991 Racing Yellow - The Money Shots

[Carl_Docklands]

Thanks for posting those photos, it reminds me of why my next car will not be Grey

[Junior Bianno]

I love Grey. Atlas Grey is my favourite ever Porsche colour, but I'm also quite an aficionado of Meteor, Seal, Slate.....

...and I've currently got a red Porsche, and I'm not a bank manager, and I'm pretty sure I'm not too repressed.

Slippy - those pics are amazing. What a collection of beautiful grey pork.

[Slippydiff]

jackal said:

I can accept that you're a 'Grey' man ... kudos to you. But on this one you'll have to concede that you're the 'odd' one in the minority. As a commercial photographer who gets hired to make manufacturers cars look amazing in brochures, adverts etc.. I have to take a wider and more objective view which takes into account people's tastes on a sample size greater than one. We never shoot grey cars. I don't want it nor does the client. As Molly says, there are so many other colours that look far better. An aston I can just about get (although not under a myriad of indoor exhibition spotlights which is the only time you will see a car looking like that) because of its accomplished overall shape, but the modern 911 just doesn't have the physique to cut it in grey. Ok the red graphics liven it up a little but other than that, you're on your own !

Grey also sends out the worst messages of all .....over controlling, emotionally repressed, middling and RESALE !

I once went out with a lady who over-analysed what everyone did, said and thought. . . . . and you know what they say about psychologists . . .

jackal said:

We never shoot grey cars. I don't want it nor does the client.

This may well be the case, but I somehow doubt commercial photographers are at the core of Porsche AGs customer base Likewise, since when has a car manufacturer tried to sell its own products to itself ? It is after all the buying customer that decides which colours end up on the colour charts for any given car.

As for my thoughts on grey cars, I just happen to think that a lot of contemporary 911s do actually look good in grey, however there's no pattern to my likes or dislikes when it comes to choosing a colour for a 911.

My first Porsche (a 964 RS) was Midnight blue. It looked low key and stealthy to all but those in the know.

I had a Guards red 993 RS with Clubsport spoilers and I have to admit, I did enjoy the attention it got.

I then purchased a Guards red 964 RS (but by then I'd tired of Guards and most likely wouldn't go back there again with any Porsche) though I did so briefly with a 964 C2 which I found very dull to drive in comparison with the RS)

I had a very brief flirtation with a Rubystone 964 RS (I quickly realised I couldn't carry it off, it takes a certain type of person to do so, and that person wasn't me !)

I then bought my Zanzibar GT3, firstly because I loved the colour (I've yet to see a picture in any magazine that captures the colour accurately, now there's a challenge for you . . . ) and because it suits the car perfectly, it's rare (like the car) and the car that Evo used in their initial roadtest was in just such a hue and it looked wonderful.

I subsequently bought a Midnight blue 996 GT2, a colour that I thought suited the car perfectly. Discreet, slightly menacing (but a real PITA to keep clean and scratch free) when I came to re-sell it, it became clear that it wasn't a favoured colour at all, yet now that Consul owns the car, it would appear that many on PH think it's a stunning colour (along with Crimp a Lengths very clean example)

Latterly I owned a Meteor Grey Gen 1 1997 GT3, I found the colour was very discreet, menacing and showed the cars lines up (but without highlighting any one feature too loudly)

At the time I was looking, just about every other example on the market was white, a colour which makes the car look very dull and whilst it gives it a "Motorsport" look, it wasn't what I was looking for (if that had been the look I'd been after, I'd have gone for an RS version)

If nothing else, we are all different, as are our tastes. I'm sorry if you found my response to your initial post inflammatory, it felt as if you were ramming your opinion down everyone elses throat without giving any consideration to the fact that peoples views on colour are highly subjective.



Oh, and just for the record, perhaps you might like to take a look at this thread :

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

There's a GT3 RS 4.0 in certain hue that seems to be quite popular. Minority, odd, seemingly not . . . . .

Edited by Slippydiff on Tuesday 15th November 14:09

[graemel]

Phooey said:

Ian_UK1 said:

The original 996 was a beautiful, minimalist, svelte, compact, visionary, elegant, subtle, sexy and appealing design

R u taking the piss? It was fking awful. I lost all interest in Porsche in 1998

Amem to this. Fat and bloated IMO. Like most modern day cars. Far to big, badging is ridiculous. Do you really need to put the word Porsche on its arse so that muppets know what car it is. FFS it is supposed to be the new 911. I guess it is but it is not in the spirit of what the 911 was all about. slippydiff some very interesting points.

[mollytherocker]

[Slippydiff]

mollytherocker said:

I would have a GT2 in white and a GT2RS in red. Grey justs fades into the background. What is it about bright colours that you dont like?



MTR

Nothing whatsoever !





But I tend to think that a 997 GT2 RS in red shouts "LOOK AT ME ! ! !"
For a lot of owners that would be appealing, but not for me.

This is another favorite (I think it may have been advertised on PH recently) :



Whilst a black version with orange wheels, spoiler end plates, decals and mirrors is appealing, the stealth Q car look is equally appealing to me.
(Note the lovely grey CSL in the background, Jackal doesn't appreciate them either . . . . ! )

[g7jhp]

Still looks very Aston Martin V8V like:

[g7jhp]

Still looks very Aston Martin V8V like:

[mollytherocker]

g7jhp said:

Still looks very Aston Martin V8V like:

I reckon thats not by accident. Aston make some absolutely beautiful cars and Porsche are trying to capture these 'GT' buyers without losing the core 911'ness.

From this point of view, I would say that they are succeeding. Problem is, I dont want these manufacurers to dilute their products to widen their markets.

A Vantage and a 911 should be entirely different propositions. I wish that the magazines would recognise that a little more when doing their 'which is best' stuff.

MTR