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With a straight-up dizzying array of model variants, color combos, and pricey options, Porsche cars are practically infinitely customizable to fit your particular needs, wants, and whims. They’re so customizable, in fact, that instances of the company building completely identical cars are remarkably, exceedingly rare.
Speaking to Autocar, Zuffenhausen plant manager Christian Friedl says that out of the 25,000 911 and 718 sports cars the factory produces every year, identical twins are ordered “a maximum of two times per year.” Porsche then confirmed that info to The Drive in an email.
Essentially, if you’ve got a new Porsche 911 or 718 Boxster or Cayman sitting in the driveway, chances are, it’s the only car in the world to sport that particular color in that particular trim with those particular options from that particular model year—technically making it one-of-a-kind.
To put that into perspective, there is apparently just one four-leaf clover for every 5,000 to 10,000 three-leaf clovers, depending on who you ask.
Customizing a Porsche on the company’s website though, it’s not hard to see how any new P-car would technically be unique. Taking a look at just the 991-generation Carrera S (a car which can be had with either a manual or PDK transmission, all-wheel drive or rear-wheel drive, and as a coupe or cabriolet), buyers can choose from 13 paint colors (excluding the option to go custom), five wheel choices, and a whopping 15 different upholstery setups.
Because I happen to have a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and therefore have an okay knowledge of how combinations work, that’s 7,800 distinct combinations of just the Carrera S. And we haven’t even gotten into the dozens of à la carte options like in-car fire extinguishers, auto-dimming mirrors, and, y’know, leather air vents.
