Forester color

[P T]

I have a 2004 Forester, the dark green color. I urge people not to buy
a Forester in this color, or similar very dark colors.

There are an amazing number of vehicles in America of the same general
color and shape. In parking lots, I often have trouble locating my car.

Coming out of the market today, I saw a man walking toward my vehicle
like he was going to get in. He didn't look like a thief, so I hung
back a little to watch. When he was just about to enter it, he veered
away, walked around the car, and got in another dark SUV next to mine.

I wanted a red Forester: I wish I had searched harder for one.

 

[seasick]

I have a 2004 Forester, the dark green color. I urge people not to buy
a Forester in this color, or similar very dark colors.

There are an amazing number of vehicles in America of the same general
color and shape. In parking lots, I often have trouble locating my car.

Coming out of the market today, I saw a man walking toward my vehicle
like he was going to get in. He didn't look like a thief, so I hung
back a little to watch. When he was just about to enter it, he veered
away, walked around the car, and got in another dark SUV next to mine.

I wanted a red Forester: I wish I had searched harder for one.

Throw 18's on her, drop her a bit, add some flames and 5% tint - you're good
to go!

 

[Frank]

My Foresters have been red. First one had to be brought from a dealer
300 miles away. Red is also common but I wanted a color that can be
seen on the road and stands out.

 

[Body Roll]

LOL. That's a good one. A coworker at my previous employer sweared he'd
paint
flaming bolts on his Prius. But the guy was all talk and a cheapskate.
Makes me wonder how he picked a Prius over an Echo. Must've been a
spite thing
to the oil industry.

 

[yngver]

I have a 2004 Forester, the dark green color. I urge people not to buy
a Forester in this color, or similar very dark colors.

There are an amazing number of vehicles in America of the same general
color and shape. In parking lots, I often have trouble locating my car.

Coming out of the market today, I saw a man walking toward my vehicle
like he was going to get in. He didn't look like a thief, so I hung
back a little to watch. When he was just about to enter it, he veered
away, walked around the car, and got in another dark SUV next to mine.

I wanted a red Forester: I wish I had searched harder for one.

Have a dark blue 2006 Forester and have already walked up to another
one in the parking lot--what stopped me was noticing that my car seemed
to have gotten a lot of scratches since that morning. The remote beeped
just like it was unlocking my car, too.

On the other hand my car before this was a red Honda Civic--a couple of
times I actually put my key in the door of another red Civic. Scary
part is that the key turned part way too. Then I noticed an overcoat in
the car which was definitely not mine.

My husband's Legacy is green and yeah, we see a lot of them too. My
point is that there are lots of cars in most Subaru colors--one thing I
dislike about Subaru is there isn't any choice of a distinctive color.
This year my color choices were red, black, blue, beige, light grey,
dark grey or white. I don't like beige interiors so that didn't leave
much. Would have liked the lighter green but that's only on the LL Bean
edition, which we didn't want. If they had a true silver instead of
just grey, I might have chosen that.

A few years ago at an auto show saw a Forester in a black
sparkle--really nice. I don't think they ever actually produced it
though.
-yngver

 

[seasick]

LOL. That's a good one. A coworker at my previous employer sweared he'd
paint
flaming bolts on his Prius. But the guy was all talk and a cheapskate.
Makes me wonder how he picked a Prius over an Echo. Must've been a
spite thing
to the oil industry.

Hehe, flaming Prius. Now *that* would be hard to miss.

 

[Michael Pardee]

LOL. That's a good one. A coworker at my previous employer sweared he'd
paint
flaming bolts on his Prius. But the guy was all talk and a cheapskate.
Makes me wonder how he picked a Prius over an Echo. Must've been a
spite thing
to the oil industry.

I had trouble with the visual at first - what size bolts? Like head bolts or
more like brake caliper bolts? Then the realization hit me. <8^P

The Prius and Echo are very different cars. The Echo is an economy car while
the Prius is a more upscale car, above the Corolla on the price and feature
scale. The older Prius is very much like a Corolla in size (almost identical
except for increased passenger room) while the current model is
significantly larger... too big for my tastes.

Mike

 

[Sheldon]

I have a white Outback and live at a ski resort. Usually about 20 or so
white Outbacks with the same trimmings in every large parking lot I go to.
I think people in the same regions tend to buy the same colors.

 

[Body Roll]

Hehe, flaming Prius. Now *that* would be hard to miss.

Heck, you'd think those people would drive at 50 mph in the rightmost
lane.
Not so. They do as if they had a porsche, or at the very least S2000.
Darting 80 mph in the 1st lane on their shitty tires. As if their
stupid hybrid
system is of any help on freeway. I'd take a new aerodynamically
efficient
non hybrid civic over it anytime. Too bad CAFE was not updated to
measure
highway fuel efficiency at 80-90 mph. That would've blown Scions Xb and

similar boxy garbage out of the water. As it is we're doomed to 65mph
speed
limits with the dumb CAFE updates.

I had trouble with the visual at first - what size bolts? Like head bolts or
more like brake caliper bolts? Then the realization hit me. <8^P

I'm glad to serve up some imagery

The Prius and Echo are very different cars. The Echo is an economy car while

I thought early Priuses were based on Echo platform. No?
Anyhow, at least it's not as ugly as Echo.

 

[Body Roll]

I have a white Outback and live at a ski resort. Usually about 20 or so
white Outbacks with the same trimmings in every large parking lot I go to.
I think people in the same regions tend to buy the same colors.

I thought white cars were pretty stupid until I read some sound
deadener
failure reports at high temperatures. I have b-quiet deadener on the
outer door skins in a light colored car, so I don't care as much, but
people in the scorching heat of Arizona deserts probably would see
lower temperatures in white car (as opposed to dark colored cars). At
least I think that's the case with motorcycle helmets. Black helmet -
inexperienced rider. But white car in a ski resort??? That sounds a bit
tacky. Unless you occasionally take it where it's very hot.

The seat of pants eyeballing is unreliable though. Be that the
temerature in the greenhouse
or anything else. On to my favorite topic of aerodynamic efficiency
For example, you can't tell that Cayenne has HIGHER drag coefficient
(nevermind the larget frontal area) than Forester. It just looks
sleeker than the Forester's front. But Porsche claims .39 and Subaru
claims .34
Go figure. That turbo on Cayenne gets a workout at 100+ combatting the
drag :-D
But I somehow think that Porsche pulled .39 figure out of their
posterior. Either they or Subaru did.