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2017 Porsche 911 — Carrera S
Base MSRP $103,400 · 1440 kg · US market · 238 option codes catalogued for this generation
A sample of factory options offered on this car in 2017, with the period prices sourced for them:
| Code | Option | Category | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| XYB | Fuel filler cap in aluminium look | Exterior Design | $160 |
| 446 | Wheel centres with full-colour Porsche Crest | Exterior Design | $185 |
| 658 | Power steering Plus | Chassis & Brakes | $270–$280 |
| XSC | Porsche Crest embossed on headrests | Interior Personalisation | $285–$290 |
| XUB | Headlight cleaning system covers painted | Exterior Design | $295 |
| 748 | Electrically folding exterior mirrors including courtesy lighting | Lighting | $320–$330 |
| 858 | GT sports steering wheel | Interior Personalisation | $320–$330 |
| XPT | Storage compartment lid with Porsche Crest | Interior Personalisation | $330 |
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The Porsche 911 Configurator of the Olden Days
Go to Porsche's website and it will build you a new 911 with enormous enthusiasm. It will let you choose the colour of the stitching on the sun visors. It will offer you seventeen shades of grey and charge you for sixteen of them.
Now ask it what a 1987 Carrera cost with sport seats.
Nothing. Silence. It's like asking a goldfish about the Suez Crisis. As far as the computer is concerned, the last sixty years never happened and every 911 was born this morning.
The answer does exist. It's in a brochure scan, three auction listings and a forum thread from 2006, where two men called Dieter have been arguing about it ever since. Neither of them is right.
So this does what Porsche's website won't. Pick a year and a trim, and build the car from what was actually on the order sheet: real option codes, real prices, the exact same decisions a man in a sports jacket agonised over in a dealership in 1974. It all happens in your browser, and nothing you build is sent anywhere. Nobody wants your email address. There is no newsletter. You're welcome.
10Generations185Trims1499Option codes1965–2024Model yearsNumbers per generation
Every generation is fully mapped. This is how much of each kind of data has been sourced from period Porsche documents so far. Hover any cell for the detail behind it.
Every number has a paper trail
The prices come from window stickers, brochures, dealer price lists and the American government's fuel-economy records, which is not a sentence anyone expected to write. The methodology explains how, in more detail than any sane person needs.
And now there's a wiki, so automotive historians, Porsche enthusiasts and your granddad Gary can add what they know.
The old ones are a mess, and you can help
The older the 911, the less paperwork it left behind. The early cars are still barely priced at all, because in 1968 nobody imagined that one day someone would want to know what the retractable antenna cost.
So if you have an old window sticker in a drawer, or an order guide in a box in the garage underneath a set of snow chains you'll never use, every table in the wiki has a contribute link. Tell us when something's wrong, too. It happens. We're not proud.
Take it, it's yours
The whole dataset is free under the Open Database License. Use it, build things with it, just say where you got it and keep it open. It's only 911s for now, because that's where the paper trail runs deepest, and because doing one car properly beats doing forty badly. More on the about page.