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[Soup DeVille]

Do you think this could be due to the "environmentally friendly" water-based paints used on today's cars?  I wonder because I've also noticed a lot of shitty paintwork on new cars but don't recall ever seeing these sort of problems back in the days of lacquer paint.

That's exactly what it is: It doesn't atomize the same way in the guns. In order to maintain line speed, they spray it on too thick.

Its not hard to make a water based paint look good, but plants don't want to slow down their lines.

[Onslaught]

Most body shops are going to water based paints. And then they use the same old clears we've always used. And the clears are what have all the bad shit in them. So in the end it's pointless.

[ifcar]

I wanted blue, settled for silver.

I think this is probably a more typical situation than someone prioritizing retail value. Dealers know that someone is more likely to reject a car because of a bright/unusual color than one of the more typical ones, and stock up accordingly.

[Soup DeVille]

That is a niiiiiiiiiiice color.

I hope it turns out good.

[AutobahnSHO]

mmmmmmmm    Rootbeer

[Raza]

Three out of four of my cars have been black.  The other was gray. 

[FoMoJo]

My wife's Escape is bright red and mine is chrome yellow.  My daughter says that the garage looks like a crayon box.  Her boyfriend just bought a '12 Focus.  She was trying to persuade him go get electric blue.  He said he liked the grey better .

The '50s paint schemes are still my favourite...baby blues, pinks, corals, aquas, reds, chartreuse, burgundy, shades of purple; any bright colour under the sun; usually in two or three different colour combinations.

[S204STi]

Chartreuse is a groovy color.

[FoMoJo]

Chartreuse is a groovy color.

Can't say I've seen a lot of cars in that colour but I'm always reminded of some song lyrics when it's mentioned...

Well, we rolled up Interstate 44
Like a rocket sled on rails.
We tore up all of our swindle sheets,
And left 'em settin' on the scales.
By the time we hit that Chi-town,
Them bears was a-gettin' smart:
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard.
There's armored cars, and tanks, and jeeps,
And rigs of ev'ry size.
Yeah, them chicken coops was full'a bears
And choppers filled the skies.
Well, we shot the line and we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus
In a chartreuse micra-bus.

[S204STi]

lol, great song.