Thoughts on 911
04/15/2015
No one would christen a car "911" these days. And it wasn't even the intention to call the new Porsche that in the mid-sixties.
At that time, the American emergency number (911) did not yet exist; it was introduced much later. Nor did the three numbers stand for a specific date in world history (pronounced nine eleven). That was again much later.
If the Porsche people had known this in the mid-sixties, when Peugeot forbade them to use the actually intended type designation "901", then they would certainly have used a different number, as there was enough choice, even if there was no "0" in the middle, as Peugeot had secured this "0" for itself.
As thrifty people, the Swabians then probably came up with the idea of continuing to use the metal numerals that had already been produced and simply using the "1" twice. At least that's how the legend goes. But wouldn't it have been even cleverer and more economical to simply rotate the number and call the new Porsche "910"?
There was still a Porsche 910 later on, but it was a racing car and could have been named differently ...
We have just published a report on the classic Porsche 911 T 2.4 from 1972 . And this is just one of many articles on Zwischengas that deal with the Porsche phenomenon ...
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