Dougs951

How do you pronounce 951?

Sometimes I call it Das Turbo.

Chris White

I pronounce it "944 turbo"...

odb812

How do you pronounce 944?

Dougs951

nine fo fo.

roman944

nine four four turbo

or nine five one

and nine four four

Chris White

"Nine Forty Four"

I let the car do the rest of the talking – no need for me to say much.

MM951

It's either "my car" "the red car" or the "nine fourty four" for me. My lady friend calls it a f'ing Saturn and claims I drive like a dick and my car is too loud because she can hear me roll up. I have a 2.5" exhaust

toddk911

Depends on the audience I am talking to.

A Porsche person, usally Nine Five One. Non Porsche crowd I say Nine Forty Four Turbo.

99% of non Porsche people have no idea what a "951" is.

LUCKYJACKASS

Gundo

Good question.

Same as Nine Nine Seven

Nine Five One

alxdgr8

"Nine Four Four" usually, but I do use the occasional "Fourty Four"

odb812

does that mean a 911 is a nine one one?

manticore33

^^ I agree with ODB. I follow the convention set by the earlier cars where a 911 was pronounced "nine eleven", "nine twelve", "nine fourteen" and before that "three fifty-six." Likewise, Porsche used "nine forty-four" in their original commercials. Thus, I follow factory precedent.

Gundo

Thinking more about this, I suppose the difference is internal model designation versus actual model name.

Model Names
911 in Porsche marketing is nine eleven
914 - nine fourteen
944 - nine forty four
etc...

Internal designation
997 - nine nine seven. have never heard of it called a nine ninety seven...
987 - nine eight seven
986 - nine eight six
996 - nine nine six

951 was an internal designation. The model name was 944 Turbo.

Therefore, 951 - nine five one

Wow - this is way more time than I would have expected to spend thinking about this...

apitts73

the wife calls the 944...."gold digger" or " the mistress" or "the gold digging mistress"
i call it nine four four!!