New Balance running shoes numbering system

VIA RUNRANRUN.com

New Balance does not use names (like Nike for instance) but num­bers to indi­cate their mod­els. Where the 926 used to fol­low up the 925 and this numer­i­cal struc­ture was applied to all new shoes. Nowadays the clear­ity in this sys­tem seems to be lost. For instance, the suc­ces­sor to the New Balance 1064 is the New Balance 1080.
To bring back the clear­ity New Balance comes with an update in its numer­i­cal sys­tem. The update is as fol­lows:
- All run­ning shoes end with a 0
- The num­bers will not change, the suc­ces­sors are iden­ti­fied by ver­sion num­ber (1080v1, 1080v2, 1080v3, etc)
- The higher the num­ber, the more pre­mium the shoe (860 vs 1260)
- The last two dig­its indi­cate the type of model:
-- 60: Stability (860-1260)
-- 70: mild sta­bil­ity (870)
-- 80: neu­tral (880-1080)
-- 90: light­weight, mod­ern (890)
-- 00: spikes and rac­ing flats
So the New Balance 1080 is a pre­mium neu­tral run­ning shoe.