My New Car (warning more Porsche content)

[Bodhi]

I can assure after a day, you'd want rid in that colour - I speak from experience.

Lol. I have a friend who owns a 2008 Cayenne GTS in black, and he said with ceramic paint treatment, waxing and polishing, black is a PITA as he has to wash his car frequently and that colour absorbs the sun's heat. He was contemplating going with white on his next SUV.

 

[Seeker_UK]

Lol. I have a friend who owns a 2008 Cayenne GTS in black, and he said with ceramic paint treatment, waxing and polishing, black is a PITA as he has to wash his car frequently and that colour absorbs the sun's heat. He was contemplating going with white on his next SUV.

All colours show up muck. The only colour that seems to suffer less is silver.

 

[Bodhi]

All colours show up muck. The only colour that seems to suffer less is silver.

Dolomite Silver Metallic looks nice.

 

[gintonic]

Crayon is lovely. We tried to get a Crayon Macan few weeks ago, but we only managed Volcano Grey.

20240530_165857 by uh_simon, on Flickr

previous pork was some kind of grey - didn't show the dirt. Only washed when it went to the dealer.

20220113_152001 by uh_simon, on Flickr

 

[gintonic]

The only colour that seems to suffer less is silver.

I thought that, but this silver Cayman was the worst I had

20200220_165045 by uh_simon, on Flickr

 

[stevec67]

All colours show up muck. The only colour that seems to suffer less is silver.

stronger colours shine through IME. I had a Cav in a metallic burgundy that was great. It never looked dirty and after washing it just looked brighter. Similarly The Indestructible Mondeo was a dark green and looked fine when dirty, as did an Astra in a mid blue. I think metallics do better in this regard for the same reason.

 

[gintonic]

here is the white one, got grubby quickly, but the most exciting driving pork we've had

Untitled by uh_simon, on Flickr

 

[NeilR]

I've done some LCA calcs as part of my job - even helped write papers on it. The answer is "...it depends"- sometime BEVs win (e.g. smaller battery compacts in France, where the grid carbon intensity is consistently low) and other times the break even is surprisingly long. With the potential advent of HVO100 paraffinic diesel that will become available at increasing scale as we go through this decade, then, for real-world single-car households doing average mileage/year, a future diesel EU7 running on that fuel will be hard to beat on an LCA basis. Not a politically correct answer though.

burning stuff is never going to be the way out of the climate emergency, no matter how much the fossil fuel industry may want it to be so!

 

[Rana]

burning stuff is never going to be the way out of the climate emergency, no matter how much the fossil fuel industry may want it to be so!

It's multi-factor approach that will be needed with proper LCA accounting. Force-fitting of a single technology approach will just delay things, for all energy-using sectors, not only for transportation. The consequences otherwise are that there will be severe critical raw materials shortages that will hit in the mid 2030's, if not earlier.

 

[Bas V]

The consequences otherwise are that there will be severe critical raw materials shortages that will hit in the mid 2030's, if not earlier.

Shorteages; that's what they have been saying about oil lots of times... Let that be no excuse!