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iwantdsg
 Post subject: What colour is this?
PostPosted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 10:53 pm 
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During my ongoing hunt for a 44 I found this newly advertised S2, but I've never seen this colour before. It's not Guards red or the darker Burgundy that my brother's car was, so what's it's Porsche name and do you think it looks a bit brown? (or worse still, a bit pink!?)

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p

Otherwise it seems quite good value for the mileage, any thoughts?

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Graham Waller
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It's described as Arena Red, same colour as my Boxster but it does look more "cherry-ish", a bit lighter than mine.

Looks OK to me, but I'm sure someone with more 944 expertise will be along soon

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Probably Garnet Red same as car here, viewtopic.php?f=35&t=8398&view=previous
Pretty sure Arena Red started on Boxster & 964.

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+1 for Garnet Red

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lindsayhbrown wrote:
+1 for Garnet Red

I agree now I've seen the name for it

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Defo Garnet Red. :wink:

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I've carefully compared it with my car, and it's definitely not Cobalt Blue, so the other guys might be right with Garnet red.

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Tri-Man wrote:
I've carefully compared it with my car, and it's definitely not Cobalt Blue, so the other guys might be right with Garnet red.

Got no dents or scratches either John so can't be Cobalt..... :mrgreen: Sorry!

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It's not Garnet red. The advert also says Arena.

When I bought my last new 944 in 89, I wanted Garnet red again like the one I had the year before. I had to take Baltic blue as they had stopped doing Garnet.

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In 88 I oredered Garnet Red, and the car arrived after about 6 weeks. While sitting in the showroom, a guy came in - saw it - and wanted to order the same. He was told the colour was no longer availabe from factory. The guy bought another colour 944 - had it stripped to chassis - and told them to repray it Garnet Red. It cost him 7 grand to do that.

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Id say garnet too looking at mine in the garage under the blanket :wink: http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g118/andytreweek/P1010001.jpg

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sstman wrote:
Id say garnet too looking at mine in the garage under the blanket :wink: http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g118/andytreweek/P1010001.jpg

I hate to be the one that points this out, but it looks from that picture like someone's stolen your blanket!

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