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If I'm not mistaken there are two new interior choices up on configurator:
-Black/Dark Silver
-Graphite/Chalk
Forgive me if this has been there and I just didn't notice but these two interiors options look quite attractive and seem very functional because they should wear a lot better than leather on the high use areas like seat bottom and bolsters, plus hold you in the seat more.
I hate how most leathers wear, bolsters almost always wind up looking like crap after a few years.
The black has a silver stitching breaking up all the black, looks fantastic and is a cheaper alternative to deviated stitching. Combine with 18-way seats (or your favorite seat) and I bet these would feel great, nice and snug.
IDK , the textured-fabric seat centers and white piping evoke a 1970s era bell bottom leisure-suited white patent leather platform-shoed used car salesman for me with gold rimmed Elvis sunglasses , pommade , bushy mustache and pendant chain thrown in for good measure as that is how lotsa cheap, cheesy " high class " mid range American car interiors came during the " Disco " era !
If you take care of the leather, treat it twice a year, it should look fine for decades. And you can always re-dye leather that has really been neglected but what do you do with that material when it starts to look old?
From this angle the graphite blue/chalk/sport-tex looks a bit busy but looks great in leather. The black/dark silver sport-tex looks great if going with a darker interior. T
This is a nice development. Liking all the extra deviated stitching in the black Sport-Tex interior. Might sway me from black/luxor two-tone. Not sure if I want to give up ventilated seats though. I will say I don't get hot on cloth seats like on unvented leather.
I would like the graphite blue/chalk if the doors, lower dash, and console were blue. It would be a lot of work keeping the doors scuff free and clean. Plus Porsche needs to include the matching leather steering column. The black interior can get away with not having it but the blue needs it for sure.
Also it stinks that I can't get the Premium Plus package. Can't Porsche just give a bit of a discount and remove the vented seats from the package?
... evoke a 1970s era ...used car salesman for me with ... pommade , bushy mustache and pendant chain thrown in for good measure
Hey, I think you're mixing your eras. I was just a teen in the late-seventies (height of discoism) and never sold cars for a living, used or otherwise, but one thing we all avoided like the plague was any hint of something wet in the hair; i.e. pommade, gel, spray, or anything that made it look wet was verboten, too redolent of the fifties and early-sixties slick-back hair.
chain smoking "greatest generation " -aged used car salesmen never got the " wet head is dead ...the wet head is dead ...long live the Dryyyyyy Look " memo til their dying day ...remember that hair control product TV ad with that weird moaning/droning tag line from circa 1968-1970 promoting the John Denverish hair look ?
A few in that born between 1915-1925 generation did adapt to apppear " hip " , like the late LA KMPC 710 AOR DJ Bill Ballance !
Looks like an option that would be a lot easier to maintain than chalk. What would be good is if you could get graphite blue/chalk with graphite blue leather inserts instead of cloth. i would have changed the colours on my Targa for that (Graphite blue/ graphite blue-chalk instead of GT silver/ bordeaux-black.)
09-16-2016, 09:11 PM
Sport-tex seat option in 991.2?
