Paint to Sample Plusで誰かが作ったボディカラーがPTSカラーとして登録されるって

The body color someone made with Paint to Sample Plus is registered as a PTS color

Posted: Posted:February 16, 2023

It is possible to create a Porsche body color with your name

Haha, this is what Porsche CEO Oliver Blume said a while ago, ``In a little while, you will be able to create your own body color with your name on it.''

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As for the contents of this announcement, in the future, a bright green color created by Michael Essmann will be added as one of the colors of Paint to Sample.

It seems that this new green color was originally created by Mr. Essmann as a Paint to Sample Plus, and from March 2023, it will be 911, 718 as a Paint to Sample, and a color (color code) called "Essmanngreen" for the Taycan model. : 24C).

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In 1992, Mr. Essmann painted a Porsche 911 Carrera RS3.6 (type 964) in green, the corporate color of the company he runs, which was his first "Essmanngreen."

After that, the Porsches he owns, the Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 (997 type) and the Porsche 911 GT3 Touring Package (992 type), are also in the same green.

The reason why the 964 type 911 was first able to be green was due to the process called "after-sales painting" that existed at that time about 30 years ago (the 997 type is unknown because there is no description) but probably the same process).

And about the latest Porsche (992 type) that he owns, Porsche, which started to focus on body color from 2021, created a new Paint to Sample Plus, although it is the same color.

A new color-mixing machine is now in operation at the Zuffenhausen factory, where paint specialists blend dozens of milligrams of ingredients to create the desired shade.

Even with the color Essmanngreen this time, the color recipe contains more than 100 ingredients including binders and additives. so much!

By the way, the color is said to be divided into the following two paint pots.

for bodywork
for add-on parts

When you paint a car, most of the parts you paint are made up of aluminum, plastic, and carbon fiber composites. ) to be the same.

For each material, we adjust the painting method, drying method, and component adjustment of the paint material in the first place, and before the actual painting, of course, tests (paint on plates called batch comparison plates and compare) are repeated. It is said that the color will be created.

Colors offered as Paint to Samples must go through all this preparation, testing, approval, etc.

Difference between Custom Color and Paint To Sample

The difference between the non-standard colors that used to be the above-mentioned after-sale painting or custom colors and the colors of the Paint to Sample (PTS) currently issued by Porsche are as above. Through the process of creating a color, the final result is 'whether it is a well-defined color that is technically approved by Porsche's paint specialists'.

Therefore, Mr. Essmann's green this time was actually Essmanngreen that had already been used for a long time, but when painting the latest 992 type Porsche 911 this time, through the process of Paint to Sample Plus (PTS Plus) , It was necessary to make it a properly approved color.

After all, the answer to the question I was most wondering, "What is the new body color with a person's name?" It may be added to the PTS so that it can be provided, and at that time you can name the color whatever you like."

I did.

… Ah, the voice of my heart ^^

If only I could imagine that many rich people in the world could make their favorite colors! I thought that this PTS Plus was requested quite a lot, but is it actually because it takes time to approve the color? It seems that there were few people who were doing this Plus service, and it seems that this color made by Mr. Essmann is the first color made with PTS Plus.

Haha, that's why adding the colors created with PTS Plus to PTS was announced as a new event. because it's the first~~I did.~~So that's it.

But if you add your own name to the colors you create with PTS Plus, and if it becomes a color that other people can choose as PTS, then more people might want to make it! I can't.

Because my name etc. will remain in history as Porsche's official body color name.

In fact, Mr. Essmann is also very happy that his name is attached to the green color he made and that he himself is the person who made that color. That's right~^^

If I make "Rika Green" like this person and get approved, maybe after that I will stay at the Porsche Center all the time and ask people who come and come "If you buy Porsche, why don't you try Rika Green?" I'm so happy that I'm going to recommend it (big trouble).

Current PTS colors total 170 colors

Current PTS colors are:

Porsche 911 and 718 series 115 colors
Taycan 108 colors
Panamera and Macan 59 colors
Cayenne 52 colors

It seems that 170 PTS colors are provided in total (excluding duplicates for each model).

10 more colors than before. It seems that it will increase little by little in the future.

However, even if I want to do PTS, it seems that there are many situations where I can't do it now, so I hope that various situations will improve so that I can receive orders for PTS colors. I will ^ ^

Source:(Official) Long-standing Porsche lover has a color named after him

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).

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