Coochas

I'd be willing to venture that >99% of non-Spanish speaking Carrera owners don't know what it means!

Soulteacher

I second that. Research has shown repeatedly that consumers do not know the origin or even meaning of the names of the brands they are buying. And that's true for all types of product categories. I'm not even sure everybody knows what 'rennlist' means...

OCBen

I guess it would mean 'Carrera Lista' in Spanish.

Soulteacher

The funny thing is, though, that this very website states that 'renn' is the German word for 'race'. Your friendly neighborhood German has to point out, though, that the German word for 'race' is 'Rennen' (for both verb and noun); nevertheless, it's not a problem because when combined with another noun (such as 'list'), 'Rennen' loses its 'en' ending. So we are cool. VERY cool actually.

Coochas

Si Senor.
I hope there are no 'Carrerists' out there!

OCBen

None of those. But maybe a few 'Carreraristas' here near Mehico. Olé

ELUSIVE

Is anyone else tired of pcar964's posts? I've pretty much determined that this guy is worthless to this forum.

And to answer his question, I had a general idea of where the name came from, but my thought was that it would create some conversation about these great cars.

Stacey

Tom 993tt

The Carrera Panamerica was the first major race that Porsche won (1953?) after they started manufacturing cars. This win "put them on the map" and greatly enhanced their reputation. The word Carrera was subsequently used by Porsche on certain limited production high performance versions of their cars during the 1950's through the 1970's. The marketing guys took over in the 1980's and the standard 911 (3.2L) produced from 1984 through 1989 was called the Carrera instead of the 911. The marketing guys seem to now think that "911" has more sizzle and the new cars have that on the rear nameplate.

Hope that helps.

Coochas

I never understand it when people make overtly rude comments either. Very often they're just trolling, very often these comments are from complete posers... either way, it spells personality disorder!

pcar964

Yes, my post was overtly rude. and I am a complete poser. I don't know anything about Porsches, and I don't own a Porsche. I'm just mad because you people can afford them and I can't. Sorry to interrupt with my extremely insensitive remark, please continue your conversation.

OCBen

I do like your avatar! ... Every time I read your posts I'm reading them as though Kramer himself is saying them. ... And at times, like just now, you do sound like Kramer.

But if you're anything like Kramer, you probably have thick skin and none of this bothers you.

pcar964

haha very true. I think I'll stay more in my own sandbox though - non-sugar-coated opinions are not welcome in some forums. I don't intend to hijack threads, but sometimes people will drop the thread topic and instead focus on how wrong my opinion is.

It's funny to watch the overreaction of some members, you'd think I was spreading **** propoganda by some of the responses I get. There must be a sociology experiement in there somewhere: "Emotional over-involvement in Online Web Communities"

OCBen

Would that be anything like "The Abstinence" episode in Seinfeld, the 'Sex Contest'?

PV

I agree with Coochas, that this thread is a very nice one to read. Even you know some of the history, it is always good rehearse it once a while. There is always a new fact on the table, you haven't seen before.
Don't worry about the people who know it all. I would invite them to explain the difference between a flat-6 and a boxer motor.
Coming back to this thread: which family member(s) of Porsche are (still) active?

ked

for those curious about Porsche company history, Ludvigsen's "Excellence Was Expected" is comprehensive. it includes a partial listing of type #s from 7 to 980310 (Carrera GT). btw, 994 was an internal designation for the 964 Turbo in '89 & 995 was a study performed for the German gov in '79 (a low drag aluminum bodied 3 liter V8 - doncha' wish our gov wasted $ on high perf auto design?).

PV, the family members stepped out of active management participation in the early '70s when Ferry & Louise realized that business & family matters were operating at cross purposes. The "boys" went their own ways (F. Piech, famously to VW-Audi, from which he just retired as the Chairman & CEO), but of course maintained board-level oversight.