that is a great color, looks great at night and during the day under full sun.
Also stays clean pretty well.
If I was looking for a totally obnoxious color for my next fully optioned Pcar
I would go for that in a heart beat, maybe yellow but all yellows are not the same.

You know, I was willing to pay the $45,000+ sticker for their car because it's a limited vehicle. They pissed me off, so I'm probably going to buy the Dodge. In 2001, I wanted to buy my wife the new T-Bird. It was the same story, $8,500 over sticker. Two years later, they couldn't give those T-Birds away and eventually discontinued them. Right there, that's 85 grand that I wanted to give to Ford. They chose to lose it to other car companies. I bleed Ford Blue, but how many times do you think I'll allow them to reject me before I don't even consider Ford when choosing a car? If I live 40 more years, I'll likely buy 40 more cars (assuming Ellen and I can still drive into our 80s). That's 1.6 million in sales that may very well go elsewhere. And I'm just one customer.

...forest for the trees...

Nick, I'll remind you of this statement when I show up someday at a Chicago PCA event in my orange 911 Carrera GT3 RS!! :)

FYI- My kids buy me stuff all the time that's orange for Father's Day, Birthday and Christmas. And most of the pictures they draw me have orange as the major color!!

Hmm, my brother-in-law works for Chrysler Europe - I hope they don't split, that will hit him and my sister pretty hard. That relationship has been very good for Chrysler

Yeah, I heard the same thing about the rediculous overhead costs. I want to place the blame on our lovely unions, but I really don't have any information to support my position.

You wouldn't have to look far to find the evidence to place blame for this mess squarely on the shoulders of the unions. As much as I'd like to feel sorry for the American auto worker, I can't. Did they really think that the American car makers were going to be able to support this pyramid forever? The factory workers weren't crying when they went out on strike after strike, always looking for more, more, more and holding the industry hostage. A few weeks ago one of the big evening news shows had a good story about the whole mess. They said the average auto worker's salary is six digits, counting O.T. but not benefits. Now we're supposed to feel sorry for them while they cry on TV about losing their jobs and acting like the world owes them something? The truth of the matter is that their greed drove the American Auto Makers into the ground and the unions were holding the reins. How long did the unions think the automakers could stay one up on the Asian manufacturers while supporting those salaries, benefits and retirement packages?

thats just it, they didn't think, just grab the $$$ and run

if any of them were smart, they have been saving for this rainy day you know was coming.

what is really sad is it is leading to the failure of the companies

and failed companies can't pay for retirees health insurance, can they?

It was a big rusted out piece of body filler the day it went to the junkyard. Was probably crushed and made into coke cans. :(

I would not mind getting a new but I could never get it serviced where I live.

Bmuss,

I will worship you if you show up in a Orange RS ( especially if you give me a ride :p ).

Just be sure to give me first dibs before you trade in that beautiful white Boxster of yours :D !

Nick

Theoretically, those funds should be in a fund somewhere and protected.

Interesting, but the management still had to agree to the contract and the average auto worker in Japan makes about the same as an old line US worker so maybe the real issue is productivity. In fact if you think about it a bit why is it that Toyota, Honda, Kia & Hyndai can build plants in the USA and still make money, must be that productivity/management and building something that people want to puchase can make the difference.


Just my 2 cents and I am not a bleeding heart as I have moved several factories to low cost countries and will do so when it makes cent$. :rolleyes:

Toyota in particular pay very well and trat their employees like gold just to keep the UAW out of their North American operations.

bmussatti -

This is so you:

SWEET! Thanks for thinking about me! :D Do you need my shipping address?

Ya know, 98Boxster, even "Rossie O" would look good in that car!

Well, actually I was was angling to get a ride when you bought it. :rolleyes: I think it look great.

I like the orange. A friend of mine has a '76 911 in "continental" orange. Seems similar to the new GT3-RS pic colors. Another friend had a signal orange 914. I guess the 1970's were good to Orange (think safety colors). While not a standard Boxster color, Porsche will paint your car to match ANY color, for a fee (likely $3-5K).

Orange exterior, White interior. mmm Creamsicles shall rise up again!

Man, I've gotta do it.

http://www.topdrawers.com/underwear/jim/jim-orange-stripe-skinz-boxster.html

No pics when you buy it, K?

OK, now to actually be helpful.

http://www.pbase.com/pb12/image/68220207
http://www.pbase.com/pb12/image/68220209

Cheers!

JPOG

Very cool, Jpog, thanks!! :)

No worries. :cheers: