Caramel

A warm, medium solid brown in the caramel register — the color of soft caramelized sugar, with enough warmth and amber character to distinguish it clearly from darker chocolates and cooler taupes — Caramel (Burnusbraun, code 524 / L524) was offered on the 911 SC and 928 in 1981 and 1982, confirmed by PaintRef under code L524 with the German name Burnusbraun. The hex #8B5A2B places it in a warm, mid-range brown with good caramel warmth. The Burnusbraun German name references a burnous — the traditional North African robe worn in the Sahara — evoking the warm, sun-baked earth tones of desert landscapes. For buyers of the period who wanted an earthy, warm brown alternative to the era's dominant silvers and whites, Caramel offered a genuinely unusual and characterful specification. The 1981–82 window on the 911 SC and 928 places it in a brief sweet spot at the end of the original brown era before this family of colors largely disappeared from Porsche's catalogue through the mid-1980s.