What is Porsche "Carrara White" Carrara? Many Porsche color names are derived from stone

What does Carrara mean? ?? Where did it come from? ??

In the previous blog, it is a new color of the latest Porsche 911 (992)I wrote about Aventurine Green Metallic ColorThat reminded me.

A long time ago, at the time of a certain story flow, when I was talking about various things "I want to make a car, I want to do this", a Porsche salesman said "(in the content flow at that time) and now There is also a used car like this of Carrara White. "There was one 911 that was introduced.

I have a white car (GT3) now, but at that time I was not thinking about purchasing GT3 (white) even 0.01%, so I will consider purchasing a white Porsche I never thought about doing it. I wanted "only black Porsche".

At that time, when I saw that "Carrara White" was written in the color of the proposed car specs, I was curious about the name "Carrara" for the first time.

Certainly Porsche's white has a color called Carrara White. Carrara sounds pretty cute, but I have never heard of it in real life except for Porsche's color name.

Is the name Porsche Carrara White derived from the name of Carrara Marble? For real?

I was curious, so I looked up the meaning. Then.

Carrara is a city and comune in the Province of Massa and Carrara (Tuscany, Italy), notable for the white or blue-grey marble quarried there. It is on the Carrione River, some west-northwest of Florence.

This is the only Carrara that seems to be the case.

In other words, Italy seems to be the name of a city in Massa, Carrara, in the Tuscany region. In addition, it is said that the white and blue-gray marble production area called Carrara Bianco, which is famous in this region. Bianco means white, so Carrara Bianco = Carrara White.

 ↑ * Photo of Carrara marble. This photo is"Ishirabe-sama site"I borrowed more. There is also a detailed explanation of marble there, so please refer to it.

However! One mysterious thing here. Even if you look up the name of the marble, most of the information that comes out in Japanese is "Karara Marble". And even if you look up by place name, there are many such as "Carrara". Nowhere seems to read "Carrara" as "Carrara".

So why did only Porsche Japan come to call this "Carrara"? * The pronunciation is similar to "Karara" in English. Germans also pronounced "Karara".

This is a strange place, and I don't know the truth. Is it because the sound of "Carrera" is similar to that of "Carrera" and it becomes complicated? → Is it misleading that it is Carrera White? And because Carrara sounds better than Carrara and Carrara ...? However, the person who translated Carrara at Porsche Japan was "Ca", so I just translated it as "Kya" (laugh)? ??

And one more. It's easy to convince me that it's called Carrara White, which is named after Carrara Marble, but I'm not sure if that's really what Porsche decided on the color name.

The spelling is Carrara, which is the same as marble, but in Japanese there is a difference between "Carrara" and "Carrara", so I can confirm for myself whether it is okay to simply combine it with Carrara White = Carrara Marble. I couldn't. I have no choice but to confirm this!

That's why I confirmed it. Yes.

The origin of the name of Carrara White is ... Official answer from Porsche!

I was confirmed by the director of Porsche Classic in Germany.When we met at The Rally"I have something I want to know, so please tell me!", Drunk momentum (laughs)? So I heard it normally. When I met, I had this Carrara White problem in my head, so ^^

He is a very kind person and says, "Oh, I don't know! But I have a terrific friend who knows everything about Porsche! It may take some time, but I will definitely reply! "

So, "Yes! Thank you ^^", I was back at the dinner table of the rally, but only a few minutes later he came to me ... "Reply It may take some time to do this, but this time it will be very early! I've already answered ^^! " great!

The answer you are interested in is ...

The official answer from the authentic German Porsche Classic is ...

"Carrara White Carrara is named after Carrara Marble."

It was that. Oh oh. Great answer! !! !! I enjoyed it with him, the director, saying, "I had never thought about the origin of the color name, so it was fun!" He was really kind. Nice. I want to see you again ~.

Many Porsche color names are derived from stone

Well, the other thing I taught together was, "My Dr. Porsche says that many Porsche color names are taken from the name" Stone ". It was that. " indeed.

Even if you just think of it

surely! It's like that.

By the way, "Aventurine" of "Aventurine Green Metallic" that appeared again in the 8th generation 992 type of Porsche 911 is said to be an ore called aventurine.Click here for Wikipedia.. Photos tooThis siteI borrow more ↓.

Even if one name of Porsche color is taken, it is interesting because it has various origins and is considered. I became interested in various things of Porsche, and by doing so, I also gained knowledge about Carrara marble and aventurine, and I think that Porsche really enriched my life.

Thanks to Porsche! And I am also very grateful to the Porsche Classic who enjoyed working together at this time and investigated the origin of the name of Carrara White. Thank you ^^

The Porsche people were really nice not only from Japan but also from overseas. Already, Porsche, everyone loves cars and people!

Rika (911supercars.com)

I'm Rika, the author of this article. Ever since Porsche 911 became my favorite car, I've become totally addicted to Porsche, and I can't stop loving Porsche, so I started this blog. My favorite cars are 911 Carrera (991.2), 911 Carrera Cabriolet (992.1), and 911 Carrera T (992.1).