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Viggen posted:Two silver sedans as well checking in.. I like silver. I usually joke "If I wanted to go undercover, I'd buy an early 2000s white Impala." They're everywhere. A silver sedan or wagon is as close to stealth mode as possible, at least around here. I don't mind it, actually.
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VikingSkull posted:Also, before anyone furthers the "I'd take one to do x with", we've had about a dozen various cars spontaneously burst into flames.
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RE: silver cars: you're paying for paint, you might as well choose an actual color.
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A lot of cars just straight up aren't available in anything but white/black/silver/grey. See: Hyundai / Kia. When I bought my Audi all the colorful, uh, colors were all special orders.
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Snowdens Secret posted:A lot of cars just straight up aren't available in anything but white/black/silver/grey. See: Hyundai / Kia. When I bought my Audi all the colorful, uh, colors were all special orders. The Audi Coupe GT in the 80s were available in only White, Black, Grey, or Red.
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Collateral Damage posted:Is there a reason other than the work involved that you don't pull the battery out from cars when they come in? They are supposed to do that when the truckers pick them up, but most transport drivers are loving lazy idiots.
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Clearly anything worth buying will come in a choice of non-road camo colors. Both of my cars are red. Red is the fastest color, according to a survey of 6 year old boys.
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You can have it in any color you want, just so long as it's black.
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I've only got one rollover red car and it definitely belongs in this thread. loving thing 
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Viggen posted:You can have it in any color you want, just so long as it's black. There was a silver Saab in the background 
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CommieGIR posted:There was a silver Saab in the background That wasn't a Turbo X. 
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Stuff White People Like: Giving themselves ecological guilt complexes and trying to buy their way out. (on an Evoque)
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blk posted:Stuff White People Like: Giving themselves ecological guilt complexes and trying to buy their way out. I'm So buying a few of those emblems to put on my refinery huggin' p38. I was looking for vacuum adjust Bosch E spec lights for my w124 and saw this.  
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KozmoNaut posted:A silver sedan or wagon is as close to stealth mode as possible, at least around here. I don't mind it, actually. A silver or white 2000-2008 Altima is probably the perfect getaway car; so completely and utterly forgettable I'm surprised people don't crash into them more often due to forgetting them as soon as they look away.
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Viggen posted:Two silver sedans as well checking in.. I like silver. I usually joke "If I wanted to go undercover, I'd buy an early 2000s white Impala." They're everywhere. 
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Cocoa Crispies posted:A silver or white 2000-2008 Altima is probably the perfect getaway car; so completely and utterly forgettable I'm surprised people don't crash into them more often due to forgetting them as soon as they look away. Must depend on where you live because around here you see almost no Nissans. There are a few Nissan trucks around but they are maybe 1 in 20. The rednecks (read: everyone) around here still harbor a distaste for "imports" or "jap shitboxes"  There is almost no variety where I live, even the econoboxes are mostly Cavaliers and Focuses. I wish people around here were more enlightened, I'd love to see something other than F-150s and beater 90's domestics on the road around here. I saw a beautiful 911 GT2 among the usual '60s and '70s muscle cars at a car show at the local burger joint, so I went up to the guy (awesome Swiss guy who had moved to the states about a year before) and while we were talking about his car a bunch of local dudes walking by shouted something like "Euro human being" or something to that effect. I need to move. Even in the northeast there are still pockets of unrelenting backwardness.
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blk posted:Stuff White People Like: Giving themselves ecological guilt complexes and trying to buy their way out. I read that as carbon not neutral. With the whole bright colours thing, our local police car colours were inspired by Windows' Hotdog stand theme. Bright red, yellow and blue. I mean one of each. Not harlequin cop cars.
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I think stuff that would go in the cell phone pics thread goes here now? 
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Dude is just transporting his mannequin heads to a new helmet shop or somethin'. No issue there.
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Zefiel posted:I think stuff that would go in the cell phone pics thread goes here now? All I can picture here is this guy showing up to motorcycle accidents like those insurance claims vehicles. "Excuse me sir, I couldn't help but notice that you need a new helmet."
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The greatest thing about the picture, though, is that you know for certain that before the trip he checked every chinstrap to be sure the helmets were strapped on tight.
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cursedshitbox posted:I'm So buying a few of those emblems to put on my refinery huggin' p38. I should do the same on my tuned Classic(4.2 block, cammed, ported and polished, etc). 9-10MPG. Yeah, that's close enough. I'd like to think it's better for the environment to keep this, now 23 year old, truck running than buy something newer. Don't tell me any different. Also, what it doesn't burn it returns to the earth with its 'flow-through oil filtration system(Land Rover™)'.
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Bucephalus posted:RE: silver cars: you're paying for paint, you might as well choose an actual color. But if you are a manufacturer and want a modern metallic clear coat paint that won't fade or turn brittle in the sun or use an assload of solvent to apply apparently silver, white, and black are your best bets. I have blue, but it really is riding the edge of black. Around here a silver acura or lexus coupe would be the ideal getaway car. You can even drive like a total rear end and nobody will think it is out of the ordinary. A bit outside of the city and you will want to switch to a white F250 and go 15 under the limit in the left lane.
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I hate those exact three colors. They're just so drat boring. Although, black is kinda 50/50. Some cars look pretty good in black but not other colors. Around here, you're ideal get-away vehicle would be something from the Mopar field. Don't know why, but since Katrina, it's been practically nothing but Dodge Chargers, Challengers, Avengers, Magnum, and the list goes on. That and Nissan. There's so many Altimas & Optimas EVERYWHERE. It's just odd for being in the South.
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My first 4 cars were either grey or silver. I want nothing to do with those colors ever again.
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Bucephalus posted:RE: silver cars: you're paying for paint, you might as well choose an actual color. I had no choice, my Flex came in silver. At the end of the company lease, I have right of first refusal; if I buy it, I WILL re-paint it. cursedshitbox posted:I was looking for vacuum adjust Bosch E spec lights for my w124 and saw this. More like 
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Devyl posted:That and Nissan. There's so many Altimas & Optimas EVERYWHERE. It's just odd for being in the South. Not that weird, considering where most (if not all) of the Altimas and Optimas sold in the US are made (Mississippi and Tennessee for the Nissan, and Georgia for the Kia).
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Nissans basically expand in a concentric circle from the US south. THey are huge in the southern states, less common as you go north and almost non-existant in Canada for some reason (The "big 3" Japanese marques in Canada are Toyota, Honda and Mazda).
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Almost as many Nissans as Mazdas in Nova Scotia. Honda and Toyota are still about twice as popular though.
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Snowdens Secret posted:A lot of cars just straight up aren't available in anything but white/black/silver/grey. See: Hyundai / Kia. When I bought my Audi all the colorful, uh, colors were all special orders. My wife's Kia Spectra5 is a bright metallic blue, and I've seen a fair number in the orangey/copper color that was available. Yellow, too. But, as previously mentioned, this is on a smallish, sporty-ish car. I haven't seen those colors on, say, an Optima. Shifty Pony posted the article I read on why this is, so there you go.
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Silver cars are the worst idea in Seattle. I had one as a work car, and got ran in to by random vehicles two or three times before I just started leaving the lights on all the time.
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My car is white, but I wish I could have found a GTP in that awesome metallic orange they used. I see a car exactly like mine but in that dark coppery color fairly often.
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My car is "Mocha Foam". If you look inside the engine bay where it has the colour but not the metallic finish it's essentially baby poo. I like white cars. Not a fan of the colour, but they are easy to see under most conditions, don't show body damage as much, reflect heat pretty well and are drat easy to patch sections on without it standing out. Which is good for me because I'm not fantastic at keeping paint attached to cars.
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MikeyTsi posted:Silver cars are the worst idea in Seattle. I had one as a work car, and got ran in to by random vehicles two or three times before I just started leaving the lights on all the time. This is a good point. There are a lot of idiots around New England who drive in the rain/fog, in their silver cars, with their lights off. Turn on your loving lights, no I don't care that there's no state law, no I don't care that you think you can see just fine, you're like a loving ghost ship coming out of the mists, turn on your loving lights. This actually goes for most any color, but silver is the worst. (That was the general 'you' not directed specifically at MikeyTsi)
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I have two black cars, two silver cars, and one silver-green car. gently caress all y'haters. You don't choose what color you get when they're used.. or only available in one color.
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This looks like one of those cars you see in future-set sci-fi films, littering the roads after the WWIII apocalypse. I wanna see that rear bumper flop around on the expressway 
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