I am currently waiting on an allocation to place my order for an HTC. I am sold on the Roswell Green and have been leaning towards a jet black with Santorini Blue stitching and Santorini seat belts. I have lately been intrigued with the full Santorini Blue interior, but I'm concerned its too much. Has anyone ordered RG with Santorini interior? Thoughts? I will eventually order it the way I want it but I appreciate the input.

 

Is there a factory override color surcharge for Roswell Green over a Santorini Blue interior?

 

it doesn't show one on the build & buy, but Santorini seems to require a 3LT.

 

Override or not, ability to or not, RG over SB is not something you order if you are ever concerned with resale value.

 

Agreed. Although resale isn't my top concern, it will be a factor.

 

I think it'll look pretty cool. It gets old seeing the same combos over and over. People talk about resale, but go look at the used C8 market right now. It's flooded with C8s that are in "desirable" resale combinations. Even new dealer inventory is swamped with the same, tired color combos.

I think Roswell over Habanero would look awesome as well.

Ultimately, get what you want! If you're worring about the next guy, you're starting off on the wrong foot.

 

 

I can only speak from my personal experience, but I'm a blue corvette guy. When I got my 2002 Z06, i settled for the plain black interior instead of the mod red. Ever since then I've wanted blue with a red interior. That's what my E-Ray will have.

So what I'm saying is, do what brings you joy. It's a depreciating asset, so you better love it and drive it. Don't settle for less.

 

Habanero would work better, imho. My rule of thumb is picking things on opposite sides of the color wheel. Blue and Green are adjacent. Green and red are opposites, but that's always going to look christmas-y. So Green/Orange would work better. Blue/Orange also works great (eg. Gulf livery).

 

You are not wrong

 

Really though order what you want! How else do we all end up with 1:1 if we all just doing standard specs.

 

I have seen White with the Santorini Blue and Black with the Santorini Blue and both looked great. I think when it comes to supercars and exotics or whatever you want to call them, bold and unusual color combinations seem to be the way to go....I think it would look cool, especially if you trimmed the outside with blue matching calipers and stripes...

 

Here's a Lamborghini Muira that will be at Mecum Kissimmee in January in green with blue interior. Of course there were a lot of wild colour combos in the 70's.

 

My wife's S5 Cabriolet is Blue with red interior and its great. Pretty rare combo.

 

Well I went to Florida State so Orange and Green or Blue and Orange are not in consideration to say the least.

 

Sounds like you should look for RMM over Natural...ideally with the tech bronze package.

 

Full Santorini I wouldn't do. Nothing wrong with stitching though. I think yellow stitching would work best with Roswell compared to santorini but stitching colour is so miniscule it won't be noticable.

 

I am all for one less black interior car being in the world. Do what makes you happy. While I have not had a color scheme quite this exuberant, I have ordered a number of "out there" cars in the eyes of other. My current Cayman GTS 4.0 is Gentian blue with a full red interior and I adore it. There is some interesting data in Porsche world around color schemes and resale value. Within reason, "colorful" cars, I.e. not black/white/silver/grey with a non black interior command either more money or have a higher velocity of sale. A look at Bat, Pcarlist, public auctions etc will generally corroborate this to an extent. I think the general idea is that if you're selling a white/black 911 turbo there are dozens of identical ones to choose from. But if you have a, say, purple on tan, while a high percentage of people will be polarized or offput, those who like it have no other option than your car. Or at least this is what I tell myself.

I specced my Z06/Z07 3LZ in Torch red on Natural Dipped with suede (silver wheels, red calipers, no stripes or graphics) and I'm honestly a little disappointed in myself for not doing something crazier, this is just genuinely what looked best to my eyes.

Look forward to photos of the build!

 

My concern is the full Santorini would be too much. I am not a fan of the yellow stitching and/or belts.

 

I don't think it would be too much. The renderings make it took super bright and shinny but in person I found it to be not as bright and flatter in sheen...it looks nice and not overwhelming..IMO. But then again I did Sebring Orange and Habanero and I don't think it is too much orange..