hinckley

Eduardo, do you have any additional interior pics of the Boxster in post 468? I haven't been able to find many pics of the deviated leather options that are available for MY15 991s (only seat inserts and door armrests), and that Boxster appears to be pretty close to what's currently available.

Z356

Of the interior on that custom 981 Boxster, this is the best photo of it that I took at Zuffenhausen during my last visit in 2013!

Saludos,
Eduardo
Carmel


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RESP

Love the "Ring" sticker on the rear driver's side bumper

hinckley

Perfect. Thank you.

VIC_50th

Note: this looks to be a Sport Bucket seat!

Z356

Yes, it is.

Yes, it's a European spec vehicle. The gt2 type sport bucket seat is still an option in ROW on both the 991 & 981! Pas nous.

Saludos,
Eduardo
Carmel

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Keadog

For anyone ordering PTS, I just got an email today from my dealer saying my September build has been pushed back to November.
Anyone else hearing a similar story?

hinckley

Exact same story from my dealer yesterday (non-PTS car). Apparently, the Q4 allocations are tiny. My guy has been selling Porsches for about 25 years and he's speculating (only speculating) from experience that MY15 may be a short model year and that the MY16 facelift may be coming sooner than we thought. I'm almost certainly going to delay my build until early next year now.

991999R

some inspiration for a potential PTS color that i haven't seen done...i would definitely consider for my next go around...

Mondrian

If you gonna use inspirations then how about Gemballa Orange? Eduardo someone over in a UK forum was inquiring about this colour a few days ago, i did point them towards you & this thread. Anyhow as far as I know its not a Porsche colour, any ideas about this colour from 2006 Gemballa Evo 650?

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djcxxx

I asked for a feasability check on Tangerine/Blutorange (018) for a 991 GT3 in 6/13 and was eventually turned down. I was told it was a color that could not be successfully done as a two stage system. Whether or not Porsche could have come up with something close such as this Gemballa color did not occur to me at the time. Certainly a sample could be sent to Porsche for testing.

Z356

Problem is you don't know when PTS will be available on the MY2016 .2 991. I do expect the latter (the facelift .2 version of the 991) to debut pretty early in calendar year 2015 - maybe as soon as April/May production at Zuffenhausen! But the question remains as to when PTS will actually be scheduled for actual production & allocation on that model year! Given how often PTS gets the short end of the stick, PAG might not schedule PTS production until the Fall of 2015! If it keeps up, Hinckley, pretty soon you'll be waiting until the new 911 chassis debuts in a few years time! So this 'delay order logic' often turns into a very slippery slope!

It's not exactly the same, but know that 'Mint Green' is currently being feasibility tested as a PTS color for the 991/981.

No. It would have to be submitted on metal sample and tested.

As an aside, there is some 'talk' over at the 991 gt3 forum that 'Tangerine' / 'Blutorange' is going to appear as a special color offering on the MY2015 991 gt3 RS. I'll post more on this interesting 'speculation' on this thread shortly.

Saludos,
Eduardo
Carmel

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djcxxx

As an aside, there is some 'talk' over at the 991 gt3 forum that 'Tangerine' / 'Blutorange' is going to appear as a special color offering on the MY2015 991 gt3 RS. I'll post more on this interesting 'speculation' on this thread shortly.

Well if true then perhaps I was turned down for reasons other than technical? Certainly if Porsche can do Pastel Orange (017) and Gulf Orange (019) as PTS why not Tangerine/Blutorange (018)?

Z356

Let me first frame the 'talk' of 'Blood Orange' in the 991 RS. A couple of months back, Reter (Trakcar) started talking about a rumor he heard of a 'burnt orange' color option on the upcoming MY2015 991 gt3 RS. I thought he was kidding and made some fun of it.

Post #169 at
https://rennlist.com/forums/991-gt3/...l#post11515053

Then others at the 991 gt3 forum more recently started talking about rumors of 'Blood Orange' as a special color to be offered on the RS:

So I suggested the following theory. The David C. in the story below is Rennlister 'djcxxx' who is also posting above on this thread:

"Reter...so your 'burnt orange' has now morphed into 'Blood Orange'? Good, because that color has real possibilities to be seen on the 991 gt3 RS!

Blutorange / Tangerine: Here is an interesting side story on this color and PTS. I got an email over one year ago from a Rennlister (David C.) in Florida that requested assistance in helping him get Porsche to approve 'Blutorange' or 'Tangerine' as a PTS color. That beautiful color is a vintage & historic early 911 long-hood hue which had color code 018 back in its day! He mentioned to me that this 'Tangerine' color had been ordered by Brumos as a PTS in the 997/987 era. That is all we had to go on. I contacted someone I knew at 'Porsche Exclusive' in Germany & made inquiries. Sure enough, this bright fellow in Germany was able to find a sample color chip (attached photo #1) from the Brumos PTS and suggested that it be requested again so that it could be tested to determine its feasibility for PTS the 991/981. Just because it was used before for PTS (e.g. in past decade) does not mean the color would be automatically approved for the newer models...due to different paint formulations (PAG switched to DuPont) or other variables (new metals/plastics used).

David C. indeed tried to get PAG to approve that color for PTS via his dealer! It shows up on the 1/23/2014 PTS list. But it was 'rejected' (see photo #2). But all of the talk here re: rumors of 'Blood Orange' as one of the colors for the MY2015 gt3 RS leads me to think that the color was actually approved by PAG...but it's being reserved exclusively (at first) for the 991 gt3 RS!

We will soon know! Hopefully at Paris...or even before!"

If indeed 'Tangerine'/'Blutorange' color code 018 appears as a special color for the MY2015 gt3 RS, it will be only a question of time before it is allowed to be ordered as a PTS color on all custom 991/981 in a few years time!

Saludos,
Eduardo
Carmel

zathras

I'm starting to plan my Porsche purchase and this has been an interesting and informative thread.

The PTS color pdf's are useful, but I'm wondering if there is something that shows that list that includes actual samples of what each one looks like? ie, a color sample block, or even better, an image of a vehicle in that color.

Thanks
Bill