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I noticed this on a USA Porsche dealer site - Truffle Brown Metallic with matching interior taste.

Jesus Lads!!

Some folks love the 80s.

I think the picture is not doing it any favours for how washed out it looks. Truffle Brown is lovely

It's as if the home owner association picked out the colour for them.

KittyLitter said: I think the picture is not doing it any favours for how washed out it looks. Truffle Brown is lovely No it bloody isn’t.

bigmowley said: No it bloody isn’t. I see your no, and raise you Ivory.

Dear god good raise. Mahogany brown or baby poo yellow tough choice

bigmowley said: KittyLitter said: I think the picture is not doing it any favours for how washed out it looks. Truffle Brown is lovely No it bloody isn’t. KL has a screw loose! TX.

bigmowley said: Dear god good raise. Mahogany brown or baby poo yellow tough choice That yellow is a very bad choice, a real miss. Surprised that didnt spec red or pink carpets

I was seriously tempted by this, macadamia 991.1 GT3 comfort. Lovely road spec and appealed to my “black sheep” mentality in that no one else would!

There was a new cancelled order Macadamia 911 C2S at Porsche Bolton some years back specced up to the nines with almost every conceivable option. Sat in the showroom for months with a serious discount seem to recollect it was down to basic list before someone bought it.

PRO5T said: I was seriously tempted by this, macadamia 991.1 GT3 comfort. Lovely road spec and appealed to my “black sheep” mentality in that no one else would! Macadamia met is a stunning colour for a GT3. One of my faves. Looks classy on this GT2 too. It needs sunlight to really show its depth.

Of all the colours you could choose from those were someone's top pick. The 'ivory' is worse than the 70's brown.

av185 said: There was a new cancelled order Macadamia 911 C2S at Porsche Bolton some years back specced up to the nines with almost every conceivable option. Sat in the showroom for months with a serious discount seem to recollect it was down to basic list before someone bought it. once it's 2/3k cheaper than it 'should' be just wrap it. FWIW I'd rather have both the babypoo and brown than black...

PTS Mint green. Decidedly reminiscent of the bathroom suite colour Barratt et al favoured in their infamously low rent spec housing builds of the late 70s.

I really like that ivory GT3 and I'm not mad about the poo brown either

Peppermint is a gorgeous colour but so linked to the 964 it almost looks wrong on some cars to me-especially with black wheels.

av185 said: PTS Mint green. Decidedly reminiscent of the bathroom suite colour Barratt et al favoured in their infamously low rent spec housing builds of the late 70s. I like that colour

Mint Grun is Porsche's best colour of all time

av185 said: PTS Mint green. Decidedly reminiscent of the bathroom suite colour Barratt et al favoured in their infamously low rent spec housing builds of the late 70s. I'd have that over any monochrome option.

Admittedly some greens are currently very popular! Oak, acid and brewster.....

Acid looks well. Might need your sunnies though.

Not sold on this:

av185 said: Admittedly some greens are currently very popular! Oak, acid and brewster..... b ds, that was my first lottery purchase when I win tonight

Quite remarkable that Romans Brewster GT4 sold very quickly for £129k last year.....

av185 said: Admittedly some greens are currently very popular! Oak, acid and brewster..... Brewster Green does suit a Bullnose TransAm better though

av185 said: Acid looks well. Might need your sunnies though. I do love Acid Green on GT cars

Sepia Brown, doesn’t show the mud - Police called. Matching interior

gtsralph said: Sepia Brown, doesn’t show the mud - Police called. Matching interior And wheels

Yep truly horrific. No coincidence Sepia brown is a perfect colour match to this

RDMcG said: Not sold on this: Did they do a version for the Ken doll.?

All of these colours are vile, particularly the Mint Green and Sapia. But I always thought I was alone, Ive rarely seen a PTS choice that made me think "yes!, thats the colour Id choose". I was always confused as to why someone would pay for the privilege of applying an awful colour!

ImbackYo said: All of these colours are vile, particularly the Mint Green and Sapia. But I always thought I was alone, Ive rarely seen a PTS choice that made me think "yes!, thats the colour Id choose". I was always confused as to why someone would pay for the privilege of applying an awful colour! PTS stone grey metallic - lovely colour

I can't find a picture of an example, but there's a frozen berry Taycan with green wheels around here. Horrendous.

Tommo87 said: RDMcG said: Not sold on this: Did they do a version for the Ken doll.? Hmm, looks like Rubystone, but maybe not quite, which is one of my favourite Porsche colours - needs to be on a transaxle or 964 though. PBJnr2 wants a pink Porsche so I’ve mad a deal with her - she keeps her end, I’ll see about getting my 968 wrapped early-90s Rubystone, a la… Not all the colours would appeal to me but glad someone gets them! What I don’t understand are people that go to the extra hassle and expense of having their car painted a shade of monochrome - surely there are enough out there already?

The thing with paint to sample is it’s so rarely “paint to sample” these days. It’s just an expanded pallet of pre-approved colours that Porsche will let you choose from. Whe was the last time you actually saw a true paint to sample? There was a 992 GT3 that was done recently in Aston Martin Racing Green.

PomBstard said: Tommo87 said: RDMcG said: Not sold on this: Did they do a version for the Ken doll.? Hmm, looks like Rubystone, but maybe not quite, which is one of my favourite Porsche colours - needs to be on a transaxle or 964 though. PBJnr2 wants a pink Porsche so I’ve mad a deal with her - she keeps her end, I’ll see about getting my 968 wrapped early-90s Rubystone, a la… Not all the colours would appeal to me but glad someone gets them! What I don’t understand are people that go to the extra hassle and expense of having their car painted a shade of monochrome - surely there are enough out there already? This is the proper pts Rubystar on which the current Rubystar neo (£2500 option) is based

IMI A said: Macadamia met is a stunning colour for a GT3. One of my faves. Looks classy on this GT2 too. It needs sunlight to really show its depth. Brown for the win (sometimes...)

Black Olive

Willow Green

Slate Grey

RDMcG said: Not sold on this: Is that 1970s Porsche colour Magenta or just a bad picture of Rubystone or something else?

“Paint To Sample” Guards Red. You may think I jest but on the 991.1RS that’s what it took and even now they’ve classified it an “historic colour” or some such and you’ll pay for it.

^^^ yep only Porsche could get away with pts Guards red option cost on the 991.1 gt3rs . Which incidentally is identical to standard free Guards red.

AMTony said: ImbackYo said: All of these colours are vile, particularly the Mint Green and Sapia. But I always thought I was alone, Ive rarely seen a PTS choice that made me think "yes!, thats the colour Id choose". I was always confused as to why someone would pay for the privilege of applying an awful colour! PTS stone grey metallic - lovely colour OK, I'll bite PTS Gulf Blue

Cost option? Piss take. Colour choice? Lovely. But I'm biased.

Olive green for the win

av185 said: ^^^ yep only Porsche could get away with pts Guards red option cost on the 991.1 gt3rs . Which incidentally is identical to standard free Guards red. It ain’t free no more-go spec a GT car on the configurator these days. KittyLitter said: Olive green for the win “make it look like a cheap respray for a gumball rally type event” look. Fixed. My goodness that doesn’t suit the 996 shape!

PRO5T said: av185 said: ^^^ yep only Porsche could get away with pts Guards red option cost on the 991.1 gt3rs . Which incidentally is identical to standard free Guards red. It ain’t free no more-go spec a GT car on the configurator these days.

Its free.

av185 said: Slate Grey IMO this is brilliant - not an "unfortunate" choice. I may be biased

av185 said: Its free. Ooh, what was I spec’in the other week where it had moved onto their “heritage colour” scheme or whatever they call it now? I wonder if it was a website mistake or maybe the ST?

Am I the only one who thinks these all look fantastic?!? Great to see some imagination being used.

MrBig said: Am I the only one who thinks these all look fantastic?!? Great to see some imagination being used. Highlights to me how some cars are colour sensitive. I think the Gulf Blue looks great but seeing it on the Cayenne it just looks odd.

KittyLitter said: Olive green for the win saw a Macan in that colour and was rather taken with it

Dr S said: IMO this is brilliant - not an "unfortunate" choice. I may be biased Seconded ,that looks great .

PTS is certainly interesting and it is great that we all like different things it would be boring if we all specced the same silver black or grey cars being a prime (Arctic grey....ok not pts only ££2500 extra on a 4RS e.g....primer paint anyone example. Yes no doubt it is fantastic to see particularly interesting cars on the road in interestingly different colours e.g. the other day a couple of Performantes went past in yellow and bright green...looked brilliant and certainly raised a smile. All very well for folks to bravely post 'I love this colour I love that weird colour' blah blah etc etc and yes good to see these colours are available in the first place seeing them out and about....... BUT would they spec these colours on a new car of their own paying c£8.5k and more for the privilege and most undoubtedly the answer would be a resounding no. :

ChocolateFrog said: Highlights to me how some cars are colour sensitive. I think the Gulf Blue looks great but seeing it on the Cayenne it just looks odd. IMO Gulf looks the dogs on my 1.2 Touring

Dr S said: ChocolateFrog said: Highlights to me how some cars are colour sensitive. I think the Gulf Blue looks great but seeing it on the Cayenne it just looks odd. IMO Gulf looks the dogs on my 1.2 Touring Ooh - photo please

Agree Gulf looks great on the GT3.

Dr S said: IMO Gulf looks the dogs on my 1.2 Touring Tourings on the whole can pull off the more obscure colours imho.

Maybe not unfortunate... disappointing definitely.

KittyLitter said: Olive green for the win Bile green, surely…? :-)

ImbackYo said: All of these colours are vile, particularly the Mint Green and Sapia. But I always thought I was alone, Ive rarely seen a PTS choice that made me think "yes!, thats the colour Id choose". I was always confused as to why someone would pay for the privilege of applying an awful colour! if we all liked the same colour the world would be a dull place.

Maxym said: KittyLitter said: Olive green for the win Bile green, surely…? :-) Wellington Boot Green

A few more I saw:

Agreed, I'm not sure Gulf would work on a Cayenne but like all PTS choices, totally subjective... beauty is in the eye of the beholder and i dont think there can be a wrong choice For balance, my old 3rs in Gulf;

ChocolateFrog said: Highlights to me how some cars are colour sensitive. I think the Gulf Blue looks great but seeing it on the Cayenne it just looks odd. ^ This. Olive green 996 looks horrendous. But a similar hue on a 997 looks altogether different :

Strangely attracted to Smyrna Green

Anthracite brown metallic Looks spectacular in my opinion but suspect others will find it a bad choice https://www.elferspot.com/en/car/porsche-991-carre...

Some may say this is unfortunate but I like it. My PTS SWB, one of the 30 PTS 911’s built in the first year of production.

Cheib said: Some may say this is unfortunate but I like it. My PTS SWB, one of the 30 PTS 911’s built in the first year of production. far from unfortunate. looks fantastic and must be worth a fortune to have a PTS from 1st year of that offering.

Acid looks awesome, would have been my no 1 choice. av185 said: Acid looks well. Might need your sunnies though.

KittyLitter said: Anthracite brown metallic Looks spectacular in my opinion but suspect others will find it a bad choice https://www.elferspot.com/en/car/porsche-991-carre... I see it's listed as anthracite but I don't believe it is. Anthracite is a much darker colour, as you might expect. Looks more like copper or cognac.

simonsti said: Maybe not unfortunate... disappointing definitely. Is that “Schwarzoliv”? An absolutely stunning colour, imho. Not commenting on the wheels or the neon green decals (or that it is a Macan), but the very dark green is about my absolute favourite colour for a 911 of all times. Such a understated, lovely colour 99% of the people would take it for black 90% of the time, but it really pops in bright sunlight. The very colour for the discerning gentleman. ETA: I mean “dunkelolive metallic”. Even darker than “schwarzoliv” Edited by Filibuster on Sunday 15th September 01:11

PRO5T said: av185 said: Its free. Ooh, what was I spec’in the other week where it had moved onto their “heritage colour” scheme or whatever they call it now? I wonder if it was a website mistake or maybe the ST? Which colours are free varies depending on the model, probably due to factory configuration.

Filibuster said: Is that “Schwarzoliv”? An absolutely stunning colour, imho. Not commenting on the wheels or the neon green decals (or that it is a Macan), but the very dark green is about my absolute favourite colour for a 911 of all times. Such a understated, lovely colour 99% of the people would take it for black 90% of the time, but it really pops in bright sunlight. The very colour for the discerning gentleman. ETA: I mean “dunkelolive metallic”. Even darker than “schwarzoliv” Edited by Filibuster on Sunday 15th September 01:11 Correct, it's dark olive metallic. Unfortunately it looks gloss black 99% of the time. The other 1% it does look really nice.

Fashion Grey - not sure if it works that well on this one https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/17348224

Mark-ri571 said: Strangely attracted to Smyrna Green My favourite of all the PTS colours, If I'm ever in a position to buy a new PTS car that will 100% be my choice without question

I just like that fact that Porsches do actually come in interesting colours - and that the owners are willing to spec them that way. Last week, as I was joining the motorway to head home, I thought I’d driven into a monochrome world. A berust je sea of white, grey and black vehicles. Not a single coloured one in sight. I blame the fact that so many cars (here in Holland anyway) are leased. Makes my Neptune blue (not a PTS colour on the taycan but lovely) car stand out even more.

It would be interesting to see a Porsche in this TVR colour. Reflex Charcoal. Under studio lights it shows all the different tints, but on all but a sunny day it looks like a very nice Charcoal Black Metallic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8T3ghpvJkM

I personally love the PTS colours and am so glad they exist. Nearly all the colours above are great. They generally benefit from being "factory" approved, which is maybe why that 996 doesn't quite look right. I actually think BMW do it better with their Individual colours though.