PORSCHE 911 S/TWHEN A DREAM COLOR FINALLY BECOMES A REALITY

Porsche enthusiast and horse breeder Jorge Carnicero will soon have a new unique specimen in his stable. As part of the Porsche Sonderwunsch programme, a comprehensively customised 911 S/T in Dani Blue has been created.

The sports car collector from the US state of Kentucky named the colour exclusively developed for him after Colour & Trim designer Daniela Milošević. One striking feature of the interior is the tricoloured pepita pattern on the seat centres. Like the extensive leather upholstery in Graphite Blue, the pattern runs with the blue colour of the exterior paintwork. The 911 S/T in Dani Blue will be one of the highlights of the Monterey Car Week (15 to 17 August 2024) before Porsche hands the car over to its long-standing customer.

“Blue has always been my colour. I was never a fan of green,” Jorge Carnicero already revealed during one of his previous projects with Porsche. That highly individual 911 GT3 Touring was based on the millionth 911, which had rolled off the line in Irish Green in 2017. Despite Carnicero’s preference, this model from four years ago ended up green after all – British Racing Green.

But now it was time for a Porsche in his favourite colour. During the configuration of a 911 S/T, the sports car collector asked the colour experts at Porsche to create a special blue that would suit the sporty, puristic character of the limited anniversary model. With its ‘Paint to Sample Plus’ programme, the sports car manufacturer gives its customers the option to develop colours based entirely on their own ideas.

“Before getting started, we had four paint frogs painted in iconic blue colours,” Colour & Trim designer Daniela Milošević recalls the beginnings of the Sonderwunsch project. Paint frogs are miniature cars in the form of a current 911 that enable the effect of colours on a larger 3D body to be better assessed. Enamel Blue soon emerged as the general favourite. This was the colour of the Porsche 901 sports coupé from 1964.

Milošević and her colleagues further developed Enamel Blue, adapting it to the current era. During this process, the tone became “a little more colourful, more intense and darker, but not too loud”, the designer recalls. She clearly reflected Carnicero’s taste perfectly, whereupon he spontaneously named the colour after her – ‘Dani Blue’ was born.