- Porsche Design’s luggage now comes in black with six customizable accent colors.
- Buyers can personalize handles, wheels, and a name tag in Porsche-inspired shades.
- The largest check-in size costs $1,925, with smaller configurations priced below that.
Have you ever wondered how to ensure that the poor people at the airport know you’re not like them? Of course not. That’s beneath you, but some people probably have wondered about it. In the past, maybe Porsche Design’s latest luggage set, priced at a cool $5,450, would’ve been enough. Trouble is, that set wasn’t customizable, so in some cases it blended in too much with the stuff you’d find at Walmart. Enter the new Roadster Aluminum Trolley in black with customization options!
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Previously, the set was only available in silver. Now, buyers can choose a simple classic black shade and then add customizable accessories. Those include bag tags, a leather handle, and Porsche Design wheels. Each is available in Black, Dark Blue, Silver, Grey, Carmine Red, and Cognac. There doesn’t appear to be a prohibition on mixing it up either, so one could put together a sort of harlequin luggage set should they be really devoted.
The suitcase itself is still the same Roadster Aluminum trolley Porsche introduced last year. The shell uses stamped aluminum panels mounted to a structural frame, with no visible rivets or chunky corner pieces. Porsche says the design was inspired by the aluminum roll hoop of the original 911 Targa, which is exactly the sort of sentence that makes perfect sense in a Porsche press release.
The brand also says the integrated TSA lock comes preset to “911,” because of course it does. Like a real Porsche, the Roadster Aluminum comes in multiple sizes. On BRIC’S website, the largest 30-inch check-in version is listed at $1,925, while the 26-inch model costs $1,820. The smaller carry-on-sized Roadster Aluminum starts at $1,595. Those figures are slightly lower than what it’ll cost to pick these up via Porsche’s online marketplace.
That said, we’re still talking about thousands of dollars for bags that, at their very best, keep your personal items as safe as almost every other type of luggage on earth. The only real difference here is that they do it while potentially signalling to other car enthusiasts that these bags are more customized than the car they drove to the airport. Hey, maybe next year, Porsche will remove the customizations and call it the Roadster Luggage RS while charging more for it.
