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Its been a month and I've only seen 3 cars added to 2019 numbers. This brings North America to a total of 954 cars (74 Canada, 880 USA). The last 3 cars to be added were a Racing Yellow, GT Silver and Carrera White Metallic. One thing I noticed was that my 2018 numbers were missing 12 cars so last month I had reported 285 cars; this is now 297 (dumb me).
I've added some interior numbers to show you how people are selecting interior color choices. I'll try and work on format later once I have more time...
Cam, once again, many thanks for your considerable contributions to the RL community. Outstanding stuff. A few comments on the data that most impress me:
-- First and foremost -- 305 PDK Carrera Ts. Just wow. So that leaves just over 600 Carrera Ts with a manual transmission in North America. This is really astounding. I know PDK is popular but if there is one option for the Carrera T that most closely approximates consensus among us enthusiasts it's that the Carrera T, arguably more than any other 911, needs to be specced with a stick and third pedal. Perhaps this observation gets back to what RLer white6speed was saying in the other T thread ("Looking for a Carrera T allocation") regarding dealers being clueless about the Carrera T and thus ordering unfortunate specs.
-- Only 81 cars with ceramic brakes.
-- Around a third of the cars (357) are optioned with rear axle steering.
-- Over 400 of these cars were specced with a sunroof (either standard or glass). So not much more than half of NA Carrera Ts are slicktop.
-- I'm not sure I understand the wheel data. 39 Carrera Ts with 20" Carrera S Wheels in Titanium Grey? These are the standard and most popular wheels, how can this be? Is this because the standard wheels only come up as a listed option on small portion of builds?
Cam, once again, many thanks for your considerable contributions to the RL community. Outstanding stuff. A few comments on the data that most impress me:
-- First and foremost -- 305 PDK Carrera Ts. Just wow. So that leaves just over 600 Carrera Ts with a manual transmission in North America. This is really astounding. I know PDK is popular but if there is one option for the Carrera T that most closely approximates consensus among us enthusiasts it's that the Carrera T, arguably more than any other 911, needs to be specced with a stick and third pedal. Perhaps this observation gets back to what RLer white6speed was saying in the other T thread ("Looking for a Carrera T allocation") regarding dealers being clueless about the Carrera T and thus ordering unfortunate specs.
-- Only 81 cars with ceramic brakes.
-- Around a third of the cars (357) are optioned with rear axle steering.
-- Over 400 of these cars were specced with a sunroof (either standard or glass). So not much more than half of NA Carrera Ts are slicktop.
-- I'm not sure I understand the wheel data. 39 Carrera Ts with 20" Carrera S Wheels in Titanium Grey? These are the standard and most popular wheels, how can this be? Is this because the standard wheels only come up as a listed option on small portion of builds?
Again, many thanks.
This is data taken directly from the Porsche build sheets. Now, we have seen some inconsistencies with how Porsche presents the data so I believe at some point they stopped putting down the wheels as an option (hence why such a small number).
We also see this with interior configuration presented on the build sheets... wording is inconsistent as well.
But this analysis is exactly why I wanted to present this data. Dealers misunderstood the car model, spec'd odds cars and this is why quite a few are sitting at dealers. I'm not surprised by the PDK number as a high take rate is also shown in ryanTT's GT3 numbers; people like PDK.
Really great job CamPorsche. Very interesting data.
And Lava Orange is the rarest of rare! And so few PCCBs, and only 14 with leather backed shells (XWK) - that was my final add-on. I hope it makes it on.
02-25-2019, 11:12 PM
