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[Wing Commander]

Yellow on a 911, maybe. On a Macan, I don't think so. On a Cayenne, Noooo!

No likey, Peteski?

[Macandriver]

Looks better on a Macan...

[Deleted User 1874]

No likey, Peteski?

Far too much sheet metal for a colour like that. Would be like driving around in a giant banana. I think the Cayenne looks better in dark, understated colours so you can't see the shape so well, a bit like fat people

[happy days]

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[Bigboyrolo]

Far too much sheet metal for a colour like that. Would be like driving around in a giant banana. I think the Cayenne looks better in dark, understated colours so you can't see the shape so well, a bit like fat people

[Col Lamb]

It was seeing many of these barges painted yellow in the seventies and eighties that killed the colour.
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[SAC1]

And if your up for the Turbo S Exclusive Series there's now carbon wheels for @ £16,000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RbJbh2 ... gest-vrecs

World première: Braided carbon wheels
Tuesday 22nd August 2017


Porsche 20-inch 911 Turbo Carbon Wheel for the 911 Turbo S Exclusive Series
Porsche has become the world’s first vehicle manufacturer to produce lightweight wheels with braided carbon fibre. They will be available as an option for the Porsche 911 Turbo S Exclusive Series.
Protected by a layer of clear lacquer that shows off the high-tech material’s characteristically black appearance, the innovative wheels are not only lighter than standard alloys – Porsche reports that a set of four weighs around 8.5 kilogrammes or 20 per cent less than standard alloy wheels – they are also 20 per cent stronger. With a reduced unsprung weight, the car’s tyres thus trail the surface of the road better and are perfectly optimised for absorbing longitudinal and lateral forces. Lower rotating masses mean more spontaneity both in acceleration and braking. The result is increased driving dynamics and driving pleasure.
Manufactured entirely from carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP), the wheel is essentially comprised of two components. The wheel centre is made from carbon-fibre fabric, its construction requiring the cutting and assembling over 200 individual components. The second component is the rim base, which is made from braided carbon fibre using what is, with a diameter of approximately nine metres, currently the world’s largest carbon fibre braiding machine.
The centre is then braided into the rim base, and the assembled wheel impregnated with resin and pre-hardened at high pressure and high temperatures. After this the finished wheel is cured at high temperatures followed by a long cooling process, and the central lock is then inserted into the finished wheel and the wheel protected with clear lacquer.
Porsche is the first automotive industry company anywhere in the world to use what it says is an “extremely complex technology.” The braiding technology offers key advantages over the more conventional method of manufacturing pre-impregnated carbon-fibre fabric: This production technique results in the carbon’s material structure being considerably denser and more compact, thereby increasing rigidity. A more efficient use of the material also produces less waste. The new carbon wheel is made from a total of 18 kilometres of carbon fibre as well as eight square metres of carbon-fibre fabric.
The new carbon wheels will be available as an option for the 911 Turbo S Exclusive Series from the beginning of 2018 in size 9 J x 20 for the front axle and 11.5 J x 20 for the rear.

[Deleted User 1874]

You have to hope Porsche have developed this carbon tech ^ for something useful, because I'm not seeing any real world benefits in this application and there are several other more practical ways of achieving a similar weight reduction.

[happy days]

A 20% reduction in unsprung weight isn't insignificant. Plus sometimes it has to be done just to prove that it can be?

[Dandock]

You have to hope Porsche have developed this carbon tech ^ for something useful, because I'm not seeing any real world benefits in this application and there are several other more practical ways of achieving a similar weight reduction.

With EVs being significantly heavier than traditional cars would these wheels not represent a huge benefit for the e-Mission et al, particularly if production methods could reduce the price.