We had this debate about 996tt production numbers and I found this. I thought it may be useful to you guys:

993 turbo - world production:

Production from 1/94 to 7/94 (model year 1994):
Carrera - US/Can: 1453 ROW: 6412, Cabriolet - US/Can: 1224 ROW: 5850, Cup - worldwide: 100.

Production from 8/94 to 7/95 (model year 1995):
Carrera - US/Can: 4139 ROW: 7018, Cabriolet - US/Can: 3718 ROW: 2878, Turbo – worldwide: 78,
Cup - worldwide: 110, RS – worldwide: 274.

Production from 8/95 to 7/96 (model year 1996):
Carrera - US/Can: 3671 ROW: 6762, Cabriolet - US/Can: 2152 ROW: 2066, Targa - US/Can: 462 ROW: 1980, Turbo - US/Can: 1357 ROW: 2484, GT2 - worldwide: 202.

Production from 8/96 to 7/97 (model year 1997):
Carrera - US/Can: 4972 ROW: 5794, Cabriolet - US/Can: 2157 ROW: 1679, Targa - US/Can: 567 ROW: 1276, Turbo - US/Can: 1046 ROW: 972.
Production from 8/97 to 7/98 (model year 1998): Carrera - US/Can: 1292 ROW: 780, Cabriolet - US/Can: 1201 ROW: 138, Targa - US/Can: 122 ROW:212, Turbo - worldwide: 739, Cup – worldwide: 30, GT2 – worldwide: 21.

 

Wow this is great. Thank you.

Is there a way to tell what number a specific car is by looking at the vin?

 

There you go:

http://www.ratmotorsport.com/tech-ti...e-vin-numbers/

 

Thats great info