snappa wrote:

My last car was black.

Looked great clean as cg says but you won't find a worse colour for showing dirt, dust, mud and worst of all, scratches.

Actually I think that nothing is nicer than a real muddy off-roader. The onea you can just see the plates and lamps 9legal prescription) so that this should not realy be a drawback.
Scrathes
I actually like mine with mud up to the windows and did convince my wife that a AWD should just look like this.
Unfortunately this is short lived when we have to go to town and dress in something else than battlefatigues.
FL2 LOOKS GOOD IN ANY COLOR  FREELANDER 2 TD4 SE (XS UK) IZMIR BLUE SIDE STEPS COLD PACK BI-XENON TINTED WINDOWS - AND PROUD OF HER

I had a black Santa Fe a few years back - "plain black". It did show the dirt very well...
So it seems "bling-bling black" is THE black now. The Sumatra black seems a bit bluey indeed - "posh-black"?
I liked the Stornowey Grey for its "mud-coloured" appearance; should have been called "Scottish mud grey"...
I am probably one of the worst for keeping cars clean.... wash maybe once every season... Doing a lot of miles, on a lot of country roads in Ireland. No point washing.
If it came in army green I'd pick that colour.

By the way: what's the story with Java black - another LR colour, but older I believe. Does/did it have brown in it?

Last edited by Fool on the Hill on 11th May 2008 7:56 pm. Edited 1 time in total

My last three vehicles have been black and, every time, friends have said "why the hell have you gone for black, they're impossible to keep clean", but they were all 4X4s and they all looked best in black (my opinion). I don't think they look that bad when they're dirty either, being 4X4s, though mine were normally spotless or quickly returned to that state.

Silver (wife's cars) is the worst I've found for cleaning and the panels often appear to be different shades in sunlight, even when spotlessly clean, though the same colour when the sky is overcast. I always think of resprays when I see that, even though it's an illusion of the light. Was GS TD4 Auto, Privacy, Santorini with Tundra & Alpaca, Cold Climate Pack. Traded for Discovery Sport HSE Auto.

B.L.A.C.K.....Black Land-rovers Against Caravan Kongestion  At work
At home

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winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

Isn't the difference that Narvik is a "solid" paint and Santorini is a mictallic/metallic/pearlescent colour (or in GC speak it have wee flakes of metal in it!)

I learned very early on in my car buying career (I'm on No24 in 26 years of driving.....) from a guy who resprayed cars for a living, never to buy Silver or Black in either solid or metallic paint because it is very very difficult to touch up small dings, whole panels have to be resprayed otherwise the way the metallic flakes lie never matches the direction of the original coating and makes the repaired paint stick out like a sore thumb. Even on my Stornoway Grey car the paint will be very difficult to touchup after stone chipping etc. How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
Now driving - RRE Coupe Dynamic Lux Auto with Plus pack, Fuji White, Ebony, SD4 with tow pack
Gone - 2010MY FFRR TDv8 Stornoway and Ivory, Privacy - the pace of a TDv8 RRS, the incomparable grace of a Range Rover
Gone but will be missed- RRS Tdv8 HSE Stornoway Grey with Ebony Leather
Gone (only a little missed) RRS Tdv6 2.7SE Giverny Green/Aspen
Defender 90 County HT in Epsom Green

ah hem ..my eloquent wording was "Santorini is a rainbow of flakes" .. and strangely enough if you look closely Santorini is a rainbow of flakes . Another CG fact At work
At home

"I can't always believe facts I read on the web" - Charles Dickens

winner by default of the tractor vs caravan race

"Bling bling black" seems very popular and certain people seem very passionate about it...

We used to say "a good horse has no colour".....

But then, horses don't come in so many colour-varieties and their colours don't have fancy marketing names.
Isn't it fascinating that we buy the bloody things to drive IN in the first place but we fret so much about what "colour" to pick...
(The last thing I want to do when I get home is to get out, grab a beer and a chair and stare admiringly at my vehicle...)
I think the inside of the car - ergonomics in particular - is more important than the colour.

Don't get me wrong - I definitely have my preferences too.
(Got a Landcruiser years ago and had it sprayed in a Landrover Green, because Toyota's colours were terrible... )

chicken george wrote:

ah hem ..my eloquent wording was "Santorini is a rainbow of flakes" .. and strangely enough if you look closely Santorini is a rainbow of flakes . Another CG fact

Ah Hem surely thats corn flakes CG

Who let those chickens out Steve Remenber, Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, love truely, laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile.

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Side Steps