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Thanks for the heads-up on Cornflower being identical. I was able to go find a Golf in Cornflower right down the road from the local Porsche dealer to finally see "Shark Blue" in real life. My conclusion: not my favorite blue at all, so definitely not for me. And I really wanted to like this color.
I suspect some of it was seeing it on a Golf vs. seeing it on a GT3 (GT3 always makes any color look better IMO).
There is the cost of SB, and then there is the price of SB. Don't confuse the two. And they are not the same to everyone. Hence, different color selections and offerings.
When I go to sell my GTI I'll make a note that the color is "Porsche Shark Blue", I'll add this quote and add $500 to the price. Somebody, somewhere, might consider it a bargain.
Watching from the peanut gallery (ie, no interest in newer GT3), this is hilarious, especially some of the posts above.
Suspect some of the other earth shattering updates from that AP video on this GT3 will turn out to be in a similar vein and the true criticism will come out when the 992.2 version is released.
Some colours just suit cars and body shapes better than others. I don’t think that colour looks that great on the golf, but it looks great on the 911 IMO.
This is kinda funny. Shark Blue is a lowly VW color, but paying PTS money for a Toyota color is all the rage.
I'm not sure I've seen cornholio blue is person, but it's my frontrunner pic for my next GT3 even if 25% of cars will be in this color and worthless as a result.
Excited for a side by side picture of the two. I think the VW is lighter, more like riviera blue, but pictures lie and paint codes don’t.
On my GTI, it’s definitely not as light as Riviera. It’s likely not even as bright as Mexico, but very close. I feel like if I had to guess, I’d place it right between Mexico and Voodoo.
Perhaps the premium for Shark Blue is for the R and D required to come up with the name? I am sure that took a lot of thought. Or perhaps they need to pay AP royalties for having the insight to nick a color from the VW parts bin for the purposes of using it as the 992 GT3 debut color? It will be interesting to find out, perhaps someday, whether AP's yachting story is true, sort of true, or completely apocryphal.
Saw Cornflower/Shark today on a GTi, it's OK.
Cornflower is not as dark as Voodoo, certainly way darker than either Mexico/Riviera/Gulf/Meissen. Less violet/purple than Maritime. Miami is way more green.
Certainly Golf is darker/more mature than Shark as are Albert, Deep Sea & Pantone296C.
PS I've owned a few of these color plus Santorini Blue on a BMW.
Yes, along with the BS AP story about seeing the color on a yacht in the Med while on vacation (so we could all picture the moment in our heads). Marketing 101.
04-14-2021, 03:53 PM
