You can't judge by PHOTOS.... Not in brochures, and CERTAINLY not on your monitor (every monitor is adjusted differently), YOU NEED TO VISIT THE HYUNDAI SHOWROOM.

 

Deepwater blue is not an easy color to capture. In the second pic I tried like heck to show the metallic highlights, hope it comes across in the resized pic. Also tried brightening the first pic to better show the blue in the sedan which wound up turning my Tiburon into a nuclear banana.

 

Originally posted by mamamia@Apr 10 2006, 12:46 AM
You can't judge by PHOTOS.... Not in brochures, and CERTAINLY not on your monitor (every monitor is adjusted differently), YOU NEED TO VISIT THE HYUNDAI SHOWROOM.

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while that is true, the problem is that smaller dealers (like mine) only have a few models on hand. i went on the weekend to test drive and all they had was cinammon, white, and black.

 

Originally posted by mc229@Apr 7 2006, 10:26 PM
More facts:

A.  Most people (except for maybe hunters) would say that orange, although safe, is quite ugly.

B.  I don't mind washing my car.  I've got nothing against metallic beige in general (have it on my Yukon), but didn't like it on the Sonata.  Personal preferences right?

C.  Didn't particularly need for my car to look big.  Most cars look small with my gargantuan corn-fed self driving them and scraping the headliner with my pate anyhow.

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ROFL -I have to agree on all points.

 

Hyundai should have made GREEN a color option, as in the color of money saved, or the color that other dealerships are envious with.

:banana: :460:

mc229:
If you keep bumping your head when you enter your Sonata, you should have ordered this option, which is standard on Canadian Sonatas --

 

What is the Color of Love?. Love comes in all colors, but the DEEPWATER Blue is deep. Best Blue on Planet Earth!

 

Originally posted by MiamiLX@Apr 10 2006, 10:40 AM
What is the Color of Love?. Love comes in all colors, but the DEEPWATER Blue is deep. Best Blue on Planet Earth!

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You can {sort of} see it here:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c394/bobad/Picture017.jpg

 

As a graphic designer I bump into this same problem of how COLOR is displayed differently on different monitors....

There is just no way to rely on your monitor to show exact colors, unless you use an expensive CRT monitor ($3,500 for a 22" screen), and expensive hardware+software to CALIBRATE it....

So no matter what any of you guys see on THEIR monitor, the rest of us see it different.

And again, there is NO WAY that anyone can rely on photos - even those printed on hi-quality brochures - to represent the colors of cars, ESPECIALLY DARK-COLOR CARS. You need to SEE the car, in daylight AND at night.

One more note about colors. As I noted before, a WHITE car looks LARGER than a dark-color car (which is true for how women dress up... they KNOW the secret):
When I first saw the Sonata parked a nearby hotel it was a Cinnamon red, and to me it looked SMALLER then our newly purchased Accord... When I went to see my white car at the dealership, it looked MUCH LARGER... Actually, parked in our garage side by side to our Accord, the Sonata looks LARGER.

Though I think the Sonata IS larger than the Accord.

 

One more note about colors. As I noted before, a WHITE car looks LARGER than a dark-color car (which is true for how women dress up... they KNOW the secret)

OK, mamamia, get the white paint away from your pants. Nobody's going to think it looks any bigger.



(That was a joke, in case anyone took it seriously and was offended)

Like the hockey helmet, motd, but I think I might still have my old Appleton Foxes minor league baseball helmet. Should work just as well.

:grin:

 

I went down to my dealer to look at a Sonata in that new color that just came out. It's called Invisible Sienna.

The dealer said he had one on the lot but we couldn't find it. Looked everywhere. :grin:

 

BRIGHT SILVER!!! That's the one we wanted!!! Not crystal silver!!! (Canadian baby blue) My wife saw a Sonata, that she said was SILVER SILVER, and I told her that she was on crack. I then thought that she saw an Accord, and not a Sonata. Sure enough, today ripping around is a bright silver Sonata. I then saw the Washington State licence plate. That explains everything. What a nice color. Only in America... pity.

 

Originally posted by bobad@Apr 10 2006, 12:19 PM
You can {sort of} see it here:

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c394/bobad/Picture017.jpg

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Oh yeah, and it's spectacular too, possibly the Worlds best color Bob. I'd print your Sonata , but I am using the last page of the Brochure, incredible!

 

And trust me, I ignore everything her friend says. She's probably trying to get my wife to join some cult as we speak. I can't ignore what my wife says, though - well, at least not all of the time - and her friend got her to buy into her silver causing wrecks  :460: misconception. So no steel gray or silver for me.

The facts don't necessarily support that assertion. Here is a study showing SILVER as the SAFEST color to drive in. I would like to find a study showing silver being the most dangerous. Now that would be funny! :wacko:

http://www.antiquecar.com/feature_hi_ho_silver.php

 

Aquamarine...looks great clean and good after a week of driving.

 

SILVER as the SAFEST color to drive in.

...Well, as my wife says when she wants to end an argument, "Whatever"... I don't buy the notion that Silver is a safer color than, say White, and CERTAINLY not safer than an orange ot yellow.

But, as we notice every now and then, there is ALWAYS a "new research" published, which is contradicting previously known and accepted facts... So, be it.

Any driver can attest as to which color car is easier to spot. Especially on the highway, driving in rain, with reduced visibility.

 

So buy a nice, shiny, reflective silver car, and drive next to someone with the hideous (but safe) hunter orange. Their color will bounce off of yours, and badabing! You're SAFE!! WOOHOO!!!!!!!!

:grin:

 

Well, as my wife says when she wants to end an argument, "Whatever"... I don't buy the notion that Silver is a safer color than, say White, and CERTAINLY not safer than an orange ot yellow.

But, as we notice every now and then, there is ALWAYS a "new research" published, which is contradicting previously known and accepted facts... So, be it.

Any driver can attest as to which color car is easier to spot. Especially on the highway, driving in rain, with reduced visibility.

I was pointing out that research to help the other guy. I found surprisingly FEW studies from a web search but many "EXPERT" opinions such as yours.

At one time red was perceived to be the best color. Research shows red is perceived as black at night and people have particularly poor peripheral detection of red shades. I find this interesting, you might not. Then again the world must be flat because at one time any person could attest to it.

 

soooo anyways.....lets see pics of your Sonata in their varous colours

 

Crystal Silver, Canadian style...

 

I found surprisingly FEW studies from a web search but many "EXPERT" opinions such as yours.

-- I don't consider myself an expert in cars' colors. You look at the previous post (motd's) silver car, and then look at the orange car at the top of this page...

...And tell me, driving next to you on a rainy day, which car would you would you notice first, the silver one or the orange?

 

Let it go, move on, let's stop being so fftopic: and just talk about what color car we have...nobody else is interested in continuing that line of discussion.

 

Originally posted by motd@Apr 14 2006, 09:29 PM
Crystal Silver, Canadian style...

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Motd, the pic makes your Crystal Silver look a lot like our Bright Silver. Is the Canadian style less blue than elsewhere, or have I just had too much Moosehead? :beer:

p.s. Nice photo, makes me feel homesick

 

Carlos:
When we first saw it, my wife said, "any color but that baby blue!" Then we ordered a "crystal silver" Sonata, and THIS crystal silver showed up! The dealer wanted $400 to order another car, steel gray, but we said, "no way hoser, take off, eh! $400 will buy a LOT of beer..." (Can't get any more Canadian than that!)

The American website has the same color, called "crystal blue," I believe.

We're use to it now, and enough people have said that they like the color. As long as the tranny doesn't fall out of it, or the engine explode, we're happy. In 5 1/2 years we're trading it in, anyway. By then "flaming orange" will be all the rage... :w00t:

 

Mine is gray silver

 

Originally posted by motd@Apr 15 2006, 11:57 AM
By then "flaming orange" will be all the rage... :w00t:

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Or "schwinging scarlet"

And I agree that you get used to the blueness of the Crystal Silver. When the '06 Sonata was released over here, the dealers were really pushing the colour so I saw a lot of it on the road. Pretty soon, I stopped noticing the blueness and just saw it as silver. It's only when I see it next to the Bright Silver that I see the blue strongly again.

Now, let's see...$400 worth of beer. My Bob and Doug math says that at something like $35 CDN per case (24 bottles), that gives you about 11 or 12 cases , or almost 275 bottles! Good call! :essen37: