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Congratulations! Wonderful car and wonderful photography! I love it!
Can you share a little more about what specifically you ordered for your CXX (I assume you meant this, not XXX) steering wheel? I special ordered my steering wheel too, and I thought it was a nice little touch to personalize the car.
BTW, I agree it seems like GC is very close to Suzuka (except that GC is solid, and Suzuka is metallic). Here is my friend's light grey Suzuka R8 beside my modegrau GT3 for comparison.
While we're on this topic, does Porsche have a
PTS-approved color that's similar to Nardo?
I hope to find out which current Porsche PTS color
comes closest to Audi's 'Nardo Gray' after my RS7
arrives. Although I have seen 'Nardo Gray' in person
several times (it's quite rare in the Audi world too), I
need to live with it for a while for me to 'understand'
& 'appreciate' the color better.
I am still trying to do that with my new 'Signal Green'
'15 gt3 which is a version of that bright green color,
color code 22S, slightly different from my old 'Signal
Green' .1 997 Carrera S, which was a different formula
& color code 'W25'.
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One thing for sure, 'Nardo Gray' is nothing like the OP's
equally beautiful 'Grigio Campovolo /Y99', which is a
much lighter grey tone:
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We know that 'Nardo Gray', a solid/uni color as Daniel
correctly tells us, doesn't look anything like 'Suzuka Grey
Metallic':
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Nor 'Gregio Telesto Metallic', although not a Porsche color,
is one of many Italian auto-manufacturers 'greys' available
via PTS:
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Nor 'Grey Black':
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Nor 'Stone Grey', color code Z67:
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What about 'Slate Grey', color code 615 or color code Y97?
I think 'Nardo Gray' will turn out to be lighter than 'Y97', and
much more so (ighter) than the darker '615'. I have yet to see
a Y97 in person. But we will have to wait to see.
I think 'Nardo Gray' will turn out to be lighter than 'Y97', and
much more so (ighter) than the darker '615'. I have yet to see
a Y97 in person. But we will have to wait to see.
Saludos,
Eduardo
Carmel
Thanks as always for chiming in with as much detail as you do.
Yes, Nardo is definitely lighter than Gray Black and Grigio Telesto Metallic. It's close to Grigio Telesto, but in most lighting conditions, Telesto can appear really dark:
It should be noted that the above M3 is actually Grigio Telesto Pearl, not Metallic, though that may just be a naming convention difference between VAG and BMW.
It's also lighter than Grigio Medio:
And lighter than McLaren's Chicane Grey:
I'm very interested to see if Porsche has anything that comes close to Nardo. Hell, even Toyota has a similar color:
Porsche's Graphite Grey comes pretty close, but it's a bit flatter than Nardo:
Porsche's Graphite Blue Metallic has a similar inky undertone to Nardo, though obviously they are ultimately very different colors.
Please update us when you know more.
Last edited by Ferrarisimo; 12-30-2015 at 07:48 PM.
Much lighter. It looks more similar to Audi's Suzuka Grey.
Suzuka Grey is a metallic though... I use to have it on a Audi TTS I ordered with Exclusive Paint... I attempted to order it for a PTS 987.2 Spyder a few years ago, but it failed the feasibility test.
UPDATE: oops... I guess I should read the complete thread prior to replying to posts.
12-29-2015, 11:19 PM
