Was at the NYAS yesterday, and although there are the as-always issues with the lighting (super-bright, but almost eerie in color spectrum,) Lava Orange is a very impressive color (at least in that environment) that's hard to define in words: it's not simply a very orange orange, but has some... burned peach or somesuch to it, along with a touch of pink, which gives it a subtle fluorescence. The following link is to an image at Niello Porsche's site and it comes close to properly rendering the hue, but what others see will depend in part on their displays:
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(Doesn't end in "jpg" and I didn't want to take a copyright liberty by putting it on tinypic.)
Also, while pretty much remaining open-minded about the 718's styling, I did find the logo-on-black tail panel too blatant and distracting. It makes it seems like the spoiler is not quite up or down: a lack of surface resolution and implied functionality. Also the lights toward the bottom of the rear apron are, well, Japanese-ish. Yeah, they'd be ok on a Japanese car, but seem out of place on a Porsche. Also, I don't understand the functionality of such low-placed lights (reflectors?) A possible positive aesthetic quality is that they break up the somewhat bulbous quality the rear panel shapes and proportions take on from certain viewpoints. (This goes back to the 986, but there ought to be a better solution for what's not really much of a "problem." )