A1 - Black

Not heard of that many people going for A1 - Black all seem to be going for metallic instead. What's the groups opinions of solid Black? When a car is clean and solid black you have to say it does look stunning.

I am truly a 'black' fan.....my last three Porsches have been that color. This time I just wanted a change.....looked at a bunch of colors both light and dark and decided on Atlas Grey.......a color that most photos cannot capture, but this one does a good job of.......a brilliant color....... <input type="image" height="600" width="800" src="/UserFiles/06_3(1).jpg" /> Edited by - Atlas_Croc on 10/21/2005 08:33:53 AM

Metallic paints are generally considered harder wearing and less prone to fade by UV light from the sun due to the amount of layers of paint and laquer and not forgetting the reflective flakes of metal. FWIW for a car costing this much I'd be speccing Basalt Black. Dean

I like solid black in a car, preferable to basalt which has too much brown in it for my taste. I think the interior color for a black car should offer some 'relief' from the potential somberness of black, particularly in a sports car. There was a posting on another board suggesting that a new Porsche interior color may be introduced, a light cream rather than beige. Porsche had an interior like this in the 80s and Mercedes currentlyoffers an interior called stone which is a cream color. I think if you are going to get a black sports car it should have some contrast in the interior, red, beige, cream, even gray. I think the all black which seems so popular is a 'safe' choice if resale or 'sexual identity'are major concerns (which seems to be the case for alot more people than I would have expected based on what I've read on the internet). A light color interiorwith a black exteriorcan be given more interest with either carbon fiber accents or paint ext color. But in the last analysis,you've got to go with what fits your personality. Edited by - DaveC on 10/21/2005 08:45:26 AM Edited by - DaveC on 10/21/2005 09:05:19 AM

looks like black to me I'm thinking about going for seal grey Edited by - lukeo on 10/21/2005 08:52:21 AM Edited by - lukeo on 10/21/2005 08:53:53 AM

Lukeo, I think that is Artic silver and not seal grey. My Boxster S is seal grey and it is definitely a lot darker than that.

There's no way that car is Artic Silver, surely?. Here's some more pics here http://minolta.eazypix.de/cayman/index1.html whenever I see another seal grey pic, looks the same as the above Edited by - lukeo on 10/21/2005 09:25:10 AM

...it's special order GT Silver.

Lukeo, here is my Boxster S in SG. It is so much darker than that Cayman S. Also note how much darker that 911 is also.

i think that cayman is gt silver.

It looks too dark to be GT silver to me, I still think it's seal grey. Other pictures of seal grey look just like it, obviously, the boxster above does not

I don't think its Seal......looks like GT in the shade to me. GT is a shade between Arctic and Seal.

Thats not Seal Grey, I'm positive about that..I would post a pic of a nice GT2 in Seal....but my conector is disabled(?) Seal Grey is a lovely colour.

I've chosen Seal Grey, but really struggled with the interior, I think grey is too similiar, I don't see the blue matching it, which leaves black. The problem is that I don't like black interiors ! Anyway after looking inside a new 997 I changed my mind. The black is more of a charcoal colour and it's lifted with some white stitching and the aluminium. However, this week I've changed my order to Black/Grey leather ! The best of both worlds, dark, but lifted by the grey !

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This is seal grey. The Cayman on this post is GT Silver.

What color is the one directly behind it?

It appears to be artic silver, but I cannot get a real good look at it.

Re the original post, I currently have a Basalt Black 911. It looked great when clean and shiny, but after 32,000 miles it is beginning to show every little stone chip, even when clean. This experience leads me to insist on a film 'bra' when the Cayman comes in.

i would have to say the car behind is gt silver

There were no GT Silver cars in Spain according to Woodhouse who was there.

Anyone got any pics of darker coloured Caymans (Caymen?) Midnight Blue / Lapis blue / Basalt Black etc Were there any in the Ibiza jolly?

seems weird that out of all of those cars in ibiza there were was not 1 that was gt silver

The truth is that there wereNO <u>ARCTIC</u> silver cars in Spain. All of the cars were either: Seal Grey, GT Silver, Basalt Black, or Cobalt Blue. (Somewhere I was misquoted as saying there we no GT Silver cars...and that is incorrect.) BTW: Seal grey looks great w/ cocoa interior.

We did also see the following in Spain: Dark Olive Metallic, White, Guards Red and Speed Yellow. But the cars we drove were all either: Seal, GT Silver, Basalt or Cobalt.

Given Woodhouse's comment that there were no Arctic Silver Caymans in Spain, have we yet to see a picture in that color? Has every silver Cayman we have seen so far been GT Silver? JHellow