SDW2001 - If you thought your black car was the WORST to keep clean, then think about what you are going through on a car that's white. I don't think there's any comparison.
my wife just found me a blue/purple one low milage, i'm going to look at tomorrow it's not from a dealer but it's still under warrenty and sounds lke it's been well taken care of. so if it looks good i'm going to get the blue/purple. i just discovered they call it French Blue
well i'm buying the French Blue one i gave them a deposit. picking it up early next week once finaces are settled
SDW2001 - If you thought your black car was the WORST to keep clean, then think about what you are going through on a car that's white. I don't think there's any comparison.
Silver is great though
White is nowhere near as bad as black. Not even close. It gets dirty, fine. But it doesn't show the marks and scratches black does.
funny, when my wife and i last rented a car, we pulled in a friend's driveway and she said "you rented a white car again?" we hadn't really thought about it until then, but they do all seem to be white for some reason. maybe, as sdw alluded to, they show scratches the least.
we just bought a 2003 toyota matrix in a light metallic "cosmic" blue. not bad. i'm not crazy about it, personality-wise, but it does a really good job of not showing the dirt.
don't buy the "pearlescent" colors that are going around these days (toyota has several of these). color looks gorgeous when the car is CLEAN and DRY. get it wet and/or dirty, and it just deadens to a toally flat color. i assume that whatever material they grind up and put into the finish coating to give it that "sparkle" must not be able to reflect and refract the sunlight as easily if there's anything on it. the toyota pearlescent indigo matrix looked sweet, until we saw one on the street after it rained. then it just looked blue. not even a bright blue, either.
there are a few gun metal variants i like (i especially like the gun metal gray vw beetle).
i like yellow, and i wouldn't worry about extra tickets because i a.) don't exceed the speed limit and b.) always use my blinkers, two things NO ONE in my area seems to adhere to.
our first car was red. it was okay.
i still have a fondness for greens, too.
i have to agree that i don't like gold cars at all. i especially hate gold accents (instead of chrome/silver). ugh. and i really don't like metallic orange/copper.
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Silver is great though
Originally posted by burningwheel
my wife just found me a blue/purple one low milage, i'm going to look at tomorrow
well i'm buying the French Blue one
Originally posted by Wayne Lau
SDW2001 - If you thought your black car was the WORST to keep clean, then think about what you are going through on a car that's white. I don't think there's any comparison.
Silver is great though
White is nowhere near as bad as black. Not even close. It gets dirty, fine. But it doesn't show the marks and scratches black does.
we just bought a 2003 toyota matrix in a light metallic "cosmic" blue. not bad. i'm not crazy about it, personality-wise, but it does a really good job of not showing the dirt.
don't buy the "pearlescent" colors that are going around these days (toyota has several of these). color looks gorgeous when the car is CLEAN and DRY. get it wet and/or dirty, and it just deadens to a toally flat color. i assume that whatever material they grind up and put into the finish coating to give it that "sparkle" must not be able to reflect and refract the sunlight as easily if there's anything on it. the toyota pearlescent indigo matrix looked sweet, until we saw one on the street after it rained. then it just looked blue. not even a bright blue, either.
there are a few gun metal variants i like (i especially like the gun metal gray vw beetle).
i like yellow, and i wouldn't worry about extra tickets because i a.) don't exceed the speed limit and b.) always use my blinkers, two things NO ONE in my area seems to adhere to.
our first car was red. it was okay.
i still have a fondness for greens, too.
i have to agree that i don't like gold cars at all. i especially hate gold accents (instead of chrome/silver). ugh. and i really don't like metallic orange/copper.