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Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?

Brian P said:
Flat or matte finish is just another style, just like pastel colours of the 1950s were a style that came and went. Personally ... dislike. Looks like someone painted the vehicle with Tremclad. I've heard they're harder to keep clean, because the normal waxes and polishes can't be used. (well, you can, but you'll end up with a blotchy kinda-shiny-in-spots finish)
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I love the non-metallic colours that are coming out right now. My GTI is the Cornflower Blue and I love the colour to bits.

The new shades coming out of BMW/AUDI/MB with light hints of blue/green/grey and the colour combinations are gorgeous. Much better than the majority of white/black/silver/grey which apparently makes up 30% of new car sales.

I was literally listening to this earlier this week, and highly recommend.

 
Non-metallic colours have always been the standard offering on base models, with metallic colours being an added cost option. But that's very different from flat colours.
 
mimico_polak said:
I love the non-metallic colours that are coming out right now. My GTI is the Cornflower Blue and I love the colour to bits.

The new shades coming out of BMW/AUDI/MB with light hints of blue/green/grey and the colour combinations are gorgeous. Much better than the majority of white/black/silver/grey which apparently makes up 30% of new car sales.

I was literally listening to this earlier this week, and highly recommend.

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The Turbo S in the neighbourhood is a greenish silver. I don't see that colour in the normal colours, I don't see it in the $16K upgrade colours. Did they spring for $42K upgrade custom colour? Maybe? I'll ask him when I see him. It looks cool. It may be fish silver grey but my memory says it's greener.

iris
 
Relax said:
Paint looks great. With all the extra money they're getting from that option, you'd think they could afford a dentist to fix their buckteeth.
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i don't mind the grille at all, sure at first it was very polarizing but..if you black it out it looks great (imo). BMW makes my favourite colour ever so i might be slightly biased;

Isle of Man Green!!!

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Back to EVs as this colour derail is very fun regardless...

So...apparently Ford Maverick is coming with AWD Hybrid option...that ain't going to be cheap.
 
mimico_polak said:
Back to EVs as this colour derail is very fun regardless...

So...apparently Ford Maverick is coming with AWD Hybrid option...that ain't going to be cheap.
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the Maverick dream still alive?
 
mimico_polak said:
The new shades coming out of BMW/AUDI/MB with light hints of blue/green/grey and the colour combinations are gorgeous. Much better than the majority of white/black/silver/grey which apparently makes up 30% of new car sales.
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Tony Beek, one of the best painters in Toronto, has been doing that for years. He did the repaint on my Dekerf Mountain (OG was metallic tangerine w. matching fork). I took the frame to my paint guy when I wanted to colour match Mag 21 fork sliders for it. He was looking at it under a magnifying glass under different light and scratching his head. Told me there's a very light green tint in it, and he couldn't make out the particular RAL# or amount of it.

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mimico_polak said:
Do dreams ever die? Yes it’s always in the back of my head, but the GTI is just…good in everything.
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if you got the DSG version you'd probably be more apt to keep it. wife can use it, no more gritting your teeth on the soul killing rush hour traffic...yeah it's not as involved but if you aren't taking it out on backroad romps anyways be honest with yourself about it's intended usage.
 
Evoex said:
if you got the DSG version you'd probably be more apt to keep it. wife can use it, no more gritting your teeth on the soul killing rush hour traffic...yeah it's not as involved but if you aren't taking it out on backroad romps anyways be honest with yourself about it's intended usage.
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If it's stop and go rush hour, dsg is going to hate you. It really doesn't like much less than 10 kph. I don't know how slow you can go before it can't lock up anymore (and that's part of the issue as there is no easy way to determine if it's locked or slipping).
 
Evoex said:
if you got the DSG version you'd probably be more apt to keep it. wife can use it, no more gritting your teeth on the soul killing rush hour traffic...yeah it's not as involved but if you aren't taking it out on backroad romps anyways be honest with yourself about it's intended usage.
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Tried that. The dealer low balled me on my 6MT, and kept their full price for the DSG…

‘You know car prices have gone down’
‘Oh cool so you can reduce your DSG also?’
‘No no, just trade values went down. Our price is fair’

So a 2021 GTI Autobahn MT -> 2021 GTI Autobahn DSG = $8k (mine had less kms)

That’s a hard pass for me.
 
Relax said:
Non-metallic colours have always been the standard offering on base models, with metallic colours being an added cost option. But that's very different from flat colours.
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I think there's three different combos at play here. Non-metallic base colour (red, blue, black, white, etc) which have been around forever; matte finish but often metallic painted cars like the BMW's posted above where there is no shiny clear coat; and the last is what @MacDoc posted about, which have become more common in the past few years: clear coated non-metallic paint that looks dull and almost matte, very much like wet putty or like primer paint. The colours are usually muted greys and blues, almost pastel shades. Porsche, BMW and Audi popularised them first, but VW, Honda, and a bunch of others have started offering them in the past year or two...
 
Those matte finishes are still clearcoated, it's just a different formulation that doesn't give a shiny finish. I'm not sure anyone does single-stage paint other than fleet white or fleet black for commercial vehicles.

IMO flat or eggshell or semi-gloss is for walls, and it goes on with a roller.
 
Brian P said:
Those matte finishes are still clearcoated, it's just a different formulation that doesn't give a shiny finish. I'm not sure anyone does single-stage paint other than fleet white or fleet black for commercial vehicles.

IMO flat or eggshell or semi-gloss is for walls, and it goes on with a roller.
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The 'well, ackshully," pedant in me just can't resist pointing out that I said no *shiny* clear coat, no matter how hard I try to just leave it and not reply. But then again, I didn't clarify that the clear coat on the putty cars was shiny, so only have myself to blame...

And I'm with you on non-gloss finishes. Had a 2008 ZX-14 'Special Edition's in satin black with satin wine red accents (fortunately the previous owner had pulled off the iridescent flame stickers), and I did not like it. Sold that bike faster than any I've owned before or since. But then again, I'm also not a fan of these 'putty' colours much either, and have a feeling they'll age about as well as the faux wood panelling and brown and avocado green cars from the late-'70s and early-'80s...
 
Evoex you can shift the colour topic to a new thread if you like as it seems of broad interest.
I am enamoured of the candy apple red that Mazda seems to have mastered.
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Instantly identifiable and popular here despite the overwhelming choice of white for the tropics. Could hardly find our white Audi A3 rental in the Port Arthur convict center given all the similar clones.
Have not made up my mind on the new "putty" colours. Do like some.

Honda does a great job with its paint. Had a 1993 ST1100 and the deep red paint job was still mint.
 
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