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Same colour – “Bright White” – across two different automakers.
But no way is that the real paint name, the one carefully chosen by the designers. Car colours are far more ridiculous, like: Bleached Alabaster with a hint of metallic Polar Obsidian.
But can’t print that, it’s both too long and unclear. So “bright white” lives.
Blog tag = car colour
There’s probably a classier way to say it, “Tiger’s eye” or something, but basically: brown.
I get why the designers chose it; they must get so bored, the same blue, black and white year after year.
The problem with buying the en vogue colour though, is it really dates your car.
And also, if your friends don’t give you a hard time about driving, “a flying terd”, then they’re not your real friends.
Matte paint is en vogue right now. Looks great, but it’s high maintenance because it’s a porous paint.
But it does broadcast the driver has a disposable income, to both purchase and maintain it.
Read it online here.
The car can only be washed by hand ,… and never again can the car be run through an automatic wash.
Below is BMW’s ‘Frozen’ paint.
So pretty, no touching.
Very few manufacturers offer a matte paint option. Mercedes also does a beautiful job.
And so does Hyundai!
The only manufacturer to offer a matte paint on a non-luxury car.
Available on the Veloster for $800-ish; that’s thousands less than the ones you see above.
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