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they ran out of black tire color at toyo!
…first comment!
Actually I think it looks pretty cool.
No. Actually it doesn’t. It looks retireded.
you dont like white???
It wouldn’t be long before I’d tire of that.
If you’re speaking of the gray bumper cover on the silver body, take a look at any yellow Cobalt. Their plastic bits on the rear bumper are always a shade different from the paint job, even when new.
Or is it the tires & wheels that offend here?
Actually, I own a yellow Cobalt and have not noticed this condition, nor do I notice it here. The “colour variation” in this pic is merely a creation of light reflecting from the panels at different angles… Perhaps even the material under the paint (metal or plastic) has something to do with the way the light reflects off them as well. I have noticed it on other cars on our lot, but then you move closer or change your point of view to one side or the other and magically, the panel colours match again.
And yes, it was definitely the tires that offend the eyes…
I don’t doubt what gslippy saw at all:
On trips to the Pac NW, we had Cobalts each time. Our bumper (front and rear) colors didn’t match the car in either the black granite or summit white offerings. I know a little about light reflection and refraction through media, too: that wasn’t the issue.
Maybe Fialser is utilizing “Mood Ring” color-change technology!
If that’s the case, for an unfortunate owner “feeling” grey is probably quite appropriate.
This is actually the color of natural rubber.
I have no idea what all the compounds are that are used in today’s ‘rubber’ tires, but in the old days, carbon-black was added to the natural rubber (to get some desired property) and in the process the tires became black.
I have seen photos of olde-tyme cars, in B&W pics where the tire seems not to be black, but probably something more like the white-grey colour we see here.
Quite right. I had the same thought. Maybe these will be marketed as “natural” rubber tires.
BTW, I have the sneaking suspicion that they will look shabby after being driven a little be and getting scuffed and dirty and aged (I’m also wondering if they have the ozone and UV-light degredation thing licked with the white tires … perhaps that is what the carbon black was for … longevity.)
Yep, it does have to do with degradation:
http://www.properautocare.com/whyaretirbla.html
Natural rubber is yellowy looking. Any old timer, who owned a bike with natural rubber sidewalls would remember. They dry rotted super fast.
Every once in a while you see manufacturer’s experiment with colored bike tires…sometimes to match the bike color.
Maybe this is what the glowing tires look like when they are turned off.
Take a look at the cars at a vintage (pre-WWI) car show – a lot of the tyres there are white. Which was considered quite normal back then.
Is it proper to wear white tires after labor day?
Only if you’re a virgin.
I thought colored tires had been around for a long time.
On a slightly different note, I heard that some manufacturers had actually made tires that smelt of Lavender and Rosemary when you do a burnout – is this true, or is it an April fools joke?!
It was true, Kumho produced the tires
I think they look kind of cool, and they work pretty well with the uber-stylish 500. I would also worry about what happens when they get dirty from the road. I’ve seen a Mazda RX-8 around here a couple times that has sort of metallic gunmetal grey tires, or maybe they were grey like this before they got dirty, they look pretty cool on the car.
Wasn’t it BFGoodrich who was going to sell colored tires a few years back? Whatever happened to the idea? An attack of good taste?
Didn’t some pissy L.A. politician think they would encourage gang territorial marking (tagging) by burn-outs?
That’s what Sergio Marchionne has up his sleeve, colour coded tires.
Now it all makes sense.
Ha! I remember seeing those tires on another vehicle.
1906 National Model E-7 at the 2009 Meadow Brook Concours.
http://www.conceptcarz.com/view/photo/326503,15992/1906-National-Model-E-7_photo.aspx
I remember seen tires colored that even made smoke on blue or purple hue in a “Pimp My Ride” or “West Coast Customs” show a few months ago.
The tires I think are no big deal, if you get tired of them just change the tires… I would be more worried for the degradation of color on the neoprene bumper, it may become brownish and look terrible.
The wheels could be improved with a set of OZ WRC Superleggera rims, on white of course. ;-P
Best regards
Just think, on freshly paved roads the tiremarks will look even more stunning.