Dragonfly Turquoise Met.

A vivid, jewel-toned metallic that sits at the precise intersection of turquoise and aquamarine — strongly blue-green, bright and saturated, more assertive than the pale Coppa Florio and more chromatic than Ocean Jade Metallic — Dragonfly Turquoise Metallic (Libelltürkis Metallic, codes 25K/25H/J3) is one of the most celebrated and visually extraordinary PTS colors in Porsche's modern catalogue. The Elferspot listing of a 1996 993 Carrera 4S press car documents it as a PTS special color that was also applied to the prototype 996 armored 911 built for Porsche in 1997, a vehicle now occasionally displayed at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. German Cars for Sale Blog documented a 2001 996 Turbo also finished in Libelltürkis Metallic with Turbo Twist wheels painted in the same color. The name references the dragonfly, whose iridescent wing membranes shift between blues, greens, and teals in exactly the way this color does on different body panels at different angles — an apt scientific and poetic choice for one of Porsche's most chromatically distinctive PTS offerings.