It's more like people under 30 are nostalgic for an era they never experienced, mostly never even actually existed, and that they can only experience through mindless consumption of plastic gadgets and retro inspired pop culture.
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.
FWIW I agree with you, this title made it sound like Porsche was going to file a lawsuit against Apple. Maybe it's a cultural thing but I've never heard "contest" being used this way in American English, at the very least.
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.
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.
Oh that's why the "Hoonipig" had that livery. I must admit I didn't think much about it's origins, but it was one of my favourite cars to come out of the Hoonigan/Ken Block machine.
edit: on second look, it doesn't seem like the same pink but it is a similar aesthetic. Surely a homage but maybe not as direct as I thought.
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.
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):
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 46.1 ms ] threadminimalism 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)
It's more like people under 30 are nostalgic for an era they never experienced, mostly never even actually existed, and that they can only experience through mindless consumption of plastic gadgets and retro inspired pop culture.
I would bet there's so much pent up demand for properly colored macbooks. What's the argument against it – SKU explosion?
edit: on second look, it doesn't seem like the same pink but it is a similar aesthetic. Surely a homage but maybe not as direct as I thought.
For example, here's what's left of the martini racing collection: https://shop.porsche.com/us/en-US/c/collections?hierarchical...
https://youtu.be/PQmSUHhP3ug
Any car lover who doesn't know that vid can safely watch it.
Worth a visit, in my opinion. ;-)
i was actually at laguna for this: https://sportscardigest.com/le-mans-winning-porsche-935-k3-s...