Ford will stop selling cars by 2022...

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

The guy/gal who invents a car coating whose color can be changed electrically via remote key fob or dash control is going to become very very rich... or very hated by new car dealers since your wife is hardly alone in her purchasing reasoning in this world.

This technology HAS to exist... right?

[MuseChaser]

lol.. CLOSE! Now, if we could only get it work when it WASN'T raining.. Of course, I live in Syracuse.. it always rains here.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

This technology HAS to exist... right?

It would be expensive as hell right now but technically you could do this by wrapping the car in something like OLED which is thin enough for some shapes.

There is also paint that changes color when you run an electrical current through it (I think the process is called chromism) searching....

Yep, here's an example using an 86!

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuTjAxX9MSU"]Amazing Colour Changing Car | Must Watch | HMTV - YouTube[/ame]

(OK, so this may or may not be fake, still it demonstrates what you are looking for....)

[Ultramaroon]

Fake news

[chaoskaze]

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo

That's not because the Camry is a good car. It's because, generally, people who buy Camrys don't know any better because they've never had anything else. It's a car for people who want an appliance. just like my clothesdryer is an appliance to me. It does the job, but I don't care beyond that. They don't care. They just want a car. It's much easier to go to the Toyota dealer you've always gone to and trade it in for the same drink of beige than it is to go cross shopping. That takes effort.

It's more then that, camry and most of the toyota line up is no longer the same as 2 years ago with the way they update the model to de-appliance their car lineup & people who buys this segment knows, camry wasn't the best selling toyota for a good time already till they updated the model last winter. There is a reason that it went back up there instead of a toyota suv.

[chaoskaze]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Shit I feel like 10 years old again....... Omg I miss this

[bcj]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMxRQAOApkg"]Warm weather means its mustang season - YouTube[/ame]

[Racecomp Engineering]

"We're just following what the market wants" says industry that spends billions of advertising dollars telling the market what it wants.



- Andrew

[Spuds]

https://www.ford.com/suvs-crossovers...181021030111:s

[86MLR]

Here in AU both Ford and GM plants have closed, they built lots of big 4 door cars that had rubbish build quality, reliability, after sales and resale.

The government kept throwing money at them because of the employment of local workers.

They were told to pick up their game and fix all of the issues they were having, they asked for more money, government gave them more.

Nothing changed, the government got stuck into them again, they asked again for more money, the government said yes but you need to fix the issues.

Once they had the money, both Ford and GM Australia sent the money to the parent companies in the US and closed the plants.

You can still buy Ford and GM products here, but most are made in Asia, they are still poor quality and generally unreliable, resale and aftersales service is still woefull.

I don't know how much money, your tax money, the government gives that goes into bailing out Ford or GM in the US, but maybe your government has put the hard word on them.

Here in AU, both companies made out it wasn't their decision to close and it was the governments fault, not their poor practices.

In the end both Ford and GM had about $15 Billion dollars in subsidies in the 10 years prior to them closing.

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by MuseChaser

The guy/gal who invents a car coating whose color can be changed electrically via remote key fob or dash control is going to become very very rich... or very hated by new car dealers since your wife is hardly alone in her purchasing reasoning in this world.

This technology HAS to exist... right?

Yes this exists. It is expensive.

There is LumiLur which is a light based electrically charged paint.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJDZA1Dev4o[/ame]




There is heat reactive paint like Tcoat's Hotwheels example.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pywsCRlPhNY[/ame]

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

Yes this exists. It is expensive.

True and it's amazing stuff (I've seen it in person) but it doesn't let you change the color of the car as it really is only visible at night. It doesn't quite have the output to show up in daylight or at least not in the samples I saw, and it only comes in about 7 or 8 different colors, and you can't switch between them.

Still, its a start. I'd love to have something painted in it.

[Irace86.2.0]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

True and it's amazing stuff (I've seen it in person) but it doesn't let you change the color of the car as it really is only visible at night. It doesn't quite have the output to show up in daylight or at least not in the samples I saw, and it only comes in about 7 or 8 different colors, and you can't switch between them.

Still, its a start. I'd love to have something painted in it.

It is cool until the circuit gets cut from a rock chip then becomes uselss, and I can’t imagine the paint lasting as long.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0

Yes this exists. It is expensive.

There is LumiLur which is a light based electrically charged paint.

There is heat reactive paint like Tcoat's Hotwheels example.

Or you just CGI everything like the marketing folks do and just flip a button. I bet you there's a pearlescent Nissan Altima in someone's archive for the lulz.

Makes you wonder where prolifant augmented reality can go. All cars are made the same, you just buy skins and soundbytes from the brands to skin it in AR lol.