My R deserved a wash...

[Booth11]

Nice to see in in it's more natural state 

I don't think it does look more bronzey necessarily.  I like the way the LSG changes according to the light, sometimes more grey, sometimes more bronze, and I think it is a brilliant colour against the Pretorias, they really complement each other

[ajmoir36]

I am a Tornado Red -> Limestone Grey convert. Its growing on me...I admit I enjoyed cleaning a car that wasn't so stone chipped the old GTD looked liked the moons surface it was so pitted. But I suppose that's what 80,000 miles does to it.

[Booth11]

I am a Tornado Red -> Limestone Grey convert. Its growing on me...I admit I enjoyed cleaning a car that wasn't so stone chipped the old GTD looked liked the moons surface it was so pitted. But I suppose that's what 80,000 miles does to it.

No shame in having a few (or lot) of stone chips after 80k miles.  Noticed mine's picked up quite a few more thus last year, but then they keep resurfacing the roads with loose chippings 

I thought hard about switching to a metallic colour when ordering my R, but, despite the pain involved in keeping on top of it, there's just something about pearl black when it's clean andy I'm seduced every time. 

[ajmoir36]

I have to agree a clean black car that is swirlless looks fantastic.

[Booth11]

I have to agree a clean black car that is swirlless looks fantastic.

But is there any such thing as a swirless black car?  Only for the time between last polish and next wash 

[ffrank]

Beautiful car, thanks for adding more pics ajmoir.

They have further confirmed for me my leaning to LSG and prets, if I do ever go to the R.

Booth - I don't think I have seen a DPB R yet (have you?!), can't wait to see your pics when you get it.

[Wo-Wo]

Looks stunning!

[Booth11]

Beautiful car, thanks for adding more pics ajmoir.

They have further confirmed for me my leaning to LSG and prets, if I do ever go to the R.

Booth - I don't think I have seen a DPB R yet (have you?!), can't wait to see your pics when you get it.

Not seen a DBP in the flesh, ffrank.  There are one or two in Rforum and I vaguely remember seeing a pic there some time ago.  There's probably more but I can't be bothered to trawl through the pic threads to look   

I think someone else in the MK7 section here has one on order (gazmondo35??) which predates my order so hopefully he'll post some pics up so we can have a look.  Not sure if he's specced prets though. 

If I'm honest I think the metallic colours suit the sharper creases of the mk7 in general, but I think with the prets and the brushed silver mirror/lip accents DBP could look fantastic, at least I hope so, otherwise it's an expensive mistake 

[ajmoir36]

Thanks peeps,booth you'll be ok it will look fantastic.

[MAW73]

That's the best colour in the R for me. Very nice indeed.

Its so nice I might need to downgrade from my M135i to one of those in the future