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Turbo Al said:
The whole problem with the 997 red stripe is, as stated by others, that it is too narrow and looks like a tacky tack-on. The problem is that the designers mangled the tail light re-design by adding extra curves to its lower border, and with the addition of the narrow stripe, this even more accentuates the busy additional curves to the new tail lights.

From Martin's 996 example, here is the 993 example from my 1997 993TT, with a true stripe all 'round the tail. I always felt that the 993's red stripe was acceptable, if not ideal, but the 996 to the 997 with the reconfigured tail lights is less aesthetically optimal:



It looked best here on the 993 but it looked good on the 996 too. On the FL 997 4's it's awful. It looks like they changed the style of the rear lights on the FL 997 just so that they can add the stripe but the whole design just doesnt look good at all. The shape of the rear lights is bad & the stripe makes it worse. It's like they listened to people that said they missed the stripe but by then the shape of the rear lights was different!!! Bring on the 998 these new 997's are terrible looking.