i heard that figure as well.
unreal when you think about it!
just say 220 totaled cgt's X $400k as an avg price . . . that comes to 88 million dollars worth of cgt's . . . gone! ouch!

 

the first one is from motortrend and misquotes porsche press release.
couldnt get the auto channel to come up!?
imagine they are misquotes as well though.

 

Hmmmm...very interesting Mike. All the cars I saw at Leipzig (and I'm sure you saw also) had 0000 as serial #s. <shrug> Oh wells, who cares, we can beat this subject to death.

 

My understanding was that the last car produced was yellow and went to the United Arab Emarites...it was car # 1111

 

The console number is not necessarily correlated with the production sequence of the car. My Carrera GT has a console marked with #0911 which was very different from the cars just before and just after it on the production line. The VIN would be a more appropriate way to estimate the actual production sequence of a particular car.

Some customers (mainly those who had the imagination to ask) were lucky enough to reserve a remaining available console number of their choice while waiting for their cars to be produced. The number choosing procedure eventually got out of hand and it was subsequently discontinued before the build-out was maybe half over. One imagines that as word got around about the console numbers being reservable, some late comers to the idea could churn through quite a few suggestions only to be told that each one in turn was no longer available. The first requester has the field wide open to him. The last one in line finds that every number he wants is already gone. They might then be really upset with Porsche.

This "service" was not listed in the order guide and each query about the availability of a particular number was hand carried through the system (and back) by high-level employees who's time was otherwise very valuable. The procedure was allowed because Porsche wanted to satisfy as completely as possible any customer purchasing their most expensive street car ever. I don't wonder why they stopped doing this favor for customers after a while.
A console number like #1111 looks a whole lot to me like it was a requested number. The same customer who requested the console number may also have requested that their Carrera GT be the last one built.

It's just my theory.

 

The auto channel publishes PCNA press releases. Is anyone else having problems with those links. They show production numbers from PCNA for 2004, 2005 and 2006. The numbers for the CGT were 2004 (189), 2005 (340) and 2006 (85). That totals 614 from PCNA.

 

i know a few places you can get the pcna numbers.
but that's not total production . . .

 

Values on the cars are already starting to rise...for some reason the lower mileage cars have MANY issues...my dealer said that a 1K mile car will have the same value as a 5K car....he cant explain it...he did sell a Black on Black 05 with 7.8K for $410,000.00 last week...

 

He is in South Florida...please understand that I will not post a name on a public forum...Thanks