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Carrera is Spanish and translates as "race".

The "T" stands for "Touring". I also read somewhere that the SC refering to the 911 stood for "Standard Car". Don't know aboout the 356.

So it doesn't mean Super Car?......God after all these years of thinking that

Carrera as a term
 

I read somewhere that the name "Carrera" was used as a marketing tool by Porsche to revitalize general interest in the 911. You will recall in the early 80s that there was a buying surge of Japanese imports, not to mention Porsche's own 924, 944 and 928 series, which all-in-all was taking a huge bite out of 911 sales.

As for SC, a post not to long ago said SC stands for
"Sayonara Civic." ;)

911 Red Book pp.61 "The new 911SC(S for Super,C for Carrera) combined the previous year's 911S and Carrera models into one basic 911....."
I tend to trust the Red Book on most issues. Very heavily researched.
Just my $.02! Mike

To sum things up, "T"=touring model, "E"=einspritz(injection), "S"=super, fastest normal production model at that time. "SC"= super carrera, melding together of carrera/"S"model from 1977, (both were fairly toothless then, but we are talking marketing).

"Why would there be a Super Carrera, and then a few years later a Carrera?" Same reason that there would be a "911S" in 1975 that was slower than a 911T in 1972. You are trying to glean non-existent meaning from marketing labels, the idea was to sell cars, period. No offense, but you remind me of every person I have ever won a bet with who didn't want to pay. And if you'd won and the other guy was grasping straws like this, you'd cry cheat, right? :cool:

And Warren, no such thing as a "C" Carrera? Then what is that thing on page 108 of the latest Excellence? (April '03). :cool:

Swanky Chickmagnet,
So much better than Carrera,
Superfly Car,
Smokin Cool,
SuperCalifragilisticexpialidoshiuos

:D

If no one can come up with documentation from the factory of what SC stands for then maybe it just stands for nothing. One more badge put on a car because it looks good. In my reading on the Porsche 911 SC the opinions vary from no meaning to Super Carrera. Heck if the factory doesn't know then nobody does in my way of thinking. I'm just happy that they built the car and I own one.

But someone did come up w/ documentation from factory, (BlueSky's link to original sales literature), you need to read the whole thread. :cool:

Correct....the first use of SC was on the 356......before the 911 was born.

on the 911 model it stands for "slower than Carrera"

on a 356 it stands for "Super Carrera." On a 911 SC it stands for "Stupor Car" because of the leisurely performance of the CIS injection system.

It certainly is confusing as there was a Carrera four cam- four cly motor before there was a 356C. Like in Carrera Speedster. So now it's backwards, CS.

Our regional Porsche Club "Nord Stern" had a great article in the Feb 2003 newsletter on the history of 911 evolutions.

Here is a link.

http://www.nordstern.org/Newsletters/index.html

Hopefully it will help with some of your ques.

S~

What this says is they took the 911 Carrera, and detuned it and called it the 911 SC. Super Carrera? I think not.

Damn that is clean! Lets see pics of the whole car! :)

Oh...ummm....sorry for trying to add more info to your question.

Hey it helps my case, thanks Sarah!

I thought "T" stood for "tepid", but then mine was running on four cylinders.