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Old 01-12-19, 08:39 PM
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Default Curious: Your GS Color?—Article on Car Color

Interesting article in the attached link. What color is your your GS?

This popped up in my news feed. Slow night on call.

https://www.thebalance.com/most-popu...colors-4160630

I then looked at KBB.

https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/artic...-color-to-buy/

Apparently silver, white, and black are the most popular vehicle colors.

My F Sport is Atomic Silver, my wife’s RX350 is white, daily driver pickup is silver, our son’s pickup is dark grey, and our daughter’s SUV is white.

Note: I’ve personally owned 6 silver cars in a row as daily drivers. To me they stay clean looking when dirty and hide swirl marks/blemishes easily. Yes, I don’t keep my daily driver very clean except for the occasional automated car wash. Silver works well.

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My 4GS is Starfire Pearl. Makes sense that silver, white and black are the most popular colors...its rare to find other colors around my area.
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Mine is Metro Blue as it was called in 2013. Don't see many of them that color. Don't see many of them around here at all actually.
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USB 2.0. shopping around was horrible because the dealer pretty much has silver, white, black, and gray cause thats what people want. I'll admit if blue wasn't available i would have gone gray or white but blue was an option and looked too good/unique that I had to have it. I have yet to see another gs350 in blue. not sure if people actually want these colors or if its just what the dealers have so thats what people buy. I have noticed plenty of blue corollas on the road but i wonder what percentage of corollas are that color.
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White with whatever 3rd coat is called, I had a chance to get Blue one but wife scuttled the idea.
White is safe choice any day. Most vehicles look good in white.
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Default Deep Sea Mica '15 GS

2015 GS Deep Sea Mica . Hard to keep clean but man it looks good. I love the way it looks black at night and then the blue pops in the sunlight!

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My '17 GS350 is Eminent White Pearl. Nearly every car I've owned has been white. Easier to maintain and, unless its really nasty, it looks clean when it isn't. That, and white never gets old.

Here's an interesting piece on car color popularity from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_colour_popularity
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What Exterior Color Is Your GS 350?
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Deep Sea Mica, could not find it in stock in Southern CA had to drive 100 miles north to buy mine, found it on E-bay.
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I got Caviar ( Black)
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Caviar, PIA to keep clean but worth it when clean with the chrome shoes on, cant beat it!!
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color demand depends on area too, and dealerships know this so they order accordingly.
I recall when shopping for my GS that the Beverly Hills dealer had more black models than ones closer to me, and more inland dealers had white examples (perhaps to due a hotter climate out there).
other colors like red and blue are more scarce.

color is just the start; pricing, options, incentives, etc are factors as well.
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