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Right, but that grey script is gone from configurator this morning. As I bounce back n forth between Yellow with black wheels and Black with gold wheels. Grey script gone now??
kind of an ******* move to tease us with that Ti bar. Or any roll bar for that matter.
Yup, but don't get the sense they really care. We're living in bountiful times for high-end manufacturers and they really don't have to work very hard to sell their wares.
The presentation itself was nothing more than pulling the cover off the car and saying here it is - no discussion of design, content, performance, etc. I used to do sales & marketing for a heavy-hitter retail chain in a prior life. We killed to 1) get customers into stores, and 2) to get real face-to-face feedback. Porsche had probably 80-100 ostensibly VIP customers at the RS intro event and I didn't see or speak to one senior person from Porsche. It's not like they weren't around. I know at least AP and Pat Long were there the prior evening for the press event. I enjoyed the event and appreciated the chance to see the car, but the whole thing struck me as a missed opportunity for Porsche.
Then again, it could be worse. Ferrari and McLaren didn't even bother showing up.
Originally Posted by C.J. Ichiban
I hate the fact that Web says it's refined. I don't want refined...I like that my R is NOT a daily driver.
Indeed. Still waiting for our decontented Cup interior....
Originally Posted by major dad
Your US Weissach pack is about 4000 cheaper than our Euro one. We get the cage ,you keep your money !
They can keep the 4k. We want the Ti bar.
Originally Posted by Jrtaylor9
I know mag wheels aren't available yet. But when they are, do I understand correctly that you have to order WP plus the mags? Or will we be able to order mags separately w/out WP? Could be hypothetical question since they aren't available yet.
You have to order WP to get Mg wheels. Porsche correctly sussed out that without the Ti bar most would skip WP and just order Mg wheels, hence they're holding us over a barrel with WP in order to get Mg wheels.
very nice. Id skip the PCCB and yellow accents but it does look fantastic.
Originally Posted by Nizer
I'm not a black car guy but this combo with green interior is pretty appealing. Even better if we could get green calipers.
Green or maybe even gold calipers. Maybe black calipers.
with black you can keep swapping. Like with the white ones..
remember when people paid $5000 2008 dollars for the 997.1RS ?!
The side decal is still there for black cars, just much harder to see as it is black. I don’t think it ever was silver, as if you switched to the 3D view it appeared similar to the other black graphics. I think it was just a mistake with the 2D rendering. I reckon it’ll look great in black - the black stickers will look grey when in sunlight in comparison to the deep black paint..
Edit: ok, if you blow up the pic larger, decal still there but more faint. Tough to tell if it's intended to be the grey it clearly showed before or if it's black decal on black car (which could be cool but is a bit of an odd oem choice).
Nope, not trying to be difficult. But the top pic wasfrom a screenshot from weeks ago. 2 or 3-d now shows a diff decal color on the configurator than it did a week ago.
03-31-2018, 09:03 AM
