Really boring question- Is it the Porsche 911....

[Harji]

Pronounced Nine-One-One or is it supposed to be nine-eleven?

Everyone I know says nine eleven, but if it was any other model it usually is nine six eight, never nine sixty eight.


Beard strokers begin.

[mizx]

Neunelfer/Nine-Eleven

[Harji]

mizx said:

Neunelfer/Nine-Eleven

Does that go for the other models as well? 944/968 etc etc?

[Or888t]

I started to remember a few years back now that, people always used to say, 9-one-one.
then after "9/11" september 11th, twin towers. 2001.
People started to say 9- eleven. More.


I'm sure of it.
It's my little - perhaps crazy- theroy, anyway.

Edited by Or888t on Wednesday 2nd February 23:25

[mizx]

Harji said:

Does that go for the other models as well? 944/968 etc etc?

I'm not sure to be honest.





I used wikipedia

[Harji]

mizx said:

I'm not sure to be honest.





I used wikipedia

There I was thinking you were a Porsche expert

[BarnatosGhost]

its 9-11, but you make a good point.

Like www / world wide web, it is perhaps one of the few abbreviations that are actually longer than their origin?

[JohnnyRims]

Or888t said:

I started to remember a few years back now that, people always used to say, 9-one-one.
then after "9/11" september 11th, twin towers. 2001.
People started to say 9- eleven. More.


I'm sure of it.
It's my little - perhaps crazy- theroy, anyway.

Edited by Or888t on Wednesday 2nd February 23:25

Free advertising, innit.

[BarnatosGhost]

Harji said:

Does that go for the other models as well? 944/968 etc etc?

No, for some reason they are all known by three digits, even the 912.

But the 930 is a 9-30 as an exception.

[Harji]

BarnatosGhost said:

No, for some reason they are all known by three digits, even the 912.

But the 930 is a 9-30 as an exception.

Begs the question, why? it's very un-German like.

[BarnatosGhost]

Harji said:

Begs the question, why? it's very un-German like.

I don't think it's them. I think it's us.

[mizx]

I would think this is related to how the numbers can be written, someone that speaks good german could probably explain the "-er". My german is very rusty and my brain isn't working at all at the moment.

[HAB]

It's pronounced VW Beetle.

[slipstream 1985]

JohnnyRims said:

Free advertising, innit.

do you secretly suspect it was porsche that caused the whole 9-11?

[Haytch]

HAB said:

It's pronounced VW Beetle.

someone had to, although I don't agree.

[davepoth]

slipstream 1985 said:

do you secretly suspect it was porsche that caused the whole 9-11?

Forza Motorsport 3 would have us believe it was actually Peugeot.

[EDLT]

I call it a ninety one one.

[Harji]

EDLT said:

I call it a ninety one one.

Do you find yourself standing alone at 911 group meets?

[marcosgt]

I've called them Nine-Elevens since I was Nine or Eleven and that predates the incident in New York by a number of decades.

I've seen German TV where they called them Nine-Hundred and Elevens too.

I don't suppose it really matters.

M.

[Harji]

marcosgt said:

I've called them Nine-Elevens since I was Nine or Eleven and that predates the incident in New York by a number of decades.

I've seen German TV where they called them Nine-Hundred and Elevens too.

I don't suppose it really matters.

M.

Yes, but it's odd, I would have thought the Germans would have had a whole manual on the meaning and correct pronunciation, it's not like them to leave it open.