Originally Posted by
911MRP
Hi Hugh
In the early 70s price list for U.K. market it is clear that Porsche Cars Great Britain as sole Porsche concessionaire for the U.K. set a vehicle spec that was in in some details different to the equivalent spec for German market. It says so on the sheet given to dealers and customers. Various items were offered inclusive in U.K.price because some 911 were nearly twice the price of etype here so probably felt needed some luxury touches as standard — example being for some models U.K. had tinted windows standard here.
Don’t disagree c16 being shorthand for country regulatory stuff etc but less clear how those luxury extras for market positioning purposes got picked up operationally. Another source of configuration complexity to control and communicate beyond regulatory stuff. Possibly implicit from some combination the model no if together with the codes like c16 and/ or EG so part of the country bundle perhaps?
We rarely see the detail in full information packet behind fahzeug-auftrag cover sheet and even the front pages are not commonly available. Porsche clearly not happy for those becoming like the kardex where they somehow lost control of what is clearly internal confidential data which on kardex includes customer personal data.
Maybe in that era the planning system (planungs -term) was bespoke in house software so configuration logic including the local nuances got coded there?
I’m assuming packaged software wasn’t so commonly available so maybe Porsche developed and maintained custom written point solution systems in that era.
On the few fahzeug-auftrag examples for U.K. I’ve not noticed the m-option for things
like inclusive tinted windows being explicitly listed on the form. If that is so then doesn’t seem like the dealer used the m option for the inclusive luxuries on the punched card order and made it free of charge on invoice for markets.
Thus is bit in the weeds but your comment focusing on regulatory made me curios how/where local market spec nuances got handled. Each market would have had the legislatoion stuff and some markets would’ve had the local market nuances adding a layer.
Not looked carefully. Many ways this could have been done but hard to tell from the footprints in the sand — the bits and pieces of paper we sometimes try to interpret fifty years on.
Steve
PS c16 makes sense for Fitzpatrick as Brit maybe he preferred a RHD car even though he lived in Spain. Likewise Indonesia, it is one of about 80 countries that drive on the left. I’ve read that’s over third of the world’s population. I understand that despite being under Dutch control Indonesia didn’t switch even after Napoleon forced the change on the Netherlands away from age old self preservation reason I explained in a previous post.
