To All

First, a sincere thanks to this group for assisting me in the selection process, both intellectual and emotional, of my first Porsche, a 997.2 GT3 RS. I began this process back in June of this year, and was burned by the first dealership as they took my order and deposit, and I finally learned in September they did not have an allocation, and had been trying to trade for one. I received my deposit back and placed an order with a deposit with a second dealer the first week in October. Porsche NA accepted the order, I asked for a copy of the pro forma invoice, received it, and then received a call from the dealer 2 weeks later saying they had been informed by Porsche NA that the factory had declined as the PTS color was rejected. On October 21st I immediately revised the order to my second color choice. I received the updated pro forma, and have been patiently waiting until this weekend when the dealer called and said my car was in planned production with a completion date at the factory of January 27th 2011. Can I sleep well tonight? I haven't had a good night's sleep since June.

PS - Thanks again! All the learned elements from dealer allocation, initial invoice, code change to production status, etc, etc, all learned from you guys. If not for this board, I would still be with a dealer that had no chance at an allocation, and waiting for my car that would never come.

 

Congrats, on behalf of all of us here, you're welcome. I'm sorry to tell you though that the worst is yet to come. The next month and a half will feel like an eternity! But then heaven!!

 

Congrats! Once you're confirmed for production (which sounds like you are) you're in good shape. Your dealer did you disservice when they didn't confirm your PTS request at the point of accepting your deposit. But other than that you're on the right track!

Just curious, what color did you request for PTS?

 

The rejected color was signal yellow.

Car is now as follows:

PTS Zanzibar Red
White Gold Metallic trim
Lightweight headlights
Lightweight battery
Console in exterior color
Seat belts silver
PCM 3.0 Ext Navigation, sound package plus, blue tooth, audio interface
Illuminated door sills
NO WARTS!!!!

 

Wow, that'll be spectacular.

Congratulations.

Nah, I don't think you'll be able to sleep tonight either... but for a whole other reason

 

Bummer on being rejected for Signal PTS, that color looks great...

 

Joe, u know I had that yellow car (UK, RHD, <100mi on the odo) on deposit but lost out to some crazy bid (Nearly 10% over my ~£110k bid) and at those numbers I figured I might as well build a new car.

By the time I got around to the new build, the PTS waiting line was 4 months long and I settled with a catalog Grey/Red... Now it hurts to know I've missed out on what must be one of the very few Speed Yellows RS...

 

I like!

If the rumor mills are true your last comp sold for $25k over sticker:
http://bestchristmasinjuly.com/?p=22

 

a good friend has a 996c4s in ZZB red. on wide body cars (RS) it is an amazing color and very rare.
congrats.

 

will look great with the gold trim. there has been at least one other one posted here previously.

 

Is that car real or photopooped?

 

Very real. Was on sale at Pistonheads two months ago...

 

I assume it was real... Posted on here a couple months ago. Supposedly something like 10k+ for the Signal yellow paint job due to Porsche having to test the color on different materials...

 

What's the difference between zanzibar red and guards red? I don't think I've ever seen the former.

 

Here I was thinking Google is a popular search tool. I guess not.

http://www.google.com/images?q=zanzibar+red