Dammit, Hyundai

@sammydog01 there’s nothing inherently wrong with gray. I really like some of the pewter/charcoal grays, and the flat putty gray that Toyota does and Hyundai has used before is not bad. These are all like the same shade of gray, though, with like a drop of blue, green, or yellow to distinguish them. With this palette I would jump at the excitement of a dark shadow gray.

@djslack I don’t really care what color my car is but it sure would be nice to find it in a parking lot. I really miss my antenna.

@djslack @sammydog01 I tell people that my car is painted “parking lot camouflage”. It’s white.

@djslack @rockblossom @sammydog01
I’ve always referred to that as Minnesnowta camouflage

@mossygreen mine’s yellow. Good choice!

@Koolhandjoe that’s what I have now, but yellow. I’ve driven it for almost 10 years and enjoyed it immensely. I hope yours treats you well!

Edit: was it always red, or is that the blood of the innocents spilled from your workshop of evil?

@djslack mine is 7 years old… and last week the passengers door handle fell off and having lots of electrical issues… sadly i doubt it makes it 10 years

@Koolhandjoe that’s a shame. Fun little car even if it’s nowhere near as fast as it looks (at least in base trim).

I would think you could scare the gremlins out of it by introducing it to your hobby.

Maybe a little art car action is in order? Like https://facebook.com/ifoundpenelope

@Koolhandjoe Hmm, big guy, small car. Do you have a special procedure for getting in and out?

@macromeh I am only big horizontally speaking… I am actually only 5’5" tall… so no issues for me getting in and out

@djslack That is a good idea… might have to think about that for a minute

@cf1 Unless it’s night time. Then nobody can see it and becomes an accident magnet!

KuoH

@cf1 it’d probably cost 10 times more than the car, lol!

@cf1 if it could survive a car wash I might like it. I understand the stuff is super fragile though.

Oh yeah, and there’s the budget issue.

These people came close though:

/youtube dip your car musou black

@rinrinrin
/giphy racing stripes

@rinrinrin @sammydog01
Boring. Pass on the racing stripes. Too cliché.

You want flames. Big freakin’ flames.
/giphy flame job

@mike808 @rinrinrin @sammydog01 The best flame paint job ever.

@blaineg @mike808 @rinrinrin @sammydog01 So flaming funny/ not funny!

@rinrinrin see dipyourcar.com for some fun fantasizing. If I can afford this vehicle (pricing not yet announced) I may be shopping there myself.

@djslack @rinrinrin
You might look into some side hustle money applying an advertising wrap to your car if you hate the color. Save the money to pay for the repaint.

@blaineg @rinrinrin @sammydog01
Nice Pinto. It is fire, bro.

@blaineg @mike808 @rinrinrin @sammydog01 Only place I’ve ever seen reverse flames like that was on a demolition derby car, where it was their intent to smash into others while going in reverse. That’s some funny stuff!!

@blaineg @mike808 @rinrinrin @sammydog01 As funny as the flamed Pinto is, what sticks out to me is the business name Signal Lubrication. I realize “Signal” is just the brand name, but it sounds like a gag product, reminiscent of the internet fad of sending in your kid into the auto parts store to buy blinker fluid.

@blaineg @DrWorm @rinrinrin @sammydog01
It was a legit oil and gas company in the 20s in the Western US. Basically it merged into Standard Oil in the 30s.

http://www.mediaheritage.com/signal-oil-history/

@Fuzzalini I used to have a 1999 Honda Civic Si in Electron Blue Pearl. (A mint one sold on bring a trailer last year for like $80k, lol). That was that deep blue with a purple flash, one of my favorite car colors ever.

In my call from Hyundai yesterday they told me in my color choice (the blue gray) the only interior available was black. I’m hoping they come through with more details soon, but I’m probably okay with that, my current interior is also black and it’s not that bad.

@Fuzzalini If we were on the road together, you would definitely see me - I have a electric green Kona. I totally confounded the local Dept of Motor Vehicles when I was registering it. They have a color chart, and you pick which color is closest to your car. There is none…told the clerk - picture Mountain Dew. My car is registered as yellow…Hyundai calls it Lime Twist. Either way, I never lose it in a parking lot, and I tell delivery drivers if you see an electric green car, you are at the correct building.

@Faffs Is it neon tennis ball colored?

@Fuzzalini Yup!

@ACraigL Kind of reminds me of the Subaru Brat:

@ACraigL Or a BRAT.

/image Subaru BRAT

Their later reincarnation was less spectacular:
/image Subaru Baja

@macromeh @narfcake OMG The Brat. That goes back a ways, LOL.

@narfcake wow, that’s trippy! The silver Mini with the red roof really stuck out. And there were a couple of near accidents in the black that made me cringe forgetting it wasn’t real.

@djslack Well, it was “real”, although fully rearranged too.

Nowadays, roughly 80% are achromatic, aka white/black/silver/gray:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/22/most-cars-are-painted-one-of-these-four-colorsheres-why.html

@narfcake right, I meant those cars weren’t about to collide because they didn’t exist at the same time.

This really makes me want to drive something fuchsia. Or the nice ocean turquoise on the new Trailblazer (I think).

@OnionSoup when I bought my Veloster I wanted blue but they said they could only get me a manual transmission in yellow or silver. I chose yellow thinking it will be easily seen and hard to hit. It was hit twice in parking lots relatively quickly. People suck.

I grew to like the yellow a lot. I’m really disappointed that there is no kind of electric neon color for this vehicle. Or even a real color.

@djslack yeah, I think scientifically yellow is the color that we as humans see the easiest. So theoretically, should be the safest car.

All my kayaks are yellow… So if I ever need rescuing, I should be easier to find.

@Trillian wasn’t the night rider’s car called kit?

So it was your instant regret kit? Minus the AI.