Originally Posted by SVTto2JZ

Awesome stuff - thank you OP! Makes me appreciate my car just that much more.

Question - does anyone know the option code that distinguishes a car with leather in the frunk? My car is one of the only leather frunks I have seen but not sure if I have been able to track down a specific option that denotes that.
thanks
Kyle

Originally Posted by sdematt

Pics of the leather frunk?

Originally Posted by KPexEA

Awesome, thanks so much for working on this!

I found out my Orient Red Metallic 996 turbo (62 made) is the only Canadian one in that color.

Originally Posted by driftindaddy

I have an 2001 turbo Guards Red with some options you don't have listed. Let me know if you are interested in details VIN last 6 digits are 687307

Originally Posted by c041v_

A preview of the Cabriolet world, which has some marked differences from the coupes: There are a non-trivial number of what I will describe as "Dealer-ordered" cars. The exact spec for this car appears often, either in Arctic Silver or Black, always Tiptronic. It will highly skew the overall numbers and rarity of certain colours and options. I say "Dealer ordered", as the spec always includes the same options and the VIN's are sequential in blocks. No way a collector or individual buyer was ordering this many exact cars. You'll notice this happening a bit with the coupes, but nowhere near as much.

Originally Posted by c041v_

As some may know, I've had something of a little hobby over the past 7 months compiling the data for all North American 996 Turbos (and Turbo S'). I am nearly done, but the requests are outweighing my ability to respond effectively. I have attached the spreadsheet I have built along with a number of clarifications;

- The sheets are all effectively locked. There is some ability to enter 3 options for each year in the light green cells for any 3 options. (450 + X50 +XAF) for example. Everything else is locked as I have probably 150 hours into this exercise and I don't want people messing with it.
- I'm pretty decent with excel, but have not figured out a clean way to select iterative options to build out a car - keep in mind that the highest build sheet has something like 42 unique options, which makes for an unwieldy interface, 3 options is all anyone gets for now.
- The 2001 data is incomplete. Everything falls apart for the early VIN's and I still have another 800 potentials or so left to check. I wouldn't bother looking for anything prior to 686026 as it gets spotty. You'll see that I have some entries, but there's work to do. These missing cars could affect the statistics in a material way, at least for MY2001 cars.
- Grey cells are for VIN's with no data and what I surmise to generally (but not exclusively) be an unused VIN.
- Yellow, blue, orange or green cells on the Model Year VIN tabs mean that there is some issue with the data. It either has conflicting information or doesn't fit the Options criteria the way it should. Thankfully, there aren't many of these.
- The "Notes" tab is a brief summary of what I found as I was putting this together. There's some odd/neat quirks in the data.
- I will not disclose how I obtained the data, but I will say that if anyone has a more complete source, I'd love to see it.
- The "Stats" tab has everything summarized. Again, I need more excel knowledge to better categorize the Options UI, so for now, I have some limited data breakdowns.
- The "Opt. Stat" tab is a summary of the take rates and prices. It is important to understand what was offered each year as some options change names between model years, or are added/deleted.
- Not all colours are offered all years. I have this info in some hidden tabs from the Order Guides. For example, "Biarritz White" was only offered in MY 2001, and then "Carrara White" was offered for MY 2002+
- Cabriolets are a coming attraction.
- I may do 996 GT cars, but these are a bit more known in terms of the statistics and imports are changing the true numbers a bit.
- I'm not sure if a mod can allow this thread to be edited in terms of the attachment, I would like to take any feedback in this thread and make sure the latest version of the sheet is available for download.

Overall, I want to release this information here to not only answer questions I couldn't find any succinct or verified answers to, but to build on those answers. It is still incomplete and as one can see, I do audit a number of the cars with links in order to verify the correctness of the data, as something of a QC check. I will happily take requests to make the sheet more useable and add data if people have VIN's or relevant information. I was hoping to have more sales history and crashed car info, but a lot of the sites restrict that information. Unless someone wants to fund me to grab the reports, this is what I can easily find for free. I offer this information to the community as my way to paying it forward to those who have helped me. This data was a bear to collect and present, as I have combed just about every single thread and forum on the internet to find whatever I could related to 996 Turbo production. There were a number of Rennlist threads that helped me and a few other internet gems I discovered along the way, so thank you for that!