I drove one of his cars the other day (Polar Silver X50). Very nice guy and seems to have nice cars.

I just want a different color combo.

 

Gray interior not to your taste?

I have an arctic silver car and in pictures I don't find it any different from polar silver.

 

I like the grey interior but folks here say it's not desirable and wears badly... I'd prefer whatever is good for value.


Arctic silver is more true silver-ish...Polar silver has the bluish tint to it...Just not my favorite.

 

Arctic Silver 993, Polar Silver 996 Turbo.

 

Here is Dick Barbours car...Polar Silver... You can see the blue tint in all of these pics..


Nice car...few small flaws but nice.... X50


http://www.dickbarbourperformance.co...0/Details.aspx

 

I have a Polar Sliver 996 Turbo, and besides just liking the color, the fact that there aren't many around is an additional plus for me.

 

Interesting. I would not pass a blinded test of Polar vs Arctic silver, and I would swear mine is Polar. I might have to check the sticker now!

 

You're near me. If I bought / buy that X50, there'd be at least TWO lol

Polar has a blue tint... Very distinctive to me vs. Arctic.

 

definitely. i had a polar x50 and it always looked a bit more "special" for that bluish hue. but it also had a kind of turn of the new millennium vibe to the color as silver was hugely popular in the early "00's. one i have now is arctic and i prefer the polar silver.. but maybe not the metropol blue leather interior that polar was usually paired with..and blue carpet was weird

 

Funny, I really like the metropol blue leather and carpet, personally. However, I also loved my Silver with blue leather Alfa, ha.

 

You're right about how silver became so popular in those years..I'd ALWAYS been a silver fan. My first and second car were silver and always loved it.

I'm just a traditional silver fan for some reason. Polar silver does look "special" and unique but I'm not blue fan (Esp. the interior Blue like you said).

The x50 in polar at Dick Barbours has the graphite grey interior which was nice.

 

its funny you mention that and i agree. the irony is my polar x50 car was a low mileage cream puff CPO'd car, and was plagued with all the usual ( yet relatively "minor" ) niggling "issues" these cars all exhibit at, one point or another..

while my ugly *** track ratted modded arctic silver car hit 144,000 mi. today and its a stung mule wi NO problems!

back OT.. id bet that pound for pound an x50 car will be worth a smidgen "more" in the future if only because the extra 30 HP were factory direct. i got paid an extra $5K from my ins co on a "loss payout", once i haggled with them for that $17,800 option!

 

That was a $50K car 1-2 years ago. $60K for that car is a lot of dough, and that gray interior is an awful lot of gray!

 

of ALL the interior colors. i have never seen a graphite grey interior that looked anything other than.. 50 shades of.. grey

 

I've had both Polar Silver (996 C2) and Arctic Silver (996 Turbo, 987 Cayman S) cars. I like both, Polar is more unusual and definitely has a bit of light blue look to it, changes it's look quite a bit in different light... I'd personally take Polar over Arctic in a Turbo, but much harder to find. On pre-997/987 generation cars, black is the only interior I really care for.. On later cars and particularly 991 gen cars, some of the lighter interiors look fantastic in full leather.

While i've never owned one, the darker greys like Seal are my favorites. Or white. No black, guards red, or yellow for me.

Arctic Silver 996 Turbo


Polar Silver 996 C2


Arctic Silver Cayman S