Jul 25, 2005 5:25:41 AM
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Jul 25, 2005 1:51:28 PM
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Jul 25, 2005 2:09:10 PM
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Re: Colored Seat Stiching
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Blame PCNA!!
On my factory tour it was noted that many tailoring options are available for ROW and not USA.
It is a PCNA decision that puzzles the ties in Germany
Whoa! Are you saying that PCNA tells Porsche in Germany that they shouldn't offer Americans certain options offered ROW and that Porsche listens?
Jul 25, 2005 3:12:35 PM
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Re: Colored Seat Stiching
All black 997 interiors already have deviated stitching kinda - The stitching is charcoal. I've seen silver deviated stitching in 996's that looked great. If I could get silver deviated stitching on a black interior 997 with GT-Silver & or Artic I would.
Besides the fact that the deviated stitching in that picture (red stitching in the 997) isn't complete (it's missing in places) red stitching just doesn't look good in Porsche's like it does in Ferrari's. For the Challenge Stradale red stitching was standard and it looks great imo. In Ferrari's devaited stitching like in the below pics looks much better. Even more so in person.
Besides the fact that the deviated stitching in that picture (red stitching in the 997) isn't complete (it's missing in places) red stitching just doesn't look good in Porsche's like it does in Ferrari's. For the Challenge Stradale red stitching was standard and it looks great imo. In Ferrari's devaited stitching like in the below pics looks much better. Even more so in person.
Jul 25, 2005 3:45:24 PM
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Jul 25, 2005 3:46:33 PM
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It would be nicer if the stitching on the shifter boot and the hand brake were red too instead of white. How silly.
Holy Cow!
Good point Low..., Wow. Where's that "Excellence Was Expected" philosophy? Now that you astutely pointed out something that I would have eventually noticed too: that's a shame the shift boot and hand brake are missing deviated stitches. 
It just shows how "modular" Porsche component/assembly is. IOW, they couldn't manage to get the shift boot and ebrake supplier to change the color of the thread in their sewing machines. They could only get the dash leather and seat leather suppliers to do it. WHO at Porsche thought, "Oh, our customers will never notice!" You're Fiiiiired!
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red stitching just doesn't look good in Porsche's like it does in Ferrari's.
yeah, good point, Porsche is just naturally more low key (not that there's anything wrong with that). I've seen one Fcar in person with that look. really niiiiiice in person. It's like Ferrari can do ANYTHING "outrageous" and it looks great.
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It would be nicer if the stitching on the shifter boot and the hand brake were red too instead of white. How silly.
Holy Cow!
It just shows how "modular" Porsche component/assembly is. IOW, they couldn't manage to get the shift boot and ebrake supplier to change the color of the thread in their sewing machines. They could only get the dash leather and seat leather suppliers to do it. WHO at Porsche thought, "Oh, our customers will never notice!" You're Fiiiiired!
Doubt it highly that it was requested and Porsche made a mistake. More likely the customer didn't specify the stitching for the hand-brake, shifter or it wasn't available. Also, I'm pretty sure Porsche does the "dash leather" and "seat leather" stitching at Porsche not at other suppliers.
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red stitching just doesn't look good in Porsche's like it does in Ferrari's.
yeah, good point, Porsche is just naturally more low key (not that there's anything wrong with that). I've seen one Fcar in person with that look. really niiiiiice in person. It's like Ferrari can do ANYTHING "outrageous" and it looks great.
YUP!
Pic below of a 996 TT "S" Cab I almost bought. Silver deviated stitching on the seats, doors and dash. Looked really nice
Jul 25, 2005 8:20:27 PM
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Re: Colored Seat Stiching
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Doubt it highly that it was requested and Porsche made a mistake. More likely the customer didn't specify the stitching for the hand-brake, shifter or it wasn't available. Also, I'm pretty sure Porsche does the "dash leather" and "seat leather" stitching at Porsche not at other suppliers.
I'm obviously not informed about of the details, just trying to illustrate what might account for the missing red stitches on the ebrake and shifter boot.
It's really "awful" that there's conflictng stitching color. It's like the sport chrono dial being white when the customer orders colored guages.
IOW, why put type of verbiage in their brochures where they say how proud they are to build cars with "no compromises?"
"Wow the all the guage cluster dial colors don't match the sport chrono! Must have been the way the customer ordered them."
I dunno. I feel bad for the guy who orders red guages and gets a white SC.
Jul 25, 2005 8:55:26 PM
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Jul 25, 2005 9:38:19 PM
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Jul 25, 2005 9:45:21 PM
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Re: Colored Seat Stiching
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Trundle997S said:
Blame PCNA!!
On my factory tour it was noted that many tailoring options are available for ROW and not USA.
It is a PCNA decision that puzzles the ties in Germany
Whoa! Are you saying that PCNA tells Porsche in Germany that they shouldn't offer Americans certain options offered ROW and that Porsche listens?
PCNA is the exclusive importer, marketer, and distributor of Porsche automobiles for the United States.
They make the decisions about what options are made available to their dealers who are their customers.
Many of the tailoring options are not released/avvailable in the US simply at the sole discretion of PCNA.
In the US forget about exclusive (special wishes) options.
On my tour of the factory, on the wall at a staircase landing near the lleather shop was a leather color display board with no less than 50 leather colors arranged in groups blacks, browns, reds, blues.
It was said that the europeans are use to ordering and waiting for a car, the american market is more geared towards instant gratification, buying a car available on the floor.
I guess PCNA just wants to keep things as simple as possible
Jul 25, 2005 11:54:40 PM
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Re: Colored Seat Stiching
Trundle 997S said: It was said that the europeans are use to ordering and waiting for a car, the american market is more geared towards instant gratification, buying a car available on the floor.
I'm in south Florida and I deal with the largest volume Porsche dealership in the world. My salesman told me that over 90% of the cars they sell are special ordered to customer specs. By the way, I live in a community of 255 homes and we have 28 Porsche's living here! Not a bad average.
I'm in south Florida and I deal with the largest volume Porsche dealership in the world. My salesman told me that over 90% of the cars they sell are special ordered to customer specs. By the way, I live in a community of 255 homes and we have 28 Porsche's living here! Not a bad average.
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