I hate white cars but love the blizzard pearl but ultimately opted against it for a few reasons: -if you ever need a paint job it's going to cost mire AND the color is ridiculously hard to match. -where I live this color is very popular and I like to stand out a bit -the dealer actually told me that Toyota has had safety issues w/ their silver and white in terms of accidents, as drivers report difficult seeing cars that are these colors...strange.
Too bad Toyota dropped the Silver Pine Metallic paint scheme when they introduced the Prius 3G. I really like the look on my 2G. Maybe they will re-introduce it on later models, when I'm ready to trade.
Spinn, I'm sure you were told that by the dealer because I've heard all sorts of goofy things come out of my salesmen's mouths. Having said that, it doesn't make sense -- especially since they're the two most popular colors out there right now. In fact, I believe that darker cars are traditionally more difficult to see, especially at night time. It seems to me the only time a light colored car would be more difficult would be in fog or snow.
In a poll taken in May 2009 in this forum, 110 people ranked color preferences as follows: Most Votes: Blue Ribbon Metallic, 27 votes 2nd: Blizzard Pearl, 23 votes 3rd: Classic Silver Metallic, 19 votes 4th: Barcelona Red Metallic, 15 votes 5th: Winter Gray Metallic, 13 votes 6th: Black, 7 votes 7th: Sandy Beach Metallic, 6 votes Jim
Well, we didn't want a "white" car, there are sooo many on the road already around here. But with no Silver Pine Mica anymore and although the red is really groovy, the darker colors seem harder to keep clean. The Blizz has a deep sheen that we've grown to love.
Re: Black paint used on Model Ts. Henry Ford preferred black paint at the time because it dried faster than other colors, so it kept the assembly line moving right along. Of course he famously said you can have a car any color you want as long as it's black, but that was the reason. I read this in Douglas Brinkley's Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress.
