ManhattanSpin

Anyone have any info on this glass sliding and tilting sunroof option? If it's basically the same as the current one but with glass that seems like a no-brainer choice for sure! Assuming it has some sun shade thing you can use too.

dodo1porsche

Per the German order guide
Option: 653
Availability: June 2012
The non-glass areas of the roof will be in Black Aluminum. The glass sliding roof will have a "roller" sun shade (if I understood the German description correctly). The price should be ~30% above the metal sliding roof.

ManhattanSpin

Nice, so the roof will look black from the exterior? That would look pretty cool in white!

Gleek48

I wonder how much more this will weigh than the standard sunroof? Agree that it would look cool to contrast a light color like white or yellow.

jrt600

Here's a screen shot from the German configurator - I think it'd look good with a white or maybe silver exterior (I just used red with a beige interior to highlight what's different about the glass sunroof).

Jon70

I'm not a fan of the sunroof, but this certainly is an improvement.

LastMezger

So the opening is the same size as the steel sunroof? Looks like it.

ManhattanSpin

Almost like a Targa! Def going to get this sunroof on my order.

gota911

IMO, that looks terrible!

zanwar

Wow. That looks fantastic. If I had traded in my 997 Targa for a metal sunroof 991 and this came out a month later, I would really have been annoyed. Glad I never made that trade.

Edgy01

The 993/996/997 style Targa roof may be gone now.

Jon70

Only $500 more than the nonglass sunroof.

WCE

It's not a true "panoramic" roof, just painted black with the sliding section in glass. Definitely not a targa replacement, perhaps a "targa look"?
I decided not to order the sliding roof contraption, and I'm not convinced this configuration improves it much...I will miss not having a sunroof however...maybe Porsche could have kept the old one as a n/c option (yea, right)!

fbroen

To me this is not very different than the "Targa look" 993/6/7. I never felt that my 997 Targa was anything but a glass sunroof. The parts over the doors need to not be there for it to be a true Targa IMO.

I think the fact that Porsche named this "Electric glass slide/tilt sunroof" instead of Targa may mean that the rumours of a lift-out panel Targa return may be true.

mehoff

That is very irritating.