icepenguin66

I am looking for anyone in the Dallas area that has the brand new Turbo in the bright blue. I am about to have one of my cars painted and would love to see this colour in person. Unfortunately I've been unable to make it to the last few Cars & Coffee car shows to check out the few that have been there. I would be most gratefull if anyone that has this colour and would be willing to meet up this week please send me a message. I'll buy ya a beer or lunch or whatever for the trouble! Thanks.

Edgy01

What is the formal name of the color? I assume that it is a metallic color.

Chris from Cali

If you're talking about the one most of the magazines tested, that's a Riviera Blue car. If you're talking about the Turbo S promotional stuff, that's the new Ice Blue color.

Riviera:




Ice Blue:

niner niner seven

WOW re. the riviera blue

stunning.

henrysko

Riviera...Hand's down.

RollingArt

+997

You have good taste!

Don't really care for the Ice Blue. Looks like it's faded from time and ready for a re-paint.



Phil

stevepow

+1 - Ice Blue not doing it for me at all - looks like a rental car color.

nick49

Is Riviera Blue a carryover from the '70s gumball colors?

jcnesq

Isn't Riviera Blue (a beautiful color!) a paint to sample color? I don't think it's part of the standard lineup of colors.

Edgy01

It's a P.T.S. color--not for the faint of heart or timid folks!

Speaking of BLUE, I went to the Mullin AUtomotive museum today in Oxnard, California. (Former site of Otis Chandler's museum). This guy collects Bugattis, Talbot Lagos, Dehayaye--and many were in the French racing color of Bugatti Blue or Talbot Blue. One was a recent find in 175 feet of water in Lake Maggiore.

(The very first Veyron is in the shot with the two--it's the one on the left.)

yemenmocha

+1 don't see the attraction at all. Maybe I'm not young enough to appreciate it.

Ice blue looks classy and reminds me of Azurro, which is also very nice.

Edgy01

I had to include another--Talbot Lago. (Not quite blue).

Edgy01

If you're relatively new to Porsche you are missing a lot of the history of some of these colors. Several of these truly one-off bright colors were first seen by the public in around 1973 with the IROC series when all the drivers drove identical Porsche Carreras, each in a bright color!

Edgy01

Okay--this 1944 Delage Grand Prix car looks a lot like Maritime blue!

nick49

I remember these colors well and remember them being refered to as gumball, like the colors of the gum sold in penny machines decades ago. I had a 914 the bright orange and another Guards red years back.