1989 ... 911
89/12 to 94 ... 964
95-98 ... 993
99-04 996
05-08 ... 997.1
09-10 ... 997.2

lazydays77

didn't word my question correctly. how do they come up with it? why the jump from 64 to 93, then 93 to 96, etc.

Oldskewl

Because thats how the Germans roll.

Its like asking why did they call it a 911? And not a 592.

ked

they are internal project #s. Porsche (the Old Man) started using not-quite sequential design / engineering project type-#s w/ 7 in 1930. some have become common parlance in refering to popular cars, variants & their subsystem components (915 tranny).
{btw, there was no 592, but 593 was the 4sp box for the 356 in '53}

lazydays77

so basically its whatever the engineers are feeling the day the project starts. buddy told me the next one is 991 (for 2012) i believe. just something that i never gave much thought to and was kind of curious.

thanks

ron mcatee

Porsche model designation has evolved over the years. The range is from the first one in 1964, a 901, 904, 906, 908, 911, 912, 914, 916 (914 Chalon), 917, 923 (76 12E), 924, 928, 930, 931 (924 Turbo), 934 (race car), 935 (race car), 944, 951 (944 Turbo), 959, 962 (race car), 964 (89 4WD-94), 965 (964 Turbo), 968, 986 (boxster), 987, 993, 996, 997.

That's all I can recall from memory. They are a progression from previous models and are labeled to distinguished them from each other. In reality, due to evolution of the
911, the 901, 911, 930, 934, 935, 964, 964, 993, 996, and 997's are called 911's by many folks due to the shape of the body and history of the series.

ron mcatee

Forgot, the reason there is no 900 designation is that Saab already had that designation for their cars.

ked

"...so basically its whatever the engineers are feeling the day the project starts."
no, German engineering companies don't operate as you describe.
Ron, not exactly... the 901 designation was assigned in '63, well before the 900 series Saab was introduced. One must also appreciate that these are INTERNAL project #s, so the issue of commercial (public sale) use is only relevant IF Porsche determined to use a type # for that purpose as well. As it did w/ the 901 designation, wherein Peugeot pointed out they owned euro-wide car names w/ a 0 in the middle, thus Porsche added the 1 (or 10, to be precise).

rather than depend upon the incomplete expertise of us amateurs, one can read this...
http://www.bentleypublishers.com/his...-Expected.html

ricster

It started with Pugeot...had the 901 designation so Porsche was blocked from using the number and just started with the 911...and onward

ron mcatee

ked, thanks for correcting me. as I stated, I was doing it from memory.

theiceman

and as pointed out .. Porsche stopped building 911's after 89 ..

ked

Ron, I bet my memory is worse than yours - that's why I have all these damn books.
cheers!