When I had my Arctic Silver 996 it seemed that every other car was silver.
Now that I have an Seal Grey 997 it seems that every other car is grey.

I love both colors. Understated class.

I never could understand the varieties of silvers and greys Porsche produces.
They all look pretty much alike on the road.

 

Very nice spec.

 

Boring and Porsche does not belong in the same sentence.

Silver is the classic color that will not go away.

Congrats!

 

looks awesome, no need for sat radio or nav at all! garmin does the trick. great colors, and glad you got the 6-speed. looks like you'll be rowing the boat like some of the rest of us on here

 

I do not agree.

But anyway, NAV kit can be purshased from suncoastporsche for 2.3K somewhat and for $500 or so dealer will install it.

Dealers sell same kits for $2.8K I think. I did it, and I think new car would benefit from it too. External Garmin is not nearly as neat as an embedded navigation.

 

$2.8k for something that you can pick up for $200, and transfer from car to car. plus you don't have to worry about paying big money to get the maps updated every year.

but hey i guess if you own a porsche, it's automatically assumed that you can afford the nav.

 

I did mine for solely intent to make all buttons on PCM to do something.
I have Garmin also and actually would say - Porsche nav works instantaneously when you get into it and Garmin usually takes long time to track down satellites when you turn it in while driving. Plus this new 2007 set of maps is pretty comprehensive, in 2009 Nav I think they even added live traffic etc. so it is probably not that bad.

I used it may be only once after I got it there but my kid likes to press 'map' every time he reaches it, so, what`s the heck. It`s just money so it would go down to toilet anyway if not spent on this.

 

90% of the buttons on my dash do nothing. I do not have a phone, nav, adjustable wing, etc. I find it comical. People look at it and say it looks complicated and I say "nope, just these 6 buttons actually do something".

 

Can't say I agree with the first statement. I don't give a damn about buttons.

But the second statement is pretty cool.

 

Heh. Comical you say.

As of having bluetooth phone option in a car with manual transmission - it is a MUST. You do not know what are you missing. I use blackberry at work so for me it was a clear necessity, I almost crashed during first week trying to drive and operate this phone.
It is extremely convenient to be able to just hit a button on PCM while you are driving - music stops automatically when somebody rings you and you can have a conversation without reaching to a phone, opening it, typing in password, pressing buttons, etc. It was very first mod I had to do.

Navigation - well, for me it does matter. And yes, the feel of 'completeness' matters to me even more. It just extremely annoying to press on something and see - 'not available'. What the heck 'not available' in $90K car?!

 

Love Arctic with Black, my first 997 had the same colour combo. Congrats!

 

comical = way of laughing away the pain and disgust of not having it on such a pricey car.

I see your points and if mine were a DD then those options would be a MUST.

 

The nav system in 977.1 PCM is just sad...what's really comical is they actually ask that much money for it. Even the nav in a Toyota from 5 years ago blows it away. I'd take one if it came with the car for free, but only because it makes all the PCM buttons work like utkinpol said. Even the iphone google map works better.

 

Congrats on the car and color is great. If my 997 was a daily driver, Silver or white would be my first choice.

 

Congrats, love the 997.2's in any color.