Why did I go with a PTS color?
I will borrow the words of Bramptonmel (from the UK macanforum in 2016):
“Trying to spec my Macan Turbo on order and I'm really struggling to get excited about the standard colours offered by Porsche. The only interesting one is Sapphire blue otherwise it is black, almost black, so dark blue it might as well be black, metallic black, white, white, not the best silver, poo, and old lady gold.”
This matched how I felt precisely. In my case, I already had a Sapphire Blue Turbo. I liked Carmine red but thought I might get tired of it. So naturally the only possible course of action was Paint to Sample. It’s not a small decision at $6500.
The color needed to look appropriate to the car as a seemingly semi-normal “Daddy-Wagon” toting our 4-year-old around and also appropriate for the hospital, nice restaurant or country club, so something like Tangerine or Viper Green wouldn’t work. Many grays (Nardo, Fashion, Grigio Teslo, Slate Gray) looked nice but gray in general was too common for the car.
Browsing Porsche history I really liked Aventurine Green, Fish Silver Gray, Venetian Blue, and Malachite Green. Of those, only Malachite Green was available (“approved” PTS for Macan)
PCNA Exclusive sent a list of about 30 other Macan approved blues and greens for me to peruse. Fjord Blue was tempting. Some they had no sample of (Barnato Green) and I was even given the option to even match a color I sent them (the proverbial “wife’s scarf), for $23,000 and another 4-6 months of feasibility testing (no cost if it failed). In the end it was the Malachite that won.
I’ll have to wait another 3 months for them to finish it, but it should be gorgeous, and a unicorn. I have only found one other Malachite Green Macan on the internet and it’s Euro-spec so I doubt I’ll run into them any time soon in Virginia! [emoji12] (see below)
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