Why did you choose your colour?
I see a lot of debate about which colour looks better so I thought I would start a thread about it 
I own a guards red 986 + black interior + black hood. I bought it off the showroom floor because I needed another car quickly (wrote off my previous car in an accident a few days before). When I went car shopping, I had in mind a dark blue colour - perhaps midnight blue or lapis with a cream yellow leather interior.
I brought a friend along and when we saw the GR 986 at the dealers he immediately fell for it. He had always pooh-pooh'ed my idea for a dark coloured Porsche. He said "if you get a Toyota you get a dark colour. If you get a Ford it's a dark blue. Why do you want to spend so much money on a Porsche and not have it stand out?"
I still didn't like it at first - I thought the GR was a bit too loud, a bit too garish. I'm a fairly low key kind of guy and I didn't think it would suit my personality.
I returned to the dealer the next day and looked at the car again. Then something magical happened - it looked back at me and suddenly I could see the great old Porsches of the past. At that very moment I realized I was wrong and a dark blue colour for my Porsche would be wrong. A little seed was planted in my head when I was a kid and taken for a ride in my dad's friend's new 911. It was guards red with a black interior - just like mine now.
I bought it and I won't have another Porsche in any other colour.
I own a guards red 986 + black interior + black hood. I bought it off the showroom floor because I needed another car quickly (wrote off my previous car in an accident a few days before). When I went car shopping, I had in mind a dark blue colour - perhaps midnight blue or lapis with a cream yellow leather interior.
I brought a friend along and when we saw the GR 986 at the dealers he immediately fell for it. He had always pooh-pooh'ed my idea for a dark coloured Porsche. He said "if you get a Toyota you get a dark colour. If you get a Ford it's a dark blue. Why do you want to spend so much money on a Porsche and not have it stand out?"
I still didn't like it at first - I thought the GR was a bit too loud, a bit too garish. I'm a fairly low key kind of guy and I didn't think it would suit my personality.
I returned to the dealer the next day and looked at the car again. Then something magical happened - it looked back at me and suddenly I could see the great old Porsches of the past. At that very moment I realized I was wrong and a dark blue colour for my Porsche would be wrong. A little seed was planted in my head when I was a kid and taken for a ride in my dad's friend's new 911. It was guards red with a black interior - just like mine now.
I bought it and I won't have another Porsche in any other colour.
