I have wondered about this question for ages.
Let me tell you my personal opinion.
The Smoked- It's way too dark. It makes your car have literally no contrast at all. Smoked lenses are for light colored cars and not a dark one.
Clear red- I agree with you 100%. The white light tube looks really off.
Half red chrome- Stay away from this too. The red looks good but the chrome and clear parts of the valentis looks sooooo terrible.
I went with the Valenti STYLE Taillights. It has the sequential turn signal too.
http://www.ft86speedfactory.com/vale...l#.V12zWuYrKRs
These are the ones I bought, along with the GCS smoked Reverse lights. I woulda went with Red-Red reverse lights but they are apparently on national back order and I don't want to wait.
The valentis I linked are personally the best looking ones by-far on the DGM. The white tube isn't as noticeable because the casing is so red.
I think you would agree since it seems like you think the same way I did.