Gray Prius???

Hint... if it's an '06, and you get up close (at a stoplight for instance), look for a backup camera... chances are it would have one since they're available with some of the low-end packages.

There's is a Magnetic gray that's available in a few months, but maybe it's an '05 Millenium Silver? I'm sure dealers had plenty of '05's in stock to get rid of..

 

Tideland Pearl -- '04 or '05 can look gray in the right light. Did it have a slight greenish cast to it?

 

it's definitely Tideland Pearl, sometimes you cannot see any green in it

 

Too bad they discontinued it. I like its complexities.

 

The Tideland Pearl is the Chameleon of Prii. Dave has one and there are a few more that I see from day to day and they are constantly changing, depending on the light. The green comes and goes. It is a great color.

 

Oftentimes you cannot see any hint of green in the Tideland Pearl; every time I've seen one except for once, it has looked purely greyish. Gorgeous color, so different. It would've been my #1 color choice for a 2006 if they hadn't discontinued it. Instead they replace it with Silver Pine Mica aka Pistachio, bleh.<_<

 

No big deal, but Tideland's "replacement" is actually Magnetic Grey, available in May as noted above. It's darker than Tideland, minus the green pigment.

I suspect Silver Pine will prove to be the replacement for Driftwood, which will probably be dropped for '07.

 

An everlasting mystery.

 

we were driving our new prius in richmond, ca today (costco run)

we saw what i swear is a grey prius. it was a little dirty and my wife thought maybe it was a black one that just needed washing. but then we happened to see a dirty black prius and it was definitely different.

i guess i've never seen the tideland color except in pictures, but this thing really did not seem to have even the slightest hint of green. it didnt have the stock wheels, so i guess there's some chance this guy had it painted.

weird.

 

i'm not... that will make my Prius a classic that much sooner!!

and yes i have to agree that it looks gray most of the time. i'm fairly sure i live near the place the color was named for.

if you have ever seen a foggy Washington day, you will realize that the color name is right on. Grays Harbor County, Washington fog is nearly an identical match. from a distance, it looks like smoke. (the hint of green is the ever-present Fir tree in the background ) as you get closer, the color changes... just like my Prius

 

Well, if you're ever driving through Wallingford (urban neighborhood within Seattle city limits), and you see a house with one '05 Tideland Pearl Prius parked next to an '06 Silver Pine Mica Prius -- that's us.

I've had a lot of time to compare the two, and while I no longer dislike the Silver Pine, I'm very happy I stuck out the 8 months to get the Tideland Pearl. It's as Dave and others have said -- the perfect chameleon for the ever-changing Washington weather.

 

CONGRATS Jeff on the new addition!!

get any cool options for it?

 

I have a great eye for color, and I SWEAR my Tideland sometimes has a bluish cast as well as green. Anyone else see this?

Even though Bend is in the PNW, we still see the sun sometimes

 

You probably have seen one on a sunny day when the green comes out. It's a great color and truely looks like a different car under different cloud covers. On overcast days it just looks dark gray to me. I followed one yesterday during a dark cloud cover and I swear it was charcoal gray. I doubt that the one you saw had been repainted.