Did someone say Sapphire Blue?

 

Nothing boring about Racing Yellow. It's not Porsche, it's the clientèle. I see a bit more lively colors on cars when I am in Germany vs here in Belgium. I am trying to sell my RY 981 and not a single reaction after one month. I knew a 991.2 in RY in my neighborhood that took almost a year to sell even if the price was right and the car only a year old! Everywhere I look on the road, I see shades of boring grey cars. What's wrong with people? A bright color tells the world that you love life, metallic grey usually that you are scared of taking any risk and afraid to live....

I will make an exception for chalk and non-metallic slate!

 

I like bright colors also. I think Miami would look great on the 718 gt4 with black diffuser and black wheels

 

Colors in the U.S. are also very location dependent. Stopped by a dealership in S.C. in my Miami Blue GT3 and the guy basically asked if that was the only color I could get my hands on. lol When I told him I speced the car myself he looked shocked. He told me he had a MB base 911 sitting there for months with no action. He swapped it for a silver 911 from a FL dealer and both dealers sold their respective cars in a week.

 

now you’re just showing off

 

Seriously, if my GT4 (or any other car of mine) was ever that clean and shiny I'm not sure I could drive it. I need a live-in garageman to get it looking like that and keep it looking like that after every drive. Like Sabrina's father...

 

I'm jealous of the shine. Just drove my GT3 from Florida to RI and graciously rid the East Coast of every alive flying insect.

 

It's not that some of us don't like the bright colors. We don't like the attention they bring. These cars look great in bright colors. I just like to go unnoticed whenever possible.

 

Yep like to be understated

 

depends on what you use the car for.

If it is a weekend warrior, collector, track day, cars n coffee *****, then a PTS or funky color is the way to go.
If it is a secondary vehicle for evenings and weekends and some daily duty then a subtle color is best.

 

This!! Some people might want a bright color and regret it shortly after having the car for a few weeks with the extra attention it brings.

 

Porsche is the most profitable car company in the world. The following is from Motor Authority: "Porsche, whose cars sell for about $50,000 to $150,000 (with souped up and auctioned models going even higher), makes an estimated $17,250 profit for every car, according to Bloomberg, and BMW, Audi and Mercedes each make about $10,500 average per car."

Silverado is GM's most profitable vehicle, but not nearly as profitable as you suggest. GM makes about $17,000 for each Silverado sold, but that's just one model, whereas Porsche makes an average of $17,250 for every car sold. See below for the average profit made by GM on each car sold. So with just a couple exceptions GM is a cost plus company.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/bu...sler/23852189/

 

Same here ^^ I dont like all the attention either. I love my Agate Grey.

 

I appreciate your stats, and I don't want to debate how the economics of the auto mfg. business work, other than to say that correlation is not causation. All of GM's cars are priced according to what the market will allow, as I stated above. It just so happens that the General has a few models where that price is high above the cost to build, and a lot more where the price is much closer to the cost to build it. In either case you could reason that it is a "cost plus" model, except that if that were accurate all GM models would be cost plus the same thing.

In fact, they are "cost plus whatever the market will bear." Meaning that if GM could make $17,000 on every Cobalt they sold, or $30,000 for that matter, and still support the volume of cars they want to sell, they would do it. They wouldn't say, "Well, we're a cost-plus-15% company, let's hold the price at $22,000" (or whatever Cobalts sell for now.) Like my builder does on houses. He builds them for cost plus 20%. If the house costs $2MM to build he makes 20% on it. If it costs $900,000 to build, he makes 20% on it. That's not what GM does (or any other car company I'm aware of.)

Low margins are dictated by the space a model inhabits, and that includes the number of competitors making truly competitive models. Since Porsche plays in a place where margins are much more robust anyway, and since they have managed to differentiate in the minds of their customers to such an extent we'll pay much more for a Porsche than we would for an arguably equivalent (and sometimes arguably better) competitive offering, they enjoy crazy high margins on everything. So their version of Sell The Car For As Much As Possible looks very different than GM's version of the same game. But neither is building to a cost-plus model (other than in the sense that there is a minimum above cost that a model must sell for to get greenlighted in the first place.)

Cheers!

 

What do you mean? My wife says I must like attention.... from middle aged men