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Re: White Silver
« Reply #20 on: 11 February 2017, 10:08 »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEKbcQ-LRXE

Ok, that car is definitely not white and it is not silver. So it must be white silver?

If you pause at 27sec - it looks similar to the man's faded blue jeans and light grey t-shirt.

It looks awful!

Is looks worse than awful.
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Re: White Silver
« Reply #21 on: 11 February 2017, 10:39 »
I actually like it.
I don't think it carries over to photos well.

A friend of mine had a Leon Cupra in a similar colour and I have a MINI Cooper in a similar shade.
It varies with light shade from looking white to a pale grey (a similar colour to an iMac funnily enough and also iOS grey backgrounds) and when the sun hits it there are lots of other colours in the paint that come out.

It will contrast nicely with the black bits on the Performance Golfs and will also highlight red (or blue) brake callipers and badge trims.
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Re: White Silver
« Reply #22 on: 11 February 2017, 10:44 »
Almost reminds me of the difference between the Audi colours Ibis White and Suzuka Grey

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Re: White Silver
« Reply #23 on: 12 February 2017, 16:50 »
My local dealer had an UP in white silver metallic so I went for a look yday - looked exactly like the picture of the Golf estate posted by Daz Auto earlier - not nice at all - looks like primer - nothing like the colour in the pictures of the Beetle posted early in this thread -

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Re: White Silver
« Reply #24 on: 03 March 2017, 01:18 »
My local dealer had an UP in white silver metallic so I went for a look yday - looked exactly like the picture of the Golf estate posted by Daz Auto earlier - not nice at all - looks like primer - nothing like the colour in the pictures of the Beetle posted early in this thread -
... I saw a sample - White Silver = flat light grey. IMO standard white looks much better.

Here it is on a Golf - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ELa1KUb7QA




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Re: White Silver
« Reply #25 on: 03 March 2017, 01:28 »
This is White Silver too -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjYF1HM-BL0

You can see white cars in the background.

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Re: White Silver
« Reply #26 on: 05 April 2017, 10:04 »
There was a white silver Golf at the dealers yesterday. It was parked between a pure white Golf and a reflex silver Golf. The light was fading so I didn't take a photo. It looks just like the TT above. It's a light grey colour. I don't know why they are calling it metallic. There was very little metallic flake and almost no sparkle. It just looked like a flat light grey. The reflex silver Golf beside it had much better light reflection on the contours of the car. Beside the pure white Golf, white silver looked really dull.

I guess white silver is going the be a marmite colour.
« Last Edit: 05 April 2017, 13:06 by Daz Auto »

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Re: White Silver
« Reply #27 on: 05 April 2017, 13:47 »
I couldn't see it being "metallic" either.

I'm just sad that I can't have a Golf in Skoda "meteor grey" - thats a proper awesome colour!
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Re: White Silver
« Reply #28 on: 05 April 2017, 14:11 »
I couldn't see it being "metallic" either.

I'm just sad that I can't have a Golf in Skoda "meteor grey" - thats a proper awesome colour!

+1 nice colour on the VRS with black pack. Or Audi Nardo Grey on the RS3.