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Old 04-08-2017, 03:53 PM
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Default Saffron Yellow

Any pics out there yet? Sounds amazing!
Maybe a modern version of signal yellow?

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They call it mellow yellow.
Old 04-09-2017, 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Pez D. Spencer
They call it mellow yellow.
Quite rightly.
Old 04-10-2017, 08:42 AM
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Old 04-10-2017, 09:11 AM
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Interesting. My bicycle is "saffron yellow" and the colour is gorgeous.

Now... it's around 20 years old so there's obviously no relation, but if the Porsche colour ends up remotely similar I think it'll be a home run.

It's a metallic paint with a sort of pearl effect. Here's a pic just to tease the colour.
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found these on Facebook/instagram :
absolutely love it









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Gimme!!
Very different than RY.
Here is a recent pic as a reference
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Much darker, more mature. I like it!
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I thought Saffron Yellow was for the Turbo/S models only.

Either way that yellow on the new Gt3 looks awesome
Old 05-08-2017, 11:50 PM
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I like it.
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looks like signal yellow
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Originally Posted by bernpep
Maybe a modern version of signal yellow?
Or the elusive 'Signal Orange', a historic/vintage color
also from the early 911 period, that was was recently
rejected for PTS.







Here is what I posted re: 'Saffron' on another thread
in the gt3 forum:






Originally Posted by Z356
Mike: This photo is probably digitally enhanced.
So we have yet to see how 'Saffron' looks to the
human eye. Indeed it looks like 'Signal Yellow' in
that photo...or 'Signal Orange'. I will venture to
guess that it will be less striking a hue in person.
But that is purely a speculation given my experience
with pearl & metallic paints! However if the 'Saffron'
color turns out to really look like this, it then would
explain why 'Signal Orange' was recently rejected
for PTS. It would be surprisingly close...



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The 'Saffron' .2 991 gt3 photos are apparently taken from
an internet site posted by Will Lee in Instagram:



http://www.igcol.com/user/ptsrs

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I am familiar with Ferrari's expensive optional color
'Giallo Triplo Strato'. And it's a bit 'too' intense &
'loud' for my taste.



This was the Ferrari color that Chaosoul mentioned as to
what perhaps PAG was shooting for with its new 'Saffron'
hue. But in my opinion, 'Giallo Triplo Strato' is a more
suitable color to an Italian 'Prancing Horse' than to the
'stud' which is the city of Stuttgart's symbolic Equus!








I really do not understand why PAG would do a .2 991 gt3
press car in 'Saffron' unless they intend to allow this new
color to be ordered on this gt model. But who knows what
PAG is up today re: paint colors!
Post #387

https://rennlist.com/forums/991-gt3-...8-ball-26.html

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Originally Posted by golfnutintib
looks like speed yellow
'Speed Yellow'? Not by a long shot!

See another one of my post from same thread as
above & relevant photos of the old 'Speed Yellow':

Originally Posted by Z356
Nein. 'Racing Yellow' is a brand new color
formulated & introduced in 2011 for the
start of the .1 991 model production
(Fall of 2011). In the US, we first saw
an example in a Euro spec car brought
by PAG/PCNA to Rennsport IV that Fall
at Laguna Seca (CA):





'Racing Yellow' has quite a bit of green tint
that reminds many of the Lemon fruit:






And quite a contrast to the 'Speed Yellow' it
replaced in the standard PAG color palette:







Saludos,
Eduardo
Now back in Scottsdale


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Hmm...it's just me or it looks super taxi like color...sorry guys
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Default Hmmm...

I like it, reminds me of Talbot Yellow
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+1. For comparison, here is my Speed Yellow 996.2 GT3.



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