Paint colors

[roddy]

Originally Posted by D_Thissen

If they had a dark green for the FRS, similar to what Jag has for the Ftype, I would have been all over it!

same here.

Originally Posted by humfrz

Yep, one just like this, was my favorite "green" car that I owned ....


humfrz

A guy up the road has a B/GT just like that...that reminds me, he still has my engine stand.

Originally Posted by HotLavaFRS

Guard Green. If the FRS came in this color I may have gotten it.

Thanks for that picture...most of the pictures I have seen of Guard green kind of look grey. It's ok, but the Green Gem color from the F150 would look amazing.
I also have a torch red '07 Mustang.

[NWFRS]

Best.
Color.
EVER.



WITH the appropriate interior color.

[extrashaky]

Originally Posted by venturaII

Can anyone explain why there are almost NO green cars available any more?

There are a few reasons. Primarily, they don't sell that well. The reason? I can think of a few.

First, the classic dark green colors absorb sunlight. That's why plants use chlorophyll (which is green) to help harvest energy from light. When you put green on an object, it will absorb more light than other colors and reflect less light. Light is energy, and energy can't be destroyed, so the light being absorbed has to be converted to another form.

On a car, that form is heat. Depending on the material, some green surfaces can be hotter in sunlight than black. In the past, green paint also didn't hold up as well as some other colors because of the extra heat and UV.

Also, because green absorbs light, green cars are not as easy to see as brighter color cars. A green car doesn't look as brilliant as other cars, and the green could contribute to accidents. It also doesn't photograph as well as other colors, with the green usually appearing much darker in photographs than to the naked eye. With so many people shopping for cars on the auto makers' websites, it's not easy to sell a green car when it's difficult to show people what it really looks like.

Some folks might be willing to put up with those limitations, except that you'll notice that most of the older green cars that looked so good were also trimmed in chrome. Cars these days have a lot less chrome on them, primarily because the "chrome" on the current fleet of cars is all plastic and not chromed steel and therefore looks cheap. People would rather not have cheap plastic chrome on their cars. The auto makers have obliged and put a lot less chrome on vehicles these days.

Unfortunately a solid green car doesn't look anywhere near as good as a green car set off by chrome accents. A BRG MGB looks damned good with chrome wire wheels, bumpers, mirrors, door handles, window trim, headlight bezels and grill. A BRG FR-S with almost no chrome at all is unfortunately going to look pretty dull. And once again, with no chrome to set off the car's features in a photograph, it's going to look dull on a website.

So you'd be buying a dull-looking uncomfortably hot car that you'll drive for a few months before someone who couldn't see it easily smashed it. Not what most people are looking for.

[TRD-X]

Originally Posted by venturaII

Can anyone explain why there are almost NO green cars available any more? I love a dark forest green or BRG, but green cars of almost any hue have all but disappeared from the landscape. I think Toyota's Evergreen Mica would be a fantastic color on the twins.

OP maybe the FR-S Release Series 2.0 will be green.

[5thGenOwner]

Originally Posted by venturaII

Can anyone explain why there are almost NO green cars available any more? I love a dark forest green or BRG, but green cars of almost any hue have all but disappeared from the landscape. I think Toyota's Evergreen Mica would be a fantastic color on the twins.

Camaros have their special edition green flash, that's pretty sexy. ...And had the synergy green, eh.

I think Green is a tough color for automobiles... it can look amazing, but it can also look really, really

One of my first jobs was washing cars at a Porsche/Audi/Jaguar dealer, and they brought in this amazing green Audi. I can't even remember the model, I just remember that color was gorgeous! I'd personally never get a green car, unless it was a $10k+ paint job!

[Packofcrows]

Green is nice but its like eating too much pineapple. It becomes excessively sweet and eventually annoying/bothersome to you.

...i love em too. Green is my favorite colour.

Black gets to me too, but not white, red, or ultramarine blue.