I'm close to the idea of walking away from my dream cab over pricing issues. None the less my wife and I are still tossing the idea of ordering our first 911.

I was going for a 911 4S cab. At first my color options we could somewhat agree on was graphite blue or yellow. I'm in the car paint business so I want something fun and not reproducible on a black and white camera (avoiding silver, grey, black, white) When I brought my wife in she loved those to colors. I went in again for a test drive and my wife actually saw a yellow 911 and to her it looked like a taxi, and she no longer likes the graphite.

Now it's between lava orange and GT silver. She really prefers silver because it's classier and doesn't fully agree with my reason for wanting a fun color. 911 looks great is silver and it highlights the curves so I could order the silver and regret it a little everytime I try to find it in a parking lot.

The lava orange looked stupid ugly the first time I saw it, and it grew on me quickly. My wife saw a turbo S and we wanted to model it to look similar. lava orange, chalk/blue interior, orange painted trim, black wheels, and the cool spoiler. Except I cant have the cool spoiler and I'm wondering how out of place this orange car looks without a wing. If the car is bright orange it better drive and look badass.

Can you help with my Porsche configurator ocd?

 

I just saw this thead: http://rennlist.com/forums/991/93073...rst-911-a.html

Cool color but it just looks naked without the turbo spoiler. And a turbo is much north over what I had budgeted in my mind. I might settle on a plain color like silver which looks good without a spoiler, settle on orange with no spoiler, or wait a while and put it off until I can come to grips with spending turbo cash.

 

Lava orange looks fantastic both in person & pictures. The colour could standout even more if chosen with the black headlight & tinted tail lights.

As of silver, GT silver has always been my favourite Porsche colour and it's cheaper to get on the .2 models.

 

I like some of the less common colors as well but will you always like them? Porsche also tipped its hand with its pricing - GT Silver used to be a $3200 option and they dropped the price by around 75% for 2017 and you know they aren't losing money at that price - I am speculating that this might have been a little bit of doubt on their part with respect to the 2017 models. Charging as much as they do for Lava Orange is absurd when you can get it on a Mustang for no charge - it certainly doesn't cost more to buy or apply so it is purely marketing hype. If I could buy whatever I wanted then I would step up and pay the extra $ and get a paint to sample color - nothing outlandish but unusual like one of the blues they make - I saw a 911 in a silver blue that was absolutely great looking and you wouldn't get tired of it after a while.

 

I bought a '16 991.1 lava orange GTS several months ago. I get bored of cars easily and to be honest having the orange has kept my interest. I also have an M3 that I got in Yas Marina Blue, which I love. Yes, these colors are controversial but I get nothing but love from strangers and, most importantly, it's more interesting to me. I too love GT silver, but my GTS is my fun car so why not get a fun color that, to me, looks great!!

 

My dealer also had a lava orange car on the floor when I got my GTS. That color really is gorgeous. In my mind, lava orange would be a perfect substitute for red (ordinary) if I wanted something eye-catching. However, and this is just me personally, these kinds of colours can also quickly date a car. My P4S was GT Silver...a classic Porsche color in my opinion. If you plan on holding on to your 911 for a while, lava orange may not be the way to go...but then, again, you're in the car paint business so changing colours might not be such a big issue.

 

I love the lava orange. I have speed yellow and when I heard about the car I had very negative feelings about yellow, but when I saw it I loved it. I get a lot of compliments on it. The other way to go is order white and have the car dipped...similar to wrapping, but I think it has advantages. You can change the color a number of times for what it would cost you to order one of the high priced color options.

 

As a car paint guy I know a few things an the cost of paint on racing yellow, lava orange, and guards red is significantly higher than than any metallic porsche has ever offered.

Red, yellow, orange can cost as much as $900/gallon of quality basecoat color when looking at retail prices. silver, grey, white, and black are around 200-300 for the same amount.

It does cost more to paint a car that's a non production color. Changing a color means some downtime is involved, and possibly even hand painting might need to be involved when it's a custom sample. When a car factory paints a car the metal parts are painted in different time and place than plastic parts too so they changeover might take place in a couple ways.

 

I kind of feel like a lava orange 911 is naked without a cool spoiler too. What do you think?
How much is the ducktail option to add?

 

I don't know whether the duck tail can be had as a stand-alone. It's part of an option that includes a different front end. I had it on my 991 C4.

 

Does the ducktail rise at certain speeds?

 

No, completely fixed.

 

I don't believe the ducktail is available on 991.2, just 991.1.

 

Would a 4s cab look ok in lava without the spoiler?
I've only seen one in real life and it had a spoiler because it's a turbo s.
Driving around town I feel like I'm color blind looking at dull cars, but I can't help but think about getting lava could be a huge mistake 3 years later.

I suppose I want it to drive like a kick *** porsche, look like a turbo, and cost much less than a turbo.

When I drive around I see white, black, grey, and silver cars. When I see a green or blue car it's not very chomatic so it either looks like a black car with green or blue hint in the bright sun reflections, or I see greys and silvers with a blue or green hint.

I do really like GT silver too, but the whole can't find my silver car in a parking lot of silver cars lol bothers me. I want my Porsche to drive and look awesome, and I don't want it to drive awesome but look stupid. I think I need therapy I have problems only driving a Porsche cab can help lol.

 

Considering your other thread where you weigh getting a Ferrari against what others might think, it sounds more like you're looking for an assist in a measuring contest. Don't go there.