stopped by silverstar porsche yesterday and some of the guys were telling me that silver popularity is waning and that red and black are hottest colors for 2005. i'm slightly impartial to red now but i ALWAYS thought black (esp. when clean) is the nicest color. A good example is Darren's black tt- the combo of black with that color interior is HOT!!! How many of you guys would get the same color again if you could and what color would you switch to?

 

Jim, like you said, when clean, I have always been drawn to black................

 

Thanks Billy for the compliment - I will not do black again I do not think b/c the maintenence is just killer to keep it looking like this




I think the next Pcar will be Speed Yellow or back to Silver

 

 

Darren,
I have to agree. Black is a HUGE PITA to keep looking good.
It either is sparkling and amazing or dirty and disgusting!!!
Best,
Ken

 

me too

 

I had a Guards '99, and now a Guards '04. Thought about others, but just couldn't do it. I like just about all of the Porsche colors, but Guards just grabs me.

 

i drove nothing but black cars from 1994 to 2002 ish when i started slowly selling them off for seal grey/titanium type colors. my last black car left a week or two ago and it (black) will NEVER happen again!

 

My other car is black. It's dirty 330 days out of the year. Never get a black car again. If I get another porsche, I'd consider the non metallic flat light grey color. Not sure what they call it. Something that hides dust, dirt, and water stains well.

 

that's not bad colin, my black cars were dirty 366 days of the year! these titanium, seal type colors allow me to wash my cars once a month or two and they still look cleaner most of the time than my black cars did hours after they were cleaned. black cars scratch when you just look at em crosseyed, and the light colored primer shows all rock chips badly against black (this is even worse on porsche's soft paint). but man does black look good when it is clean. it's a real love/hate relationship. black on a car is not a color, it's a "hobby".

 

My former 993 was black and my present 996 is red. I will always believe that red and black are the truest colors for a sports car.

 

red and black are always nice, but it's impossible to keep it clean & hide the swarl.

 

very beautiful Darren, it is super shinny, did you photoshop it?

 

No way bro....the "new generation" of 911's (post 993) are too big to look good in red. Red looked great on the 911/964/993's .
Now Ferrari's are something else and red looks great regardless of size. Black is nice but shows too many scratches and hides the lines of the car. I'm gonna stick to the various tones of silver Porsche puts out.

 

nope thats the true pic - taken with this new little sony cybershot 7.2 MP camera