Cars We Drive! - Page 363

Originally Posted by nootje 

British racing green

Originally Posted by impolyt_one 

well, the Japanese are really stoic, there are traditional colors for cars that are mostly still respected. It's much like work uniforms and white collar suiting in the workplace; things should be a certain color to denote your place, standing out is not good. There is just not a good place for green cars. Black = executives in chaffeured cars like S classes, 7's, LS460's, etc (navy is acceptable too) - white cars are often small little econoboxes issued by companies to be daily runabout cars; blue collars drive white or previously blue trucks and vans; truly commercial vehicles and taxis are in bright colors, but still look like they're from the 70's/80's... the only time you truly expect to see a non-white/silver/black car here is if it's an imported sports car. The roads are a sea of monochrome, accented by a few outliers in weird cars, and then the usual weird Porsche colors, maybe a red Ferrari, etc.

Originally Posted by impolyt_one 

Kind of a shame about the new Aston, all of the proportions are heavy handed and it plays way too much to the tastes of the tasteless. The DB9 still looks good in light of this thing; this rear treatment looks like it came out of a Wings West catalog from the mid 1990's:

Originally Posted by rocks 

Another vote for the V1 here; also get it hardwired for a clean stealth install. This is a pretty straightforward diy in the E46.

Originally Posted by A Y 

Unless you're in Virginia or some place where radar detectors are illegal, I don't understand why people do the stealth install. Hardwire with the cables hidden, yes, but hiding the unit itself?
OK, maybe if you like your interior to look clean, but police officers who have seen mine during stops pretty much ignore it (the 2 times that has happened, and one pointed to it, and said, "Don't worry, I didn't stop you for speeding.")