Palladium Silver ...?!
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I love the color. It's two different shades depending on the lighting and I like them both. It's also really good at hiding dirt. Carbon Fiber bits look nice on it. Way back when I had a Pewter S Class that was really close to Palladium. Great looking car.
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I have it on my E. I see more gray than silver. I agree in some light it picks up a little gold, too. I personally really like the color and the way it seems to never look the same twice.
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The thing about color is that it's entirely a personal choice. I could run down a list of every other color and why I dislike it, but that would simply insult the judgment of the people who do like it. What's the point?
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When photographing it I see grey with ambient light and silver with artificial light. I got a gallery/thread here you can check out.
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Last edited by gfmohn; May 5, 2017 at 09:32 PM. Reason: I have iridium silver, not palladium
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I personally hate the color of gold...reminds me of cars from long ago. But if I had a choice between palladium or black, I'd pick palladium because black is too difficult to keep clean, and black shows swirl marks.
I even hate the color gold in jewelry...I wear a platinum wedding band myself.
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Originally Posted by MASSC450
Agreed.
I personally hate the color of gold...reminds me of cars from long ago. But if I had a choice between palladium or black, I'd pick palladium because black is too difficult to keep clean, and black shows swirl marks.
I even hate the color gold in jewelry...I wear a platinum wedding band myself.
I personally hate the color of gold...reminds me of cars from long ago. But if I had a choice between palladium or black, I'd pick palladium because black is too difficult to keep clean, and black shows swirl marks.
I even hate the color gold in jewelry...I wear a platinum wedding band myself.
Gold is a terrible color. Car salesmen have a name for it: "No Sale Gold". There is a tiny fraction of the buying public that love it and based on the license plate frames I see they all attended either Bethune or FSU.
There's definitely a goldish undertone in Palladium that becomes prominent under florescent lights but in most driving conditions it reads more gray than anything else.
The only downside is when I call in a restaurant for curbside pickup and they ask what color my car is. No idea how to accurately describe it. Not really silver, not really gold, not really gray but all three.
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I then asked the salesperson I was dealing with if they had examples of the two colors outside in the lot since it was a nice sunny day, and she "yes, lets go take a look". When I saw the Palladium color outside in the sun I said to myself "Yikes" because all I saw was gold compared to the Iridium colored car next to it.
