Chrome paint looks just as bad in real life...

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This turned up at the Paris show.

Electric SLS with 740hp and 1000 Newtons of twist. And you can actually buy one.... for half a million USD. :lol:

But really this is about how horrible chrome paint looks in real life is parallel to how terrible it looks in GT5. Good to know. đź‘Ť

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I think that looks awsome, but it is in a showroom under artificial light. Not sure if it would look so good driving down the road in the cold light of day tho.
 
Kinda odd. I like the color. They should have darkened the grill and put different color rims. Black chromish or anodize blue would look better. All for the show. Could you imagine how hot that body would get. Especially in in the desert where I live.
 
funniest thing is how it makes the wheels and tires look like plastic toys.
 
Hmm, for some reason I like that color. Of course....that color DOES make the whole car look like something straight out of the Hot Wheels universe. To really make it look better, change that grill to black and change the wheels as well from white, then we would have a winner.

That plastic toy look on the tires is courtesy of putting tire shine not just on the sidewalls, but the contact patch as well. You do that to any cars tires, and they will look plastic like a Tonka trucks lol.
 
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Chrome is pretty tacky for the most part on modern cars, I doubt I'll even like the blue chrome on the SLS even in better lightning conditions.
 
Doesn't stand out so badly in natural light. I kinda like it, but I imagine it'll look bizarre when stuck in city traffic behind a bunch of miserable grey and off white econoboxes.

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Here's another chrome car. This one's owned by a bloke in Queensland. Unfortunately it can not be driven on the road in Australia this color.

 
Chrome painters should learn from sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944). On the art of writing.

To begin with, let me plead that you have been told of one or two things which Style is not; which have little or nothing to do with Style, though sometimes vulgarly mistaken for it. Style, for example, is not—can never be—extraneous Ornament. You remember, may be, the Persian lover whom I quoted to you out of Newman: how to convey his passion he sought a professional letter-writer and purchased a vocabulary charged with ornament, wherewith to attract the fair one as with a basket of jewels. Well, in this extraneous, professional, purchased ornamentation, you have something which Style is not: and if you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: ‘Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it—whole-heartedly—and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.’
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"Style is not - can never be - extraneous Ornament."

"Whenever you feel an impulse to paint a car in chrome, obey it—whole-heartedly—than repaint it again before taking your car to the track. Murder your darlings."
 
You know who else drives a shiny car? BIEBER! :yuck: God forbid there's a time machine. Otherwise, I'll supply my near-to-neighbours with better contraceptives, to prevent Justin's birth...
 
Chrome paint is a nightmare. I'm glad it's illegal to drive cars that wear such colours on the road in my country. It's enough if I see the riced gold chrome cars on GT5 :crazy:

Dr_Watson
funniest thing is how it makes the wheels and tires look like plastic toys.
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KiroKai
Chrome paint is a nightmare. I'm glad it's illegal to drive cars that wear such colours on the road in my country. It's enough if I see the riced gold chrome cars on GT5 :crazy:
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I wish I knew which country this is. The threat of seeing a Fisker Karma isn't a threat, unless it's Justin Bieber's... So, moving away from Canada, to KiroKai land seems nice...
 
Dr_Watson
This turned up at the Paris show.

Electric SLS with 740hp and 1000 Newtons of twist. And you can actually buy one.... for half a million USD. :lol:

But really this is about how horrible chrome paint looks in real life is parallel to how terrible it looks in GT5. Good to know. đź‘Ť
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... I have nothing to say. The paintjob on that SLS makes all chrome paints look good in GT5.
 
88FoxBodyFan
How about a pure copper sheet/ matt black painted carbon fiber two tone?

Peugeot Onyx Concept
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/5282/Peugeot-Onyx-Concept.html
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It's funny how they pay their designers to explore 1980's - 1990's science fiction design. Just because some old sci-fi illustrator imagined that this is what we will be driving in the year 2015 doesn't mean that it's a good idea to pursue those ideals today. The GT by Citroën cockpit suffers from the same syndrome. Yes, it was cool when I was 8 years old back in 1994, but as an adult in 2012 I would rather drive a Fiat Punto than anything that looks like this. Well spent time, effort and money, Peugeot. Why bother developing something that would be useful for the cars you're actually making?
 

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