JCBH

Haha I saw a Birch RS at the factory and it was was very unique and cool. I never get threads like this where someone posts that they do not like something that they do not own...I don't like many things on the market but my standard procedure is to simply not trade my money for those items....

Robert Linton

The car in front of Wempe is fantastic.

Lapis

To each his own on preferring colors they like or don't. IMHO, some greens are nice, but I tend toward the darker more muted ones like Brewster, British Racing, and Moss, which I associate more with classic racing and 911s. But for some, Skittles colors are cool, I get it.

What I think the OP is getting at and that I agree with, though, is the mania over PTS. What proves to me that it's irrational is how people will fawn over a PTS car, like say, a 911R, just because it's PTS (like, say, black) even though the color wouldn't excite them one bit on any other 911 on which it could have been ordered as a standard (even free) color. To them, it's about "rarity" they say, but really it's about bragging to others that they got a PTS car, without any regard to whether the color itself is actually good looking or even unique among Porsches.

The stupidest one I saw recently was a 991 GT3 RS in Carrera White Metallic marked up over $100K because it's PTS. Swear to god, it looks white. You have to put it up against a "white" one to see any difference and then it's just a matter of being slightly cooler bluer white with faintest hint of metallic fleck when seen from inches away. Big deal. And CWM is among the usual colors you can get on much lesser Porsches, like a regular Boxster or Cayman.

Rather than spend $100K extra to buy a lightly used RS in a PTS color like that, I'll take the same lightly used RS in plain old white (or another regular RS color like, say, UV, Lava, or GT Silver) for $70K less and use that $70K to buy a nice Boxster or Cayman to DD instead of havinh the vanity to blow $70K so I can brag I own a PTS car.

I would like to get a PTS car, but only if I could order the color I would choose (assuming I could get an allocation at MSRP and pay only the $6K or so extra Porsche charges) or only a used one if it was in a color I would prefer a lot over any other color I could buy for less and even then, only if the price delta was no more than $10K for that.

bronson7

It certainly is strange how Porsche chooses it's PTS colours vs standard colours. I guess we'll never know.

goin2drt

Well stated Lapis

RFGGT3

I thought the cleaning lady picked the colors.

goin2drt

I saw a Mint Green GT4 today. It was the ugliest car I have ever seen in person. I honestly wouldn't get caught dead driving it. I don't care if it was 1 of 1 in the world.

JonA85

Too each their own.

Lapis

Exactly. Agree on not finding that one attractive. But I recall it was ordered in that color by another rennlister who wanted that color, so to each his own. But the idea that others would value that car far higher than objectively more attractive standard colors just because it's rare is the craziness I'm talking about. Put another way, if mint green has been a standard color, there might have been only a few people who would have ordered it, so ugly is that color on the Gt4, and whoever had bought it would have suffered more depreciation than other colors because it wouldn't be popular or considered attractive by the vast majority of GT4 buyers.

Yet call it a PTS car, and enthusiasts gush over it and can't whip out their checkbooks fast enough. Emporer has no clothes...

bronson7

This, I totally agree with.

Alan C.

I've been hooked on Viper Green since my 73S.

mrsullivan

Ummm

A couple things.

46 isn't old. My God...

Special Porsches have always come in fun bright colors or liveries

C.J. Ichiban

these photos need to be printed and sold off

CAlexio

I remember calling "mint green" an "interesting" color on another thread and getting railed for it, people were losing their **** over that mint green gt4. It's true that if it were offered as a standard color the take on it would be minimal. It's human nature to want what we think we can't have, Porsche is a master at profiting from our excitable fanboy minds.

brake dust

For me, paint color depends on the model and year of the car. Thought mint green looked fantastic on the smaller 964 - but would not choose that color on the 991 GT3RS.

Am a huge fan of birch green on the 997 GT3RS - but would not do it for the 918 Spyder. White is my favorite for the Spyder. That car has great lines and I almost think some paint colors detract from those lines. For me its model specific.