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Beyer Subaru 03-08-2013 04:35 PM

These cars should have been available in yellow.

White is the most ticketed color in the US. It is also the most bought/sold color. - For all cars, trucks, etc..

86'd 03-08-2013 04:43 PM

As stated, keeping white clean is a myth perpetrated by the SWP lobby.

There's the aforementioned bird poop and road tar. SWP does hide it a bit more than say an alpine white or grand prix white, but all SWP does is turn more brown. :(

Black is a bit harder because of the swirls and how hard it is to keep a good shine.

Oh and white also hides hard water pretty well.

ST185RC 03-08-2013 04:47 PM

When light is reflected off the white surface you are seeing all the colours of the visible spectrum combined. Therefore, white is the absence of colour, yet contains all the colours we perceive. We can conclude that my car is rainbow coloured with unicorns farts coming out the exhaust.

Want.FR-S 03-08-2013 04:50 PM

Yellow and green are the two colors that are missing in this car, metallic or not.

JustStan 03-08-2013 04:54 PM

I agree that silver is the most forgiving color, but after 13 years with a silver car I need a change...so I'm switching to white.

Beyer Subaru 03-08-2013 04:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JustStan (Post 781174)
I agree that silver is the most forgiving color, but after 13 years with a silver car I need a change...so I'm switching to white.

Baby steps.

Laika 03-08-2013 05:03 PM

I don't think it's a question whether white is easy to keep clean or not. It's as difficult as any other color to keep clean. The thing with white is it tricks the eye when it's uniformly dirty (or even close to). You don't actually realize how gunked up a white car is till you clean even a small section.


My last car was black. Never again. NEVER. My other car is a bland bluish silver and I get lazy about washing it because I never notice a difference before and after.



Quote:

Originally Posted by b.e (Post 780947)
In the sun, the surface temperature of white cars is about 10-15 degrees lower than any other color. Black is hottest, 20 higher than white. This is in Utah, 4500 feet elevation (lots of UV in our sunlight). At lower elevations it isn't so extreme.


I've heard this a million and one times and always thought one thing. "What does it matter?" Aside from the door handle, you're not touching the paint nonetheless laying on it bareback. Isn't the interior color more relevant here? If so I'm glad my car has red stitching, black stitching would have made it 0.00000000000000000000000000000000001 degree hotter in there.

Dorb 03-08-2013 05:03 PM

I've been told whatever color it is, the more chrome it has the faster it will go....

HunterGreene 03-08-2013 05:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ST185RC (Post 781151)
When light is reflected off the white surface you are seeing all the colours of the visible spectrum combined. Therefore, white is the absence of colour, yet contains all the colours we perceive. We can conclude that my car is rainbow coloured with unicorns farts coming out the exhaust.

Half right. White just means that all the colors are being reflected, NOT an absence of color, as with black, where the light is largely being absorbed. Part of the reason that black cars are hotter in the sunlight.

Ganthrithor 03-08-2013 05:24 PM

My GTI is silverstone grey and doesn't look too bad after months of filthiness. My dad's black 135 looks filthy within ten minutes of being washed. Hope this helps.

DSOmegaX 03-08-2013 05:49 PM

Buying white, black, or silver means you're a lemming =P. j/k j/k but seriously theres a lot of these colors on the road. Might as well pick something to stand out amongst the crowd.

http://www.ppg.com/en/newsroom/news/...20121010A.aspx

dammitcubs 03-08-2013 06:18 PM

agreed...waiting for hot pink to come out. jk jk

FRSFirestorm 03-08-2013 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Eurasianman (Post 781091)
Also cop magnets in my book.

Who knows? :burnrubber:http://www.snopes.com/autos/law/redcars.asp

jimmillion 03-08-2013 06:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dorb (Post 781190)
I've been told whatever color it is, the more chrome it has the faster it will go....

stickers my friend, stickers.

each one equates to an increase of 5whp. :lol:


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