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I love all of those colors except Atomic Silver. I preferred the silvers Lexus used on the 92 to 97 SC and the 04 to 06 LS. Atomic Silver looks so boring.
My other favorite Lexus colors were Royal Sapphire Pearl, Garnet Pearl, Flint Mica, Baroque Metallic, and Onyx Black.
I'm not sure that you've actually seen atomic silver, its not a comparable replacement to the silvers Lexus has used in the past...in fact its sold alongside regular silvers. Atomic silver is a trim-coat molten metal/pewter color, its very sharp IMHO.
The silver used on the 04-06 LS430 was mercury metallic...which is just a boring ordinary silver.
Agreed. Atomic Silver is definitely NOT your Ho-Hum everyday silver. To be honest, though, Dodge and Audi once marketed an (IMO) even more impressive Titanium Metallic that was like the Atomic Silver on steroids....an even more pronounced metal-flake effect. It was gorgeous....one of the few silver/grays I ever really liked. They must have dropped it....haven't seen it in the last few years.
(I can't really post an effective image of it.......you have to see it in person, up close, to see what mean).
But, yes..........absent that, the Atomic Silver is probably the best-looking silver today.
I see an Atomic Silver every day in my neighborhood and I just don't care for it but I'm probably in the minority because I never liked Quicksilver in the Supra either which many people loved.
Atomic silver wasn't available on the LS460 for 2015 in the US, but it was available in 2016 and is available in 2017, I was so pissed. I would have chosen AS no doubt. It doesn't look as good on the LS as on some other models, looks good on a car with a lot of shapes and all, the LS460 is pretty flat and it robs the color of some of its dynamism but still very sharp:
It doesn't look as good on the LS as on some other models, looks good on a car with a lot of shapes and all, the LS460 is pretty flat and it robs the color of some of its dynamism but still very sharp:
Stick on a couple of aftermarket body-side moldings down the side, and that will solve that problem LOL.
I'm not sure that you've actually seen atomic silver, its not a comparable replacement to the silvers Lexus has used in the past...in fact its sold alongside regular silvers. Atomic silver is a trim-coat molten metal/pewter color, its very sharp IMHO.
The silver used on the 04-06 LS430 was mercury metallic...which is just a boring ordinary silver.
This:
Is "more exciting" than this?:
And prior to that it was Millenium Silver, that was used (I believe) starting in 1999. It had kind of a green cast to it. I actually had an '03 SC430 in that color. That's the actual picture. It was nice.
I actually never cared for Millennium silver, to me it had a sort of tannish look to it I didn't care for, for an ordinary silver I like a real crisp looking silver. Oddly enough for some reason it looked the most tannish on the ES, I like it more on your SC and that LS. Doesn't look that way in pictures, but when I got my 03 ES300 I wanted silver but stayed away for that reason.
Best silvers Lexus has had IMHO are Liquid Platinum which I had on my GS (wasn't yours too?), which I thought was a great silver, dynamic yet bright and sharp:
And the Alpine Silver our 98 LS400 was, I liked the two tone, and it was a neat silver that had a little green in it:
In 2000 Millennium Silver was available on the LS400 Platinum edition, and it wasn't two toned. Here's a pic to note the difference:
When I think of Lexus, 3 colors come to mind:
Obsidian (black)
Starfire Pearl (white)
Matador Red
All three just seem like classic "Lexus" colors that are beautiful and timeless. I am biased towards black...there's something about a black Lexus that is so intriguing. Like Mercs, Lexus' look best in black, I suppose it's all those subtle chrome accents that set them off.
One color I can't stand: Nebula Grey. Just a soul-sucking, depressing color. I could've gotten my current car for $2K less had I been willing to get that color, but I knew I couldn't live with it. Smokey Granite Mica was a tolerable shade of grey, I don't know why they discontinued it.
01-23-17, 04:12 PM
