Silver Ignition vs. Argento
 

Could we see some pics of these two colors together?

I'll bump this up as I'm also curious to see the two side by side.

This isn't argento, but I took a picture next to a white BRZ and a generic silver colored car just to show some contrast.


http://i.imgur.com/hVZ3ZUa.jpg

Bump!

Not the best pic but you can see the Argento in the back.
http://i333.photobucket.com/albums/m...21/image-1.jpg

I got one pics, hope it's help. Silver Ignition in back.
[IMG]http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...7/IMG_2387.jpg[/IMG]

Great! Looks darker with that lighting.

Found a silver BRZ so I pulled up next to it and snapped a few pictures. I'd have gotten closer but I didn't want an angry owner coming out of a store waving his/her arms and yelling at me or something. :P This doesn't catch it well enough, I should have flipped my phone camera to daylight maybe. But you can see a more blue tinge to the Silver Ignition. This is bright Arizona sun, I think the color differentiates more as it gets darker. It moves closer to a concrete/grey color then. Funny story, I had a white FR-S lease prior to the 10 series and two of my friends didn't even notice I'd changed cars as they walked by it in full daylight. I pointed it out to them and they were surprised, it does get really light colored in the full sun.

http://i.imgur.com/1dzIDpA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/qPsFYTQ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/GWygDJo.jpg

I'm contemplating on getting a 10 Series over a regular FR-S because of all the goodies... BUT that color. Every pic I see, it reminds me of baby blue :mad0259:.

I really need to find one in person.

I wouldn't call it baby blue at all, it's only seen that way when next to silver. Yeah it's hard to describe.

WTF is wrong with baby blue??? Baby blue is best color :mad0260:

Not Argento... but Toyota silver...


http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ps60144446.jpg


http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ps44c51aab.jpg


Baby blue!!

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b29/Luis_GT/020.jpg

So it IS baby blue then?!
Seriously though, baby blue looks alright when stock to me. But cosmetic mods on it look weird to me. I'm one for the clean and aggressive look and it just wouldn't look right on baby blue. I don't think I've ever seen it done.

I'll still probably end up with a 10 Series anyway though, assuming they're still around.

Mine is... most of the time... :wub:

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ps5f8e0ffd.jpg


Other times it does look silver...

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b2...1.jpg~original

It's more of a metal color than a soft color like blue. Cue the Blue Steel jokes from Zoolander. :D I like it best at lower light when it takes on more of a concrete/grey look. It's pretty close to this:

http://i.imgur.com/NOrZTxf.jpg

I will say that the color is closer to Silver than Blue. Steel is an accurate descriptor (light steel blue, #B0C4DE). It's like a cyan or azure (baby blue is a tint of azure, so you guys may be close with this) mixed with silver.

Seriously though. If the FRS/BRZ came in a Baby Blue color (#89CFF0), that would have been the one for me. That, or School Bus yellow (#FFD800).

FUCK YES!

I test drove a manual 10 Series today. I kinda like all the extra stuff, aside from the neon badge part. The one at my dealer had a standard shift knob in it.

All manuals came with the standard shift knob...

No dude. The 10 series was pictured with that Neon accented glow shift knob. I said Standard shift knob as in reference to the normal FR-S. Not the word standard as in manual transmissions.

And dude he is right the neon crap neon is for a/t only

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8E_h7R1SQZ...ps8f0f914f.jpg

All manuals came with the standard shift knob...

Or, all manuals came with the OEM shift knob

or, all manuals came without the glow shift knob

By way of explanation the solar knob doesn't have a shift pattern on top, there's probably some legal reason they couldn't include it. Honestly it ain't much to look at anyway.

Ok, thought the MT had that shitty glow knob on it. Seeing as how I don't like that, 10 series is not to bad then. Dig the color in person.

the silver ignition color resembles the Lexus Paint: Bamboo Pearl it has a slight brown tint in the silver in some angles, and slight blueish hue in others.. there were two versions of this paintjob, majorly on Lexus Rx330-rx350 like 2003-2008 where somehwere mid-break the paint changed.

I'll snap a pic at work of a series 10 with my argento.

Silver Ignition is really very neutral, and slightly smaller metallic flakes than the Argento. Almost like a pearl silver color.

Because there is so little color in it, and because it's darker, but still reflective, Silver Ignition picks up color from the environment.

On nice sunny days, you're going to get some blue overtones from the sky.
On rainy days, it will appear very flat grey, like the sky over head.
Drive through a forest, and you'll likely get some green hues.
Around sunset, you'll see warm reds, bronzes, golds, and such.

Fantastic color.

BTW, don't always believe what you see on your computer monitor. First, the color will be altered by the color WHITE BALANCE on the camera capturing the photo, unless the white balance was correctly set. Next, your monitor itself is likely not color corrected.

Most monitors can only display a maximum of around 16 million colors (If your graphics card allows it also) but people can see even more colors than that. I believe Silver Ignition falls into the color range that monitors can display, if they are properly calibrated.

I work professionally with color as a photographer, and multimedia specialist, so I know a thing or two about color correction, but there's plenty for me to learn. If anyone else has an opinion on this please chime in.

If you guys really want to see the color, go see the car. Go see it in person. Go see it at different times of the day, and if possible in different kinds of light (sunlight of course, showroom lights, tungsten hued lights in the parking lots, etc).

None of the other FRS colors capture the light so uniquely and subtly. (But the other colors have their own unique personas that are really nice too!)

Good post. I've been tempted to actually do a video walking around it at different times of day, then splice it all together. If someone wants to beat me to it, have at it. :)

I was set on argento at first.. but when I went to my dealership the argento and 10 series were parked side by side. Where I'm at, I mostly get the blue tint to the paint. It's not for everyone but you need to see it in person to get the full effect. I'd love to have this car in the rebel blue volvo paint :)

Reminds me of the Honda Prelude crystal blue metallic.

That color was really awesome.

But this silver ignition should've been a shade or two darker like the honda prelude.

Here's some pics in a semi cloudy day.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7209/...e59d3c4c_k.jpg
https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2863/...2dcfc094_k.jpg
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3724/...45eb4d46_k.jpg
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3728/...6ceedc5b_k.jpg
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7384/...06a55a48_k.jpg

Looks great RayTrix! I love the color on those cloudy days - almost like a cement grey.

What color are those RPF1s? Is that the gunmetal color?

Guys can anyone please help me out where to buy this rear spoiler? ebay link amazon etc.
thanks

Dealership. I believe that's the spoiler on the '14's.

That's the scion OEM spoiler. Some 10 series came with it.