Unpopular because of the low roi

 

Low ROI??? Unless you have an absolutely awful color you'll do better with PTS! That's why people pay more for it in the first place.

Tom

 

ROI is not why I bought my PTS car. For the right buyer, these cars have a very strong appeal, but color preference is very subjective. Strong and unusual colors are going to appeal to fewer Porsche buyers, but when the right person sees the right PTS car, it's love at first sight...

 

Gorgeous - congrats!

 

Agreed.....much closer.

 

Nice, Thanks for the pics. Dont see that color often!!!!

 

My comment wasn't meant to detract from your purchase. More as to offer insight as to why it is not more popular.

Upon attempting to sell, it often alienates the car from the rest of the market (either positive or negative) and will not recoup the $5k+ it originally cost.

With that being said, I love the PTS blues.

 

very nice, wonder why it looks so much different depending on light??? I guess you don t see too many of yourself driving around (that s a good thing)....

 

KK, I understand. It's definitely an acquired taste. I think the older non-metallic colors have a lot of color depth and are much less reflective. That's why they may look very different in different lights. The car is basically blue-green. My wife is an excellent photographer, but we still have not been able to capture the true color in bright sunlight. When I get it, I will definitely post new pix.

 

Mexico Blue on a GT3 is my next Purchase!! After the Carrera White Panamera-GTS

 

Dude love the color

 

The reason that it looks so different sometimes is because the color of the light that the picture was taken in plays a role in how the camera (and our eyes to a degree) see things.

When the car is very much more blue, there is a lot more blue light present. In the first pics in this thread the car is in shade it appears. I took one of those photos and color balanced so that the white on the wall in the background is actually a shade of light light gray instead of the much more blue color in the original photograph. In this photo the color of the car should look closer to how it does in real life.

Honestly I quite prefer the more more heavily blue influenced color in your original pic. Murano green is still a very pretty color though. The picture of the sister car doesn't quite look the same as this. The color balance in that photo wasn't off by much because it is in direct sunlight. Is the sister car also Murano Green?

Derek

 

Thanks for trying Derek, but now the car looks too grey-blue. It really is blue-green. Think Miami Dolphins' home uniform. Not an exact match, but closer than ConEd blue! But, as you suggested, the light makes all the difference. We will get it right eventually.

Three of these cars were ordered in Murano Green by Euroclassics in Richmond in 2008: mine, a sister coupe shown in the photo, and a cab. I agree that the sister car shot looks too green.