[urq] Trivia

Phil Payne quattro at isham-research.com
Tue Nov 25 11:27:50 EST 2003


> Yes, Porsches used S (for Stuttgart) and for some time in 80's used BB-PW which was
corporate designation (BB-Porsche Works??).

As I've already posted, it stands for Baden-Baden - Porsche Weißach.  That's the Porsche test
centre a few miles north-west of Stuttgart.  They were customers of mine for about five years
in the early 1980s.

Two digits is supposedly a boss, three digits a staff member, and four digits a
"Versuchswagen" or test vehicle.

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