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Old 09-18-2015, 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Milehigh981
Agreed. The GT,silver will look amazing on this,car, don't frett. We all have different tastes. Like Iortho, I would gave gone GT silver but the current car is silver and I wanted something different.Is it expensive to plasti dip wheels? I didn't want the black wheels either, just not to my taste.
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Originally Posted by IAortho
Meh, I don't put any stock in the color opinion of others. You order what speaks to you! I love my GT silver car with black interior (see avatar) and would have easily chosen it again on the Spyder especially with the classic interior pkg, except can't have 2 silver cars. Yours will look awesome -- don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. I'm just happy the guy who posted that review has plenty of experience to compare the 987 Spyder and the 981 Boxster S!!!! Remember back when initial reviews were somewhat mixed......? I think it is going to be a great car, and a classic like it's predecessor!
I know, it's just a sore spot with me. I made my decision and thought it through and arrived at silver. The pictures above look great and make me feel better. I can't f n wait to get my hands on this car. Already planning a trip around the old USA for the Spring - literally around.
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White made an impression in person. Blue was nice too... But I tell people they should ask a designer, not an engineer.









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Pete.. Would you consider guards red with red interior? I know I want the red interior and pretty set on gt silver.. But seeing those red pics above with black contrast grills/front spoiler etc makes me all shivery all over
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Engineer not designer...
Red on red sounds a little much to me, but I never saw it in person. The red exterior with the black contrasts looked good.
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So exterior color at the time, which was your favorite? (Totally milking your knowledge here sorry)
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I liked the white. It's boring, I know, but it had some shock value in person.

I'm not 100% sure what color I'd order it in. I've had a Guards Red car before and it wasn't me, but that looked really good too.

No more questions about colors. Engineer.
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Originally Posted by Petevb
I liked the white. It's boring, I know, but it had some shock value in person.

I'm not 100% sure what color I'd order it in. I've had a Guards Red car before and it wasn't me, but that looked really good too.

No more questions about colors. Engineer.
Surely an engineer could definitively tell us which color is actually the fastest.


My money is on blue!
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White's fastest.

The multi-stage metallics are heavy, so they're slowest. Most solid colors weigh about the same, but white reflects sunlight and keeps the car cooler. A cooler car means you use less AC, and AC robs power through parasitic drag. White's also less of a cop magnet. So white's the fastest color on average, though grey blends in better at twilight so it edges white in the evening...
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Originally Posted by Petevb
White's also less of a cop magnet.
Actually the opposite.

http://jalopnik.com/the-most-tickete...pri-1599072767
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Originally Posted by navanoD
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First good shot I have seen of the dashboard trim package in leather. The speaker changes to round but this does not show up on the configurator.

Looks like instrument surround in leather also.
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Great pics!!! Are those sun visors leather?... Because I thought recently we had seen red sun visors which is why I switched to leather.. These show black though?
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Originally Posted by il pirata
Hmm. Given that 25% of cars on the road are white, but they only represent 19% of the tickets, that suggests white's beating the odds significantly. I'm sticking with stealthy...
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Originally Posted by Petevb
Hmm. Given that 25% of cars on the road are white, but they only represent 19% of the tickets, that suggests white's beating the odds significantly. I'm sticking with stealthy...

Did not think it was that high but good point.


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