Has PTS lost its shine?
Discussion
Cheib said:
Amazingly with 991.2 GT3 we couldn’t get PTS in the UK because Porsche GB were given the choice of more cars or PTS slots….they chose more cars. How times have changed. Porsche now maxing out the £££. I guess it’s all about having something different for the ‘gram.
Except a lot of pts choices are the same. My local OPC had 3 GT3’s in the same pts colour delivered in the same month LunarOne said:
I have a PTS car and wish it weren't. The colour (Gulf Orange) is the thing I like least about it. But then the rest of the spec was exactly what I wanted so I had no choice but to buy it.
Wow! That's one of the very few PTS colours that I would considering ordering. And maybe some of the metallic greensNuttcase said:
LunarOne said:
I have a PTS car and wish it weren't. The colour (Gulf Orange) is the thing I like least about it. But then the rest of the spec was exactly what I wanted so I had no choice but to buy it.
Wow! That's one of the very few PTS colours that I would considering ordering. And maybe some of the metallic greens
Cheib said:
Amazingly with 991.2 GT3 we couldn’t get PTS in the UK because Porsche GB were given the choice of more cars or PTS slots….
Was just thinking that as I opened the thread.But curious whether the %'s have actually changed versus historically. Porsche GB broke their own sales record last year - >18.5k cars. So could be that the % is similar to before, there's now just more actual cars with it.... OR people are trading up now at the end of their 2-5yr lending agreement
LunarOne said:
Nuttcase said:
LunarOne said:
I have a PTS car and wish it weren't. The colour (Gulf Orange) is the thing I like least about it. But then the rest of the spec was exactly what I wanted so I had no choice but to buy it.
My current car is black.
I have never owned an orange car . of 39 cars owned .
What an eejit ,messed up the quote by deleting half of previous stuff posted
£25k?! Is that how much it costs for PTS? Or is that for a new colour that hasn't been done before?
The Flying Carrot (as I call it) was actually a press car, so the colour and spec was chosen by Porsche GB marketing dept. I'd been lured to see it by the dealer who advertised it as Lava Orange, a metallic colour that I really like. I gasped when I saw the car in its flat non-metallic orange as seen on an RAC van near you. But being a manual car with PSE, PASM, Sport Chrono, and PTV (super rare on a non GTS), this is basically a GTS car in spec.
It's also been featured in videos, magazines, newspapers and it's even on the cover of a book. And I literally cannot park anywhere without people wanting to talk about it - and it's the colour they all start with. So I guess everyone loves the colour but me. It's grown on me a bit, but I'd still rather it weren't so ostentatious considering that I'm a fairly respectable person with a boring job in IT!
I've considered wrapping it in a Lava Orange-like colour, or just turning it metallic grey or something. I didn't in the end, but I did have to have the solid black wheels repainted (I went for McLaren Sparkle Grey) and done so that they have metallic spokes and rims like standard Sport Techno wheels - I hate black wheels! And I added side decals in graphite grey to break up that solid orange. I guess it's a matter of taste whether you like it as it was from the factory. You can see it as it was in this article:
https://driversplanet.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/por...
Can't find a link to the Telegraph article they did on it...
The Flying Carrot (as I call it) was actually a press car, so the colour and spec was chosen by Porsche GB marketing dept. I'd been lured to see it by the dealer who advertised it as Lava Orange, a metallic colour that I really like. I gasped when I saw the car in its flat non-metallic orange as seen on an RAC van near you. But being a manual car with PSE, PASM, Sport Chrono, and PTV (super rare on a non GTS), this is basically a GTS car in spec.
It's also been featured in videos, magazines, newspapers and it's even on the cover of a book. And I literally cannot park anywhere without people wanting to talk about it - and it's the colour they all start with. So I guess everyone loves the colour but me. It's grown on me a bit, but I'd still rather it weren't so ostentatious considering that I'm a fairly respectable person with a boring job in IT!
I've considered wrapping it in a Lava Orange-like colour, or just turning it metallic grey or something. I didn't in the end, but I did have to have the solid black wheels repainted (I went for McLaren Sparkle Grey) and done so that they have metallic spokes and rims like standard Sport Techno wheels - I hate black wheels! And I added side decals in graphite grey to break up that solid orange. I guess it's a matter of taste whether you like it as it was from the factory. You can see it as it was in this article:
https://driversplanet.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/por...
Can't find a link to the Telegraph article they did on it...
Edited by LunarOne on Wednesday 8th March 17:53
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