color truths and half truths
 

Hi all,
Just wanted to collect some information on people's experiences with the different colors.
For example, pretty much everyone agrees that black is the hardest color to keep clean, while White is easiest to keep clean. And I just read on a post that red fades the fastest.

What are some more generally true experiences about other colors?

White cars look fresh to death.

Truth.

Black cars suck

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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.

the "truth" is that color preference is subjective and all colors can look amazing if you maintain it properly. a different color does not make it easier to keep clean, it just makes it easier to mask the dirtiness.

well, yes thanks for the clarification. that is what i was getting at. white masks dirt easier while black (or other dark colors) can tend to highlight every imperfection. Was particularly trying to avoid subjectivity in this thread.

And regardless of how dirty your car is, if it's DGM, it looks clean from a distance :lol:

Well, at least to me, it does.

<<< Red is Fastest :)

Yup. At one time I had a 8 year old silver car and 8 month old black car. The black I had just washed 24 hours prior, the silver hadn't seen soap in over a month. Silver loaked great, black, not so much.

Rock chips on WRB will make you cry. Nearly all the WRB I've seen (including mine) are super orange peeled.

Haha
:clap:

Its true.. black cars look clean and relatively good at a distance.

Until you start getting closer. :P

Also cop magnets in my book.

Truth! My wife use to have a Toyota Yaris S Sedan that was silver. Hadn't washed it in months. Finally decided to wash it, even though it didn't look that dirty. I kid you not, when we started soaking the car, the water running off of it was brownish :lol:

White is not easy to keep clean, i would say silver would be less trouble to keep looking good.

Whit is a magnet for bird poop. :(

Silver is the easiest car to maintain. No joke.
I will never own another black car again. After a few years if it is not waxed it looks like ass with all the swirls.

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..

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.

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.

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

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.

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.




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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

stickers my friend, stickers.

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

Same here, but good thing about silver is it looks clean when dirty and immaculate when washed..

SWP has s bunch of pearl in it that's a PITA to paint match and even from the factory you can see a pretty distinct difference in the color of the rear bumper to the rest of the car.

I'm sorry for you Toyota guys, you see us Subaru people are very familiar with Subaru's crap paint. I'm guessing You guys not so much so let me bring you up to speed. Subaru paint sucks, a lot. Always has.

You don't own a black car, it owns YOU.

I'd buy it if it was Yashio Factory Pink. :)


Also.. people don't seem to notice ORANGE cars. Been rear ended twice and almost hit on the 22East from some dumbass kid who changed 3 lanes over. Actually I think that was his negligence. lol

Sterling silver metallic is the speed of light.

silver is easiest to keep clean

I got a WRB because that's just how everything shook out, but GBS is still my favorite color. I will say, red and white both looked way better in person than I expected. Also, when it's dusk out, WRB is pure sex. Just downright gorgeous.

I like the metallic in DGM :)

SSM doesnt show scratches & ages well. No need to wash ever.

DGM looks like a dirty black car after 10yrs under the sun.

SWP is really beige.

Black is not a color, it's a hobby.

I was just reading today a long-term test update on a Premium WRB - their first complaint was the paint was so bad the car could not even be delivered to them until they had it "corrected".

It only looks beige to you because you live in NYC; that charming brown smog-generated glow that passes for sunlight there is playing tricks on you. :D