Jimmy-D

can you elaborate - I do not understand

Jimmy-D

I have been thinking- I know-how scary

So GR is leading for me over JBM. But here is a question. With all the black accents do you think Satin Aluminum Wheels is even a possibility. With JBM no brainer.

Second-just say I go GR with Satin Black wheels with red pinstripe and also PCCBs- that car will looks very busy no???

mrhamamg

I was fixated on carmine red up until this morning but I think I am switching to guards because it matches the red seat belts, red stripes on the buckets, red brakes, red on steering wheel, etc.. I also think a brighter color like guards may look better on a car like a gt3 since it is sportier with the contrast of the bright red with the black bits. Plus we have yet to see any .2 carmine red pics whereas by choosing guards I know what I am getting.

In my eyes if I choose carmine, id need to get ceramics so that there isnt a clashing of reds, but i'd still be risking that the interior clashes with the diff shades of red. I could solve that by getting grey stitching inside but I love red stitching...

Sorry if my post doesn't make sense I've been analyzing this for 5 hours already today

Jimmy-D

CR does not clash with the Stitching, Calipers, Belts. The slight contrast I think is a positive so I would not use that as your reason.

I think GR being brighter would be a very good reason plus then you save yourself $4000

philipatl

Anyone have a pic of a GBM .2 GT3 ?

mclarenmaniac

Sorry if this has been posted already...

I think these official pics will help some of us with the decision making process ... Never thought lava would look so much better

https://presskit.porsche.de/models/e...-location.html

Jimmy-D

Picture will not do justice. A color you need to see in the flesh

Drifting

Jimmy,

With a GR exterior I would recommend platinum satin wheels as seen here on my .1 GT3 which I think looks great. Satin black wheels are also very doable, particularly with all the extra black accents on the .2 GT3.

However wouldn't do satin black wheels + red pinstripe + yellow PCCB, as this would look very busy.

I personally wouldn't order satin aluminum wheels with a GR car. Many of the .2 GT3 press cars have had satin aluminum wheels and I don't think they look as good as the platinum satin pictured on my car, which compliments both the black and silver accents of the car, as platinum is inbetween both colors. However the color difference between aluminum and platinum is still subjective, and part of the reason I prefer platinum is that it hides brake dust much better than aluminum, and if you're ordering PCCBs, aluminum is more of a viable wheel color option, than if you're getting iron brakes.

<3mph

Jimmy, it's a medical / biologic allusion. When blood carries oxygen it turns brighter red. This is what happens when blood passes through your lungs; then your heart pumps it out to your body via your arteries. So arterial blood (which has a higher oxygen saturation) looks more like GR (roughly speaking). (Left vial)

De-oxygenated blood (like what returns via the veins back to your heart, after your body is done extracting oxygen for use in your muscles/organs/tissues) is deeper crimson. More like CR. (Right vial)

<3mph MD

Drifting

Love the physiologic comparison between guards red and carmine red.

I'm a physician and on a subconscious level, Guards Red always looked more "alive" to me than carmine, but I wasn't thinking about blood when car shopping.

OG911

This is amazing. I am an obstetrician and i deal with bleeding almost evert day. Next time i do a caesarean i will look at the colour of blood GR blood or CR blood!

Still struggling choosing a colour. got an allocation in November, 4 more months until everything is locked. 4 more months of reading all your forum comments. I love it

bigskyGT3

That guards red is starting to get into my head a bit...

BCMgunner

<3mph was spot on

sorry for the lame geek rhetoric.... anesthesiologist here.

also... the stain aluminum looked great on the CH's press car with all its standard black bits. I think the only consideration would be matching the lights up front. The press car seams to have the standard non-black housing LEDs.

I to am torn between satin black or satin aluminum on guards red (if I don't go Sapphire). My deciding factor is which will look less dated 5 years from now. Many GR Porsches from the 80's had black rims (think Sixteen Candles) and it still looks really good some 30 years later ... Having said that, I think the satin aluminum will be the less chosen, more sofisticated option.

Jimmy-D

Funny- I just DVRd Sixteen Candles a couple weeks ago because I remembered how funny that movie was and at the end the guy is in that 944 with the black wheels

Nacelle

Thanks MD's for the science lesson, did not know that