Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery

recursivedoubts

apple should go back to their classic logo minimalism and thinness-for-thinnness-sake has been played out: everything looks the same and is devoid of personality. People want personality back: https://x.com/HeyZaraKhan/status/2050166377269620920 Related, MB bringing back physical buttons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997418 Physical media is making a comeback too (including books)

chaostheory

This is a strange sounding title. It sounds like Porsche was fighting against Apple’s colors in Laguna Seca, when instead they’ll be used on Porsche cars.

postalcoder

The colors look beautiful on the car. Hopefully a Ternus-lead Apple will find the courage to adorn the Macbook Pro line with six colors. I would bet there's so much pent up demand for properly colored macbooks. What's the argument against it – SKU explosion?

buserror

Damn, just when we of the emulator and vintage stuff scene thought we were safe using the old colors as they hadn't any relevance anymore, booom, it suddenly becomes trendy again.

mrcwinn

Only HN could find something negative to say about a wrap on a car. The internet is a remarkable place.

1attice

It's not a 'greige' (grey-beige) paint job tho so it doesn't look very good. The rainbow apple logo needs the greige to foreground its vibrancy. White is too loud, and drowns out the pop.

brcmthrowaway

Was this sanctioned by Apple??

redfloatplane

Ah, they just today did Formula E in a Pink Pig livery ( https://www.fiaformulae.com/en/news/1062899 ) but I think the Apple livery might have been more apt.

ardit33

Whoever designed the modern version of it, did an awesome job. Modern porsches (past 2000) have gotten a bit too boring, and it needs to be bring some more color in their line up.

Simon_O_Rourke

This is a nothing burger of a story.

dfxm12

Neat. Porsche releases different gear from time to time based on classic liveries. An espresso cup wearing this livery would be nice. For example, here's what's left of the martini racing collection: https://shop.porsche.com/us/en-US/c/collections?hierarchical...

TacticalCoder

Here's Porsche really at its best, on the Nurburgring's Nordschleiffe in 2018, which is arguably the most complicated and diverse track on the planet doing a cool 5m19s (in 2024 a Mercedes AMG GT One was a full 1min10s slower, for example): https://youtu.be/PQmSUHhP3ug Any car lover who doesn't know that vid can safely watch it.

musicale

Apple itself sells some classic logo merch at the Apple Park Visitor Center Apple Store in Cupertino. Worth a visit, in my opinion. ;-)

joshu

iirc the apple color porshes were kremer k935s? i was actually at laguna for this: https://sportscardigest.com/le-mans-winning-porsche-935-k3-s...