chuck911

Them's fightin' words! Everything else on the car that's Aluminum Look is, in fact, aluminum. SOLID aluminum. What evidence do you have this is painted plastic?

chuck911

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?! Its plastic?? This one is solid billet, but the worst misspelling of PORSCHE ever!
http://www.maxspeed-motorsports.com/porschegascap.html
Okay well at least that's $169 I do not need to spend!
Thanks, Hammer

Hammer911

"For the Mav, "the best colors are the ones that require the least maintenance" is true, but for another there simply will never be anything to equal the mirror gleam of black- and that feeling is worth every minute it takes to maintain it. Its wonderful all these choices."

I agree Chuck (and not just because I am picking up my new black C4S today!)
It brings to mind an experience I had when I was invited to a 4 day rally with a very exclusive group just after I had purchased my first 911...a guards red 1991 C4 Cab back in 2005. I worked hard to polish it up and get it as perfect as possible for the rally. About 40 cars in the group, an incredible assortment of stuff...Ferraris, Ford GTs, McLarens, rare Porsches, and on and on. My car was clearly the most humble ride in the bunch. And the people...turns out the average net worth among the group (me excluded!!!) was about $100mm. Fearing the worst, it turns out the group as a whole couldn't have been any nicer. Sensing my being a little sheepish about where my car stood in comparison to all the other hardware on the tour, the organizer of the rally summed up the demeanor of the group like this. He said, "You know what is nice about this group? If you love your car, they love your car."

Kind of how it feels to me on this forum, which is very cool.

iLeo

Oh, you guys have no idea how Aqua Blue looks like in reality

Mike in CA

As long as we're talking colors, the latest Panorama had an article about Dario Franchitti's modded 1973 911, custom painted Signal Red, apparently a standard Porsche color from 1955-1965. Looks great in the pictures. Just curious if anyone knows the difference between Signal Red and Guards Red.

Hammer911

By my recollection, signal red is more orange

chuck911

Two of the most impressive cars I've ever seen were both black 911's. One in California at the Monterey Historics, the other was Marv Engstroms daughter's 996 at Whistler Weekend Concours. Marv owns Marv's Magic Customs, probably the best Porsche paint and body shop in Washington. The car was a total they had restored, and it was FLAWLESS. The finish on that car was so absolutely perfect your eyes almost refused to focus on it- they would focus on the clouds, or the trees, or buildings, or other cars reflected in the paint, never on the paint itself. Unless you really made an effort, and even then it helped to find a speck of dust to focus on. I am not exaggerating. And there were not many dust specks, they were standing by with a bit of ultra-soft worn T-shirt and removed each speck of dust virtually as it landed.

They brought the same car back the next year, tried something other than the Griot's they had used to such stunning effect the first year, and while it still looked fantastic it was nowhere near the Galactic Awesomeness they had achieved that first time. So black is the double-edged sword gold standard of colors. If yours was gleaming- and I'm sure it was- then no wonder all those millionaires showed their appreciation. On top of everything else it they probably also know its YOU and not some hired help that made it look that good.

hms90

Dark Blue for me. Shocked it has not been mentioned more than once or twice. A very nice colour on the 991 IMO

chuck911

This looks best in 3D with the night time mode. Painted Sport Techno's aren't yet available in the US.
But when they are..... http://www.porsche.com/microsite/por...e/?c=/PDS16B54

MacAna

I've ordered white with black interior, just seems to me to be the classy option, but I love the silver too.

Question: The blue in the 911 brochure and web-site http://www.porsche.com/usa/models/911/911-carrera-s/ is it the dark blue or the aqua blue? (Seems too light to be the dark blue and too "dull" to be the aqua), and does that colour look as good in the flesh as it does on the web-site and brochure?

I'd consider that colour too.

suhaas307

Is this DBM or a PTS job?

skinzy

+1

Romantic911

Aqua Blue

MacAna

Quoting myself

But doesn't this look awesome!?

I presume this is Aqua ?

bccars

my favorite color for a 991 is the plain black. But I wouldn't be able to live with the maintenance required to keep it in top shape, so in steady second place I have white !