donberry

about as basic as you get here. So exactly what is my car. Am I driving a nine two eight or am I driving a nine twenty eight ?

Also, if you happen to know, is it a nine four four or a nine forty four ?

Thanks......

heinrich

nine twenty-eight, nine fourty-four. nine eleven. However I doubt anyone would frown on any way you want to say it since they are numbers :-) Actually, the correct way, puristically, would be nine hundred-and-twenty-eight .... let's not go there. The Carrera GT is a 9 Carrera GT. The 959 is a nine fifty-nine.

heinrich

Speaking of which ... the way people in the US and UK like to talk about S2 and S3? Not a factory designation at all faik .... Rather the pre-S4 32V was called S32 internally.

MBMB

Wouldn't that be "nine-hundred eight-and-twenty"?

Brett Matthews

"miz Christina drives a nine-four-four, saticfaction ooses from her pores"

A musical line from the tune "Boomtown".... I think.....

Does it matter? nahhhh, I say nine twenty eight.

Dave H.

9-5-9

Garth S

Once you pay the price of ownership, and have the scrapped knuckles that come with it - you are entitled to call it whatever you feel like!
Anyone who has one will understand, and anyone who hasn't never will.

signed: Nine Two Eight (on odd days)
Nine Twenty Eight ( on even days)

bcdavis

People usually call a 996 a nine nine six, not a nine ninety six...

But I have heard our cars called nine twenty eights for as long as I can remember...

Even Porsche's advertising used that term, did they not?

(I could be wrong)

SHRKBIT

Nine twenty-eight. (With a hyphen. )

2V4V

This is a linguistically interesting thread...

I have found that I tend to change the way I 'enumerate' 944/951 depending on context - ie, it's a nine-forty-four Turbo or a nine-five-one. An NA car is a nine-forty-four.

It's always a nine-twenty-eight. Sometimes I just do the last two numbers, like twenty eight, forty-four, fifty-one, or the two-eight, four-four,five-one.

Heinrich, I tend to go with Dave on the nine-five-nine.

Brett, I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers that tune. Not sure if that's good or not.

Curious if anyone else on the board morphs these dependant on context, or am I the only one here who adjusts to whatever seems 'right' in the sentence? (I know my friends morph this stuff, but they're all a bit off as well).

Greg

John Struthers

Garth,
Hear, Here!
Well said, well put.
The many American Indian Tribes in their various and sundry languages and sub-dialects are proported to have over seven-hundred spoken words describing the subtle differences in the color of 'blue sky' .
Rather than let, either, the Purist's, or, the American Indians decide for me I'll take the responsibility and the heat for hypens and pronounciation.

UKKid35

No And Yes. In fact the S2 was an official designation here in the UK, though S3 was not. The S2 was used to denote a car powered by M28.21 or M28.22

Also all Offical Porsche Centre employees I've spoken to have refered to them as Nine Two Eights, and most people I know call the other cars Nine Four Fours and Nine Elevens.

heinrich

Right. In the UK. And in South Africa there is no-one who says Porsch-e, it's a Porsh .... as opposed to the US. My reference is from every piece of audio I have ever heard from the Factory, English or German .... as stated, does it really matter :-)