TheBen

He decided to drive what he calls his "city car": a 1998 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S. Stepping into the garage, he tugged a thick fabric cover from the car. The interior was a pristine matte black, and the paint job was a startlingly luminous azure. "It's called Mexico blue — a very traditional Porsche color," Seinfeld said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/ma...g-up.html?_r=0

ilko

Cool article. Will read the rest of it on Sunday.

I think this is the car in question:

doc_porsche

i wish i was him

hoggel

Thanks for the post. I didn't really have time to read all 8 pages. Now I've got to get some work done.

osugasman

Great article to accompany a great car and a comedic genius!!!

Quadcammer

so its his beater?

doc_porsche

lovely car.....

JPP

I read an interview with him recently where he said he originally ordered the car in Riviera Blue but the factory wouldn't or couldn't comply and suggested Mexico Blue instead which was the closest color to RB that they could provide at the time. I think this is the car that Porsche 'jostled' around in the factory line in the final days of 993 production so it could be called 'The Last' aircooled 911 produced.

asofine

Very strange that he would use a 993 as his "daily" in Manhattan given the disrepair of the roads here.

NC TRACKRAT

Were you expecting an old Buick Regal?

NP993

He's worth about $600 million. It's probably not that big a deal to him.

ilko

I drive my 993 in Manhattan. Hell, even in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. And my net worth is not quite in the $600 mil range

goofballdeluxe

It only seems strange if you're not worth hundreds of millions of dollars

inkatouring

My 993 is my daily, too. Ruining the clutch going up and down hills, dinging it squeezing in small parking spaces, and risking it being run off the road by other San Francisco drivers. Doesn't take 600M (or the 800M the article says he has). Not even 100M. Just a certain bit of insanity -- insanity that apparently we share with Jerry....

JPP

^^^ this.