beg4m3rcy703

do you guys see grey or silver when you see a c300 in palladium silver?

MASSC450

In the sun light...I see gold, and too much of it IMO.

Mike5215

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.

cenzo86

I have to agree with this. Palladium picks up greens and gold's in some light.

celmem

either. it's palladium

baybombers

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.

*Knowledge*

I'm still love my palladium. Chose it for the ability to hide dirt between washes but more importantly the way it photographs.

beg4m3rcy703

Good to know...u still didnt answer the question tho...

Mike5215

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?

*Knowledge*

When photographing it I see grey with ambient light and silver with artificial light. I got a gallery/thread here you can check out.

sean1.8t

Not usually a fan of silver as I feel it's a boring and stock tone. But Palladium isn't half bad to be honest. I'd rock it for sure

gfmohn

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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.

Mike5215

Three of my last four cars were black. Mercedes always look great in that color (when they're clean) but they're a lot of work. Plus two were S Class with what felt like acres of sheet metal to polish.

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.

MASSC450

For me it was the exact opposite. Under the florescent lights of the showroom floor, Palladium looked like an awesome shade of gray silver to me, as a matter of fact it was my first color choice (#2 was Iridium Silver) when shopping for my first Mercedes (2015 C300 Sport 4Matic), and I was having a hard time deciding between the two colors before placing my order.

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.

southwes

Beautiful images. Gorgeous color finish. My 350 Coupe is finished in Palladium Silver...