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Originally Posted by pothole
The total worldwide sales of any water cooled 911 in a single year have never exceed 3x,000
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From the book "
996 The Essential Companion"
1998: 9248
1999: 28,040
2000: 20,979
2001: 27,275
2002: 33,013
2003: 29,536
2004: 23,145
2005: 4012
p.s.
Southernstar, if you look at the above, production for Boxster copy cat Carrera in 1999 was only signicantly lower than the face-lifted 996 for 1 of the 3 full years (excluding 2005) it was produced.
I'd put the drop in 2000 down to the stock market crash and short-lived recession it produced.
By 2002 the credit markets were face deep in the punch bowl of a nearly zero interest rate policy and the mass securitization of all of these loans that followed immediately after aka... the credit bubble.