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tooner said:
I really should try to find uses for that clock!
One guy used it to time how long he had to wait for his wife while she shopped.
Another used it to shave seconds off his urban commute to work.
I suppose it would be nice to time how long you wait for a bridge to open and close.
any other ideas?
Jul 13, 2005 1:28:01 AM
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69bossnine said:
Stradale, I have that package. And the Porsche description is EXTREMELY misleading and confusing. What you are referring to is the E36 package, MSRP $1550.00. The only "aluminum-look" piece you get that is different than what comes standard is the instrument-surround. Everything else they list, you are correct, already comes in aluminum-look. So it's very redundant.
As for the extra leather, YES, the air-vent slats on ALL air vents are done in leather, to match the rest of your leather. In other words, my air-vent slats are covered in Terracotta leather. It really looks great. Furthermore, instead of bare plastic, the E36 package also gives you stitched leather on your defroster trim under the windshield, and a nifty stitched leather trim around your center dash speaker. All in all I think it's a great package. Whether or not it's worth $1550 is debatable, but I'd do it again.
But it IS weird that they call it an "aluminum look" package, when it really has more to do with additional leather trimming. I have a theory on this. My theory is that the 997 was originally not intended to have all of that aluminum look trim around the air vents as standard equipment. When Porsche executives saw the proposed E36 package in a pre-production car, they thought the aluminum trim looked dynamite, and made a last-minute decision to make it standard on all 997's, rather than optional, because the aluminum plastic probably doesn't cost them a dime more than any other color plastic. But they still retained the "E36" package as an option, so that they could still offer the leather-covered vents and the leather covered upper-dash trim as an upgrade package, as well as adding the aluminum-look gauge surround, which I'm guessing they thought might be a bit over-the-top to have as standard. That's PURELY a theory, but I can think of no other explanation for the confusion and the redundancy of the E36 package, as it is described in the ordering literature.
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Le Chef said:
The look is consistent. However with the other (red, yellow, sand, etc.) colored dials the sports chrono dial is in the standard color for that model. So base 997 the sport chrono dial would be black, and with the 997 S it would be in white.
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pcosta said:
69Bossnine,
Do you have a picture of your interior? I'm considering the package you ordered, but would like to see what it looks like.
Thanks
Paulo
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69bossnine said:
Yes, my father and I collect together. Thanks!
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