DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

So it's a nine-eleven, but a nine one two (I've heard the odd 'merican saying nine-twelve)

It's a nine four four, or nine one four, or a nine nine three, nine six eight, nine o four, nine one seven etc. I never hear three fifty six

but you never hear nine one one

why?

I hear a nine one one on occasion and a three fifty six every now and then... what I never hear is " Look at that, it's a Porsche nine hundred and eleven", or, " that three hundred and fifty six is a lovely car"

Maybe breaking the nomenclature down as we do gives it a sense of the technical ?

Conveys to others the impression of knowing what we're talking about ??

It's very early to think about things like this.

Mike.

Tosh wrote:(I've heard the odd 'merican saying nine-twelve)

I call them nine-twelves

Do you have any 'Merican in you ?

Mike.

He's from Norfolk. It's the same thing

I'm a twelve and fourteen man too.

Not three fiddy-six though.

I have a three - five - six, but when talking to Mike Smith at PRS it's a three fifty six. Mine is a Texan car so he's probably right. Maybe it's three fifty six for the Stateside ones and something else for the others

for flavour flav fans...maybe its cos "nine one one is a joke"?

I call mine '9-twelve' & '9-fourteen' because it fits in with the '9-eleven' which most people use?

but i also say 3-5-6

The origin of 911 is 901 which no doubt you would have said 'nine oh one' so maybe it should be nine one one.

Regards
Mike

Mine's a "Nine Twelve" I used to say "Nine one two" but that's not right.

A bit early for such things, but we must all be deeply involved in this porsche game because 9- whatever, we can translate dead accurately what anyone is on about howsoever stated!

What about the god of all Porsches, the 917?

I've just said nine - seventeen in my mind typing it.

Maybe this 9eleven/9oh one is a particularly Gemanic way of going on. I suppose the nomenclature of the cars, like the cars themselves would be born in the drawing office. Are there any historical texts suggesting the 901 was always a `neun null ein` and not a `neunhundert und eins` ?

Mike.

in the drawing offices I worked in, each part number was read out as individual numbers ... although when talking about each series of designs, for example certain designs classed as the 900 series , you'd always refer to them as the 900's .... go to the file & search the 900 series drawings etc etc

But even then , that was fully down to how the individual engineers fancied callling them ,... so in other words, there is no right or wrong way

Personally, I refer to the 911 as a nine eleven, a 912 as a nine one two , a 356 as a three five six etc

also , 996 is nine nine six, not nine ninetysix

My father always refers to my car as a "Ninety one two"!!, We all know that's not right and he only does it to wind me up .