"Classic colour combination" of black with tan leather

"Classic colour combination" of black with tan leather

Author
Discussion

supermono

Original Poster:

7,368 posts

247 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
quotequote all
http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/p...

Lol, you have to love dealer spin.

I bet when he was buying it was "Christ we'll never shift that with brown leather I can only pay peanuts"

  • I'm assuming Tan = brown.

Mad March Taffy

508 posts

118 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
quotequote all
Classic....

I suppose that Baby-sick brown is a matter of taste.... knocks a few quid off the value of the car though, doesn't it?

Steve Devaney

714 posts

201 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
quotequote all

supermono

Original Poster:

7,368 posts

247 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
quotequote all
Please don't say that's the actual car? I'm hoping not!

unclepezza

789 posts

142 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
quotequote all
looks like GT2 on the handbrake, so could well be the car.....

Magic919

14,126 posts

200 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
quotequote all
Pics on their website. Yikes.

supermono

Original Poster:

7,368 posts

247 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
quotequote all
Why the hell would someone spec that?? Does anyone other than the dealer reckon there's anything classic about that?

I'd love to hear the premium he paid the seller because of it...

MDahmen

6,891 posts

176 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
quotequote all
imo better than red/cream ferraris that seem to be so popular in the UK

IknowJoseph

542 posts

139 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
quotequote all
It would look better with a different steering wheel and the cigarette lighter being plugged in. Give it some patina to get rid of the shine and it could look something like classic. Not sure I'd go for it on a GT2, however.

supermono

Original Poster:

7,368 posts

247 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
quotequote all
MDahmen said:
imo better than red/cream ferraris that seem to be so popular in the UK
Fair enough, I happen to like that red/cream however we are all different smile

Having looked carefully at it, in a Panamera or even a Carrera I think it actually doesn't look too bad. But in a GT2 it's all carbon, buckets, harnesses and cages really IMO, this is too much of a drawing room look.

hondansx

4,562 posts

224 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
quotequote all
I really hate the red and cream combo - screams "wish i had a Ferrari".

However, it is fair to say we are pretty boring here in the UK. I love some of the colour combos the Europeans go for when i'm driving on the continent.

IMIA

9,410 posts

200 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
quotequote all
I like it boxedin

haha just noticed price. Think that sold for £40k literally 3 months ago!. I've noticed the same phenomena with Ferraris recently and nothing special i.e. 430 Spyder etc. Car I was going to buy down the phone from DK Engineering for £80k now up for sale 3 months later at £92k?!

Edited by IMIA on Wednesday 28th January 18:51

Hard-Drive

4,076 posts

228 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
quotequote all
I actually quite like the seats and the colour...but it's just too much brown. If you got a scrapper Boxster and transplanted a black dash, black steering wheel, and swapped the lower part of the door trim for black, ditto gear lever and handbrake, door airbag covers and bin lids, and that would look great. Cost you £500 from a breaker, plus keep the brown stuff in the loft for originality just in case.

I had an Alfa 156 with the same colour combo and it looked great.

Mad March Taffy

508 posts

118 months

Thursday 29th January 2015
quotequote all
Apparently it was a custom order....

Customer's name was Stevie Wonder!

(Sorry.....)


supermono

Original Poster:

7,368 posts

247 months

Thursday 29th January 2015
quotequote all
It's interesting how few of these cars we know about on these forums. I know we have a register courtesy of Ram, but I estimate less than two dozen are known. This one seems to have only just surfaced as far as I know.

Dr S

4,995 posts

225 months

Thursday 29th January 2015
quotequote all
yes on a stock Turbo. definitively no on a GT2

unclepezza

789 posts

142 months

Thursday 29th January 2015
quotequote all
supermono said:
It's interesting how few of these cars we know about on these forums. I know we have a register courtesy of Ram, but I estimate less than two dozen are known. This one seems to have only just surfaced as far as I know.
Gavin has built a new database with help from Ram.

http://www.autoinsider.co.uk/carclubs/registers/re...

Still needs updating with all the cars, but it's a work in progress.

Mad March Taffy

508 posts

118 months

Thursday 29th January 2015
quotequote all
Anyone know if there is a 996T register?

Thanks

supermono

Original Poster:

7,368 posts

247 months

Thursday 29th January 2015
quotequote all
unclepezza said:
Gavin has built a new database with help from Ram.

http://www.autoinsider.co.uk/carclubs/registers/re...

Still needs updating with all the cars, but it's a work in progress.
Interesting, about 20 on there. Once up and running I'd like to add mine but doesn't seem to work at the moment.

996GT2

2,649 posts

209 months

Thursday 29th January 2015
quotequote all
supermono said:
unclepezza said:
Gavin has built a new database with help from Ram.

http://www.autoinsider.co.uk/carclubs/registers/re...

Still needs updating with all the cars, but it's a work in progress.
Interesting, about 20 on there. Once up and running I'd like to add mine but doesn't seem to work at the moment.
PM me the details via here if you want smile

I've been sent around 90 cars in a spreadsheet by EvoEng on here, going to load those in over the next week, that should be most of the 996s done.