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Arena Red

Personally, nearly every car I have bought has been on condition and price which is why I ended up with a Silver one with a boxster red interior, if you've found an A1 car and everything stacks up and you like the colour combo then that should be the car for you.

The Arena Red versions need to really be kept as garage queens in the UK and look stunning when deeply waxed and in sunlight, have a look at some of the pictures on Rennlist to see what I mean likewise the metallic blue and black http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforums/forumdisplay.php?f=62 the silver will absorb some road dirt and still look stunning but there is rather a lot of us!

 
Can't resist adding my comments.

For me, colour is not as important as condition/price etc. Jeez, they all look beautiful don't they? My first 911 (a 964) was white, hell I didn't care what the colour was; it even took me two weeks to spot that I had co-incidentally bought a car with a license plate with my exact initials in it. Honest to gods. I ended up really enjoying white. It kept clean a lot longer than the darker colours and the new 997's look great in white, even if they are water cooled-tinpots.

I just keep asking myself "am I weird to keep on drooling over these damn cars" as I stand in my garage and stare at my shining ocean blue 993 whilst secretly enjoying it's aroma. I'm relieved to know I'm not the only one.

As I've said before the only other car I desire....is another one. . . . .Maybe in Arena Red?
 
No such things as a "˜duff' exterior colour, but there have been some 'eccentric' choices of interior/exterior combinations. One of the worst is silver outside, marble leather inside. Just wrong. But plentiful.

I like silver (Oooh Ouch) 1st 911 was granite green. Not green but a greenish silver.

Then I fell in love with polar silver - at the same time disliking artic silver - Polar is bluer and softer... (Cue anorak smiley)

But because condition is all I still nearly bought a dark blue one!
 
Buying a second hand car is all about compromise! After all you are buying what the first owner sat down with a saleman (he had probably spent days before deciding) and requested what his new pride and joy should look like.

I have found that the best approach to buying second hand car is to make a list of 'must have' and a list of 'nice to have' and from the colour range 'dont want'

In my list of must have the colour would appear. I know some people wont agree but I know if you compromise on colour
everytime you open that garage door youll be saying 'if only it was'

John

P.S. When making my wish list (even recent BMW purchased) go to local dealer and look with colour chart in hand - mark off what you dont like - it can save you a awfull lot of miles travelling to see a colour thats not acceptable!
 
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