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STRADALE said:
Al,
Didn't your S come with the painted GT-Silver wheels ? I know that pictures usually don't show the 996 Turbo S wheel that well but those look like the standard Turbo wheels.
Stradale,
AFAIK, my wheels are the standard "Turbo Twist" wheels for the 996Turbo and TurboS-in fact, I thought there was only one standard "turbo" wheel (not a distinct one for the Turbo S different from the base turbo), with the same hollow 5-spoke pseudo-pinwheel design that is similar to the 993Turbo wheel-partly the reason I like it and hope that even if PAG makes a new "standard" turbo-design wheel that they keep the 5-spoke "turbo-twist" design as an option. In fact, PAG even touts this wheel design as being aerodynamically efficient as they state in their "Turbo S Coupe and Cabriolet" brochure that the "profiled spokes help reduce lift and improve braking by drawing warm air from the brake discs out around the sides of the car instead of beneath the chassis." I don't know if this is hyperbole or even reliably measurable an effect on the drag coefficient. Maybe one of the smart engineers on this forum could chime in.
The 18" Turbo hollow spoke light alloy wheels "painted in GT silver metallic with colored Porsche crests" are "standard" (no charge!
), code 410.
The 18" "GT3" wheel option (code 416) and 18" "Sport Techno monobloc light alloy wheels" (code XRC) were $ options (I don't know how much), but as I said, I prefer the Turbo Twisties, so here's hoping the 993/996 Turbo Twist wheels somehow make their way onto the 997TT-they'll just have to make 19 (? or 20) inchers as RC alluded to!
There is an extra option of wheels painted in exterior body color, but to me GT silver is classic, and anything else is a bit too white trash for me-just my opinion. So, to answer your question, maybe ny digital camera doesn't do justice to it, but I think these are "GT silver."