993 colours

[Guest]

Is there any register with OPC or PCGB of the numbers of cars of each colour of British 993's? Just curious - no doubt the 2 silvers will take the top spots followed closely by dark blue!

 

[Nick]

Mine is Arena Red Metallic.

Would be interesting to know how many there is in this colour.

 

[delta]

Iris blue with grey leather if we're showing our true colours[]

 

[Mark Elder]

Agree it would be interesting to know.
When I was searching for a black one I was beginning to think there were zero (manual C4 varioram slim-body).
Since buying it I've seen two others.

Presumably Maurice can tell us the colour count from the club register?

 

[leesweeney]

ORIGINAL: adrian robinson

Is there any register with OPC or PCGB of the numbers of cars of each colour of British 993's? Just curious - no doubt the 2 silvers will take the top spots followed closely by dark blue!

I wanted to know and rang both Porsche UK Head office and Ken, Maurice's assistant register secretary and apparently no records kept - at least none than Porsche will divulge.

Shame as I was as interested as you chaps. If you do find anything out, put a posting on the Forum so we can all share.

Cheers

 

[Mark Elder]

But I think colour is one of the questions on the "register" form - so the club at least has lots of sheets of paper with a reasonable sample of colour information (does not mean it's in a database where it's easy to extract a summary).

I might start a count of colours I see (no, not valid, I'm likely to see the same cars over and over again if they live in near Glasgow...)

Saw a purple 993 in London about a month ago.

 

[sailor]

In the current PP there are not one but two black/black 993 turbo's for sale. One is in the yellow paper section and the other on the back cover/Strasse ad.Weird thing is that both have 495bhp engines plus seemingly identical other specs.But the Strasse one asks for £45k approx yet the supposedly private one asks for £60k!
Work that out!
I have never seen or heard of black 993 turbo's.

JohnC
993turbo

 

[johng]

Nick

I like to think of Arena red as popular - not common as my missus thinks

Here's mine

Johng

 

[sailor]

ORIGINAL: Wrinkly Ninja

John
I can't believe that Strasse would ask so much less for the same car - and fail to mention that it had the Turbo S rear Bi-Plane which the other car has. They don't show the Black Turbo on their site...maybe it's just a sales trick to get some enquiries?
By the way, was it you who said in a previous post that you had got your PC to change the park position of your wipers? If so, how much did they charge?
Beau

1. Reckon you're right, wrinkly.

2. Wiper cost minimal. Done by Autostrasse, my Indy, and took five minutes.

JohnC
993turbo

 

[Mark Elder]

ORIGINAL: johng

Nick

I like to think of Arena red as popular - not common as my missus thinks

Here's mine

Johng

John, Think I recognise the car/picture. Am I right in thinking you bought it from a club member who now drives a Cayenne?

 

[Mark Elder]

ORIGINAL: MoC2S

Colour analysis by popularity ..

Very interesting.
Also - that's over 1000 cars in the register (out of 3600 odd imported to UK) - that seems quite good coverage for a car club.

 

[johng]

Mark

Could be.... needed a bit more work than first thought, but seems OK now

Johng

 

[Graham-S]

I have Ocean Blue and it's great. It's Metallic & has a Purl Tint to it in the Sun. Can look a very dark Blue in some light & can be completely different in the sun

Graham

 

[AlexG]

I wouldn't say it is huge difference - but side by side they are obviously different...

 

[38F3E1]

Agree they are different. I would say Ocean is more blue and Midnight is darker. Midnight was the dark blue for cars up to and including 1996 and ocean replaced it for 97 and 98 cars.

Ian.

 

[sebrussellsmith]

thanks guys

 

[Stewart Rix]

Midnight looks blue in all conditions whereas ocean can go from nearly black looking through blue green and a hint of purple depending on how strong and angle of direct sunlight - much more like a pearlescent paint.