Porsche Project Numbers (Auftragsnummer)

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It was decided early on that each project in the Porsche design offices would be assigned a job number in sequence. Porsche is a design company first, and a car company second. The job numbers would later become the model numbers of Porsche automobiles. The numbering started in 1930 with design number 7, the Wanderer car chassis. The engineers wanted the contracting company to think that the new Porsche Company had past experience in design, hence the number 7 instead of 1.