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    What color is this?

    Is it specific to the GT2/ a new color or would my guess about it being Basalt be correct?

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    GT22

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    GT23

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    Looks like standard flat black to me. Too shiny and black to be basalt.

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    Alex (UK) said:
    Looks like standard flat black to me. Too shiny and black to be basalt.



    Dun no was at a dealer yesterday looking at Basalt and it definitely looks very black especially in the shade. This is basalt you dont think it could be the same color?

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    i think the pix are to far away with studioee lighting to tell...my basalt experience was that it looks incredibly good in sun light and not so sunny also.

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    Compare to haudimal's flat black and even the above looks more basalt


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    Here's another pic. I really dont think it's regular black.

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    I remember when I was choosing between Basalt or Regular Black, I had the cars side by side in the same outdoor light. The Basalt was a Carrera GT, the Black a 997. I thought the Black was a richer deeper color with definitely more shine and gloss, IMHO. I went with the black.

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    Thank you Porsche for making the GT2 so ugly that it makes my TT look even nicer in comparison!

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    Porsche promotional photos. Most likely retouched to show the lines of the car better. Hard to tell exactly what color, I think. It looks great though!

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    That is the new porsche color, I beleive the name of it is Simply Bad @ss?

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    I'm glad I have a black on order.

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    It's black. And yes, it's retouched. Standard L741/L041 Porsche Black.

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    RAKLAW said:
    I remember when I was choosing between Basalt or Regular Black, I had the cars side by side in the same outdoor light. The Basalt was a Carrera GT, the Black a 997. I thought the Black was a richer deeper color with definitely more shine and gloss, IMHO. I went with the black.



    Black is definitely more reflective that Basalt. That's the "shine" you're referring to. No other color reflects like Black does. That's also why it's the most difficult color to maintain and shows every mark. I just gave up a black suv on lease and currently have another black suv, I've had a black Impala SS, 3 black BMW's since 1997 including a 2002 M5 and a black 996 turbo. 7 black cars in the last 10 years (unless I'm forgetting any) so I'm intimately familiar w/ black not just from dealer lot comparisons. Love the color but it's really worn on me, it's got the greatest reward imo when you're done detailing but also gives you the most heart-ache. On Sunday a friend and I took a motorcycle ride and we were over in Huntington so we stopped at Porsche Huntington, they were closed but had 2 Basalt Cayenne's outside and so far I'm going to keep my order for the Basalt. It's the second most reflective color next to straight black imo so it's not as easy to maintain as Artic lets say but it has a very interesting metallic flake if you get right up on the paint you can actually see gold & blue flakes in the paint, it makes for a very interesting color especially in the sun. In the shade lower on the car Basalt looks very black but where body panels turn towards the sun the metallic is very cool looking. It's definitely interesting. Basalt is normally a $900 option but Porsche offers it as a no-cost option for the Turbo/Cab, this isn't the reason I'm getting it but just worth mentioning imo. My only reservation is the fact I've never owned Basalt or a Metallic black car. It looks really cool on the dealer lot but am I going to love it when I own it? I still have a couple of months to change my mind but so far I'm keeping Basalt.

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    I have always maintained one of the toughest decisions when you factory order a car is the darn color decision. You would hate to order a car and not be satisfied with the car because every time you saw it you wished you had made a different decison on the color. Glad you got a couple og months before you pull the trigger.

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    Black definitely looks deeper and more evil:




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    BASALT

     
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