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Old 10-02-2006, 04:25 PM   #1
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All Porsches should have rear and front badges. It's blashpemous to do otherwise.

With a dark grey car I think silver dials would look better than white.

Skip the embossed headrests I have them on my GT3 seats and its like logo overkill: Wheel caps, steering wheel, hood, rear trunk, center console, license plate....

I've actually considered selling my Boxster for a 550 edition '04 at some point.
Cocoa top might be nice but only if you had the cocoa interior to match.
Terracotta is a very bright color I think it would clash with a brown top
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What about my dropping the White Dials & Headrest Crest...

And getting the Sycamore Wood Package ($890) which includes: "trip strip wswitch panel incl. cupholder trim, five part gear lever or Triptronic slector, handbreak lever" to break up the Terracotta leather colors inside???

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OK...and I'm dying to know...

Why the Boxster is "The Driver's Porsche"...

Thanks for enlightening me!
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Old 10-02-2006, 05:13 PM   #4
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And getting the Sycamore Wood Package ($890) which includes: "trip strip wswitch panel incl. cupholder trim, five part gear lever or Triptronic slector, handbreak lever" to break up the Terracotta leather colors inside???

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I have the Sycamore Wood Package, and LOVE it. It looks great with the Sand Beige leather. Just the right amount of wood. Not over done. The wood center console and door closure thing gets too over done IMHO.

I don't know how it would look with your leather choice though.

Here is how the Sycamore looks, this is not my car though:
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Old 10-02-2006, 06:11 PM   #6
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Spy,

If you insist on Terracotta inside, then definitely Black top. You better see the Terracotta in person, though. It's much redder than on some photos. Cinnamon may be a better brown option for which a Cocoa top may work nicely.

Forget extra crests anywhere. I think we're sometimes overdoing things just because we have them as options. ADDING a crest as an option. DELETING the sign from the back, again as an option. Sometimes less (choosing, options) is more.

Carrara White dials makes no sense. You already have white dials standard.

Forget extra wood inside. Just doesn't go with the gunmetal hues throughout the cabin. Too busy. Personally, I think the Black interior looks the best with those metalic hues and the white dials. I'm not a designer, but IMHO, the brown and especially the standard beige interriors don't go with the metalic motives inside. For the browns, wood (and no metalic hues) would work perfectly. Example: BMW with their Aluminim or Wood interior options. It's either one, or the other -- not both at the same time. Since Porsche doesn't allow for full ellimination of the metallic motive, and the browns only go with wood, the Black leather pretty much remained as the only way to go for me -- and I love it. If the interrior wood motives came standard with it, I would have paid extra for the option to get rid of them ("delete wood" option ).

As we said before... These are all very personal choices and feelings. You will be the one living with them for the next 10 years, so just pick what YOU like better.
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Old 10-02-2006, 06:24 PM   #7
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I saw the Terracotta in two different vehicles...

...and like it a lot.

Looks like I'll be dropping the white dials!!!!

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"I saw the Terracotta in two different vehicles...
...and like it a lot."


Great. That simplifies things then. Black top. I haven't seen this combo (meteor gray/terracotta/black) but I have a feeling it will look great.
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