Mamba Green and Cherry Red colors are gone

[TAYC4S]

Looks great in photos (just like Carmine Red does) however in real life in non brilliant sunshine disappoints unfortunately.

Agreed - It never has that appearance in the flesh - there is one down the road from me and I always sad by how it looks but it might also be good old British weather playing a role...

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[jakeCT]

With mamba green disappearing- I have this issue of the Porsche magazine and found this funny.

Reminds me of: Apple says it took 'courage' to remove the headphone jack on the iPhone 7 https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/7/12838024/apple-iphone-7-plus-headphone-jack-removal-courage

 

[Sarah's dog chariot]

My Porsche SA called me this morning after I sent him a text earlier asking about my Mamba Green GTS ST on order. He reassured me that these changes are from MY24 onwards so don't affect my order which has a build week around 12th June. If everything goes to plan, I should have one of the last Mamba Green cars.

me too!! there's something about it being discontinued that confirms how bad ass ( or just bad!!) my taste is ! hahaha ! can't wait )))

 

[W1NGE]

IIRC, Porsche has only ever put GT Silver on their sports cars.

Porsche would argue that all of their cars are sports cars!

GT Silver was available on the Panamera.

I had it on my Boxster S and it sparkled.

 

[Ross]

I have only seen coffee in photos and liked it, though I prefer to drink coffee black.

I love a nice metallic burgundy and the cherry changes colour with the light, though not as much as Mamba which is amazing and doesn’t show the dirt as badly as I expected.

Here is my ever so personal take on these colours
I like Cherry - I had a metallic burgundy Renault Alpine GTA V6 Turbo a long, long time ago.
I ordered a Cherry Turbo (silver trim and wheels)
Flipped to GTS on launch day and went Crayon (again) because looks smokin hot with all the contrasting black bits on a GTS
Saw a Frozenberry GTS at Preston - Stunning, wish I had had the nuts to go for it.
(It was their demo and for sale for ages at 10k less than all other GTS cars at OPCs so its not popular)
The Porsche South Lakes demo Cherry GTS sold much faster than the Preston Frozenberry for 10k more.

I like Mamba but my wife says green cars are unlucky...... ?
I don't understand either.

Not too upset about Mahogany - makes a Taycan look like the worlds fastest coffin.

Coffee beige...... I had a friend who bought a Vauxhall Astra Belmont in beige in about 1990
He got ribbed mercilessly about Hearing Aid Beige. He sold it after 3 months.

 

[f1eng]

I like Mamba but my wife says green cars are unlucky

Is she from the USA?
That is the only place I have heard it, and it was taboo to run green cars at Indy until Lotus turned up and won.

 

[Ross]

Is she from the USA?
That is the only place I have heard it, and it was taboo to run green cars at Indy until Lotus turned up and won.

I have heard it from somewhere - Perhaps the same source as you?
I don't know where she got it from, I don't think she does either!
She is pretty adamant. I can live with it.
White and black is also verboten at the moment. We have had too many and they are 'boring' apparently.
The rest of the palate is available to me thankfully. All the colours of the rainbow.
Including Crayon (/Chalk)

 

[jkoya]

I'm sad to see the loss of Mamba Green as a color option. To me, it looks amazing at any time of the day. This was taken just before sunrise this morning at the local grocery store....

 

[007]

I know that everyone wants my personal opinion, and I have a lot of biased opinions, about all the available Porsche colors… so…
let’s…
get…
started…

Long live chalk/crayon!



Happy Thursday everyone!

 

[Ross]

Matt Farah got his 718 Spyder in Frozen Berry (after the first one sunk into the ocean) and boy did he get a lot of flak for it online, but I have a feeling it may be one of those Porsache colors where the appreciation for it grows years from now.

LOVE the exterior colour. Love it.
Callipers should be black

But with a red interior.
Oh dear.
Its a NO from me Matt

 

[f1eng]

LOVE the exterior colour. Love it.
Callipers should be black

But with a red interior.
Oh dear.
Its a NO from me Matt

Frozen Berry requires a Blackberry interior IMHO

 

[Englishtony2002]

Here is my ever so personal take on these colours
I like Cherry - I had a metallic burgundy Renault Alpine GTA V6 Turbo a long, long time ago.
I ordered a Cherry Turbo (silver trim and wheels)
Flipped to GTS on launch day and went Crayon (again) because looks smokin hot with all the contrasting black bits on a GTS
Saw a Frozenberry GTS at Preston - Stunning, wish I had had the nuts to go for it.
(It was their demo and for sale for ages at 10k less than all other GTS cars at OPCs so its not popular)
The Porsche South Lakes demo Cherry GTS sold much faster than the Preston Frozenberry for 10k more.

I like Mamba but my wife says green cars are unlucky...... ?
I don't understand either.

Not too upset about Mahogany - makes a Taycan look like the worlds fastest coffin.

Coffee beige...... I had a friend who bought a Vauxhall Astra Belmont in beige in about 1990
He got ribbed mercilessly about Hearing Aid Beige. He sold it after 3 months.

I am totally with you on the choice of Crayon. Originally had Cherry Metallic 4S on order - waited 13 months for a build slot to be told another 4-5 wait, gave up and managed to locate a Crayon Turbo - now in love.

 

[annieland]

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en_US/...klassik-designer-daniela-milosevic-25346.html

I don't think Frozen Berry, Blue, and Coffee Beige are on the chopping block. They were part of the whole original Taycan color development. As said in this article, they "Created an ice collection, a metallic trio consisting of Frozenblue, Frozenberry and Coffee Beige. "We picked up the pastel world to perfectly convey electrification," says Milošević."

 

[FrozenBerries]

https://newsroom.porsche.com/en_US/...klassik-designer-daniela-milosevic-25346.html

I don't think Frozen Berry, Blue, and Coffee Beige are on the chopping block. They were part of the whole original Taycan color development. As said in this article, they "Created an ice collection, a metallic trio consisting of Frozenblue, Frozenberry and Coffee Beige. "We picked up the pastel world to perfectly convey electrification," says Milošević."

That’s good to know- if the frozen colors are out, I’ll just cancel and buy another car that also comes in boring colors. To be honest the interesting colors were a huge draw for us.

 

[WindsurfUS1111]

Who gives a fuck about colors?
My 2023 Taycan has sat at dealers for 5 weeks of 12 weeks of ownership to fix day one problems.
Seems Porsche could care less and unresponsive.
I’ve never owned a new car with problems dealers can’t fix.
Set up a case number with Porsche and even then they are unresponsive.

worse than US manufacturers on a 110k car

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