Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Though this is my all time favourite:

The bumper and wings would I think be fairly straightforward to do in white vinyl on my car in the style of that silver speedster. Is it visually arresting? Ish.

Just to cross the streams and infuriate the maximum number of people, this would be simple, visually arresting, and 100% wrong:

That red bumper one is a bit Inbetweeners.

I’d go with this sort of thing (side lettering, not body kit).

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^ but with "Dammit" instead of GT3 RS

And a Harris tweed roof.

Or go full Virgil Abloh and have it say "Porsche" and "H2" in obvious places, big old red zip ties everywhere and a deconstructed/reconstructed roof

Need any help with parts sending from the UK to germany?

A110, really great handling cars fond memories of the car being worth less than the original engine, especially the spainish built ones. But the bog standard renault 5 engine fitted but no where near as powerful.

How about a subtle tintin moon rocket pattern somewhere?

Are you sure you want it to stand out in such a way?

I dont know much about these matters but from a first glance i would think that ppl looking to upgrade their porsches are mostly those with the regular 911 or the S version. I would perhaps lean to think that those are in to the more modest looks? Those that want their car to stand out like a "super car" bought the turbo or others versions or perhaps a diffrent brand all together? and as such they allrdy have a car with an "upgraded" engine or system that your version may not have the same appeal to?

Personally i would love to own a classic looking porsche (not sure the 996 defines as a classic but you know what i mean, no silly stuff) with an upgraded engine that cant really be spotted from the outside. Well an emblem or such never hurts but if it got associated with a spoiler or poor looks just to stand out it would not lure me in.

Thats only me ofc and i dont really know the market at all.

This is purely so that the car is recognisable, whatever I do (if I do anything) would be on there for the time it's going to journalists, and maybe that years shows, then it'd come off. The yellow stripe/whatever would not be part of the offer, as it were.

Remove Porsche crests and fit H2 logo in an Ruf style?

i'd be tempted not to over-egg it and go for something a bit more subtle like on these GTIs

I doubt you'd see that across a field/make that out in a photograph of a car on a circuit.

Subtle, in this particular case, isn't what we're aiming for.

Yes ofc but isent that then How it will appear in the resulting media coverage? Not saying its not good just i would have Thought a more suttle approach May be more atteactive to The potential clients of which i know v little..

I would leave it as it is. As you say it looks purposeful. Surely the people interested in this H2 malarkey are going to want to see pictures of the engine. Hope the journalist/photographer can capture that. I think @badboybjorn said it best.

Potential clients:

1. Someone rebuilding a 996 anyway and decides to accept the incremental cost of our performance parts
   
2. Someone with a 996 that is 100k miles upwards and wants to perform a prophylactic rebuild and decides to add the performance parts
   
3. Rally/race and track day people that like the idea of GT3 power at half the cost, and a fraction of the cost to rebuild, who'd buy the 996 and send it to us for the engine upgrades
   
4. Someone who wants a GT3 but also wants to use it (which would put an increasingly large dent in it's value) so goes for our version instead
   

Do you have a company logo and/ or company colour yet?

Does it make some sense to have the two versions - one that looks stock and a bit of a sleeper and one that looks modded to fuck with a spoiler you could sleep on?

Well, there's the purple one with a GT3-RS spoiler, 19" wheels, carbon-ceramic brakes etc pictured up-thread which I would challenge most people to miss which is getting a 3.9 litre version of our engine, and there's mine which looks 100% stock, albeit lower over it's wheels than Porsche intended, with a 3.7 litre version of our engine.

What does your emblem look like?

I think i would just get some really blingy wheels on there maybe play with your emblem colors a bit.
Im also bit weak for red roof fabric (if the right red) on silver porsches, maybe show some brake calipers in the same color to get a theme going. Red kinda take more notice and would stand out a bit yet not always loud if done properly.

Other than that im out of ideas haha spoilers and the likes are not for me i guess.

I think big block colour changes stand out from a distance - How about vinyl wrapping the back half (either following the door line or a diagonal cut across the rear 30% of the doors) black then massive black logo on the doors?

Edit.
Just saw you don’t want subtle, so ignore me.

Once the marketing side of this is done I want the car to be as subtle as possible - ideally the only way I want people to know that it's something slightly out of the ordinary is that it's running at GT3 ride height and it's got yellow callipers with carbon-ceramic discs (visible through the wheels, if you know what you're looking at). And, of course, the noise it makes.

Why aren’t HGV’s more aerodynamic? I’ve often wondered why the cost/impact of pushing a frontal area the size and shape of a vertical snooker table isn’t mitigated.