480375 480379 480390 480394 480399 480400 480403

480404 480405 480406 480412 480413 480414 480417

480422 480424 480425 480426 480428 480430 480432

480433 480434 480435 480437 480438 480439 480440

480441 480442 480443 480444 480446 480453 480460

480461 480463 480464 480466   Unidentified USA Car

Exterior Color Count

Black - 18 cars
Black Metallic -3 cars
Grand Prix White - 2 cars
Guards Red - 10 cars
Metallic Paint to Sample Pearl White - 2 cars
Midnight Blue Metallic - 2 cars
Polar Silver Metallic - 1 car
Speed Yellow - 1 car

Facts, Rumors and Myths?

# 1 The Turbo 'S' premiered at the Los Angeles and Detroit shows in early 1994, ironically after the model could no longer be ordered.

# 2 VIN 480404 has 'ship to: Detroit Autoshow' on the MSRP sticker and it was owned by Porsche for a period of time. The order code was COCAR indicating it was ordered as a corporate car.

# 3 The red Unidentified ROW Car with black TechArt air inlet/fog lights was the factory prototype and these photos were the ones sent to dealers in the U.S.A. to show prospective customers the car.

# 4 NBA star Michael Jordan originally ordered a Flatnose (reportedly VIN 480425) but backed out and the car was sold to another buyer. Subsequently, he purchased VIN 480406 which sports the license plate 'AIR 1'.

# 5 VIN 480414 is the only car identified as ordered for European delivery.

#6 VIN 480412 was featured in the April 1994 Excellence article. The car appears to have been special ordered with the 'Turbo 3.6' script. Purportedly the interior of this car was redone including addition of Recaro seats, an after market stereo system was installed and the stock exhaust was replaced with a B&B system. In 1998 it was stolen out of a garage and stripped, a day or so after the owner had an elaborate alarm installed. According to CarFax records 'engine, transmission and other parts stolen'. AutoCheck records state that the car was 'last seen at recycling facility' in September 1999. Its whereabouts remain unknown.

# 7 A black/gray Flatnose was given by an heiress of the Gerber Baby Food fortune to her boyfriend who blew the engine twice, apparently due to reckless down shifting.

# 8 A midnight blue Flatnose was stolen from the parking lot of a dealership while in for service and was recovered almost immediately by police with no damage at all except door lock. The car was repaired and returned to owner who then had the same car stolen by gunpoint in a parking garage and that was the last anyone heard of the car.

# 9 VIN 480466 is the very last single Turbo Porsche production car made for the USA.

# 10 VIN 480375 was originally purchased by its owner from the dealership of Vasek Polak the famous Czech Porsche racing enthusiast and car dealer. The owner later used the car to pay off a debt to his friend in the Czech Republic which is where it now resides.

# 11 VIN's 480446 and 480464 were both ordered by one buyer and both were ordered with cloth seat inserts.

# 12 VIN 480413 was once owned by baseball player Jose Riba in the Dominican Republic.

# 13 There are an unidentified number of X88 engine optioned standard 3.6 models. These cars consumed some of the 62 X88 engines (a total 155 X88 engines were built) not used in the X83/X84/X85/Package series cars. VIN 480457 originally imported into Canada by Volkswagon Canada is an example of one of these cars.