I like it. If it had been one of the stock colors then I might have chosen a purple shade over orange.
A much darker purple color might have been nice. I like the orange too. Finally saw the Lightening green with CF exterior package at the Model X event and that looks great as well. It's really tough to go wrong with the Roadster but the lavender car above it trying.
Here's a custom colour that’s been hard to photograph. It’s a metallic blue-purple that changes with angle and light falling on it. And looks very different between pics on my laptop screen and a desktop flat screen. And on a dull day it just looks like a flat blue. After a load of snow last week, I was hoping to capture some shots on a crisp sunny morning - I believe it would stunning, but alas the snow's melted and the sun didn't come out ... For time being here's some snaps taken a few weeks ago.
Is that your Roadster? That's beautiful! That and the custom Red for the CEO of Toyota are probably my favorite.
@PV4EV: love the color. It reminds me of the handsomest paint I've ever seen in person, a "bottle green" 911, a dark, rich green that showed hints of cobalt blue as the light shifted. Still my ideal for a car, but yours looks like it might run a close second.
Thanks to all for the kind compliments ! I wanted a purpley blue that was in between the two standard blues that Tesla offer. One of my other cars is an Alfa Romeo, and on a service visit to the dealer in 2009 I noticed they had an Alfa Mito in a stunning metallic blue, the likes of which I had not seen before. Apparently it was chosen for the public debut of the car, and on the intial sales of the car in Europe. A quick bit of investigating revealed the paint codes needed for Tesla to paint the car as a custom colour. Googling "Alfa mito blu tornado" should reveal a variety of photos all showing how difficult it is to capture what the eye sees ! (Although google.com might have different cached pics to google.co.uk… ) At the risk of not having a unique Model S in the same unique colour as my Roadster, the colour is Alfa Paint code 468B, or Dupont X8105.
I've been called an Alien many times … mainly by the US immigration authorities when I was going through an H1b visa application, and the O-1 visa for "Aliens with an extraordinary ability" (despite all my other defects !!!). I joked with them that it was my Granddad that crash landed at Roswell ... so I had a right of entry, but they didn’t geddit ..
I'm not usually a big fan of 'Green' anything, BUT ... I too once saw a Porsche in a stunning glassy emerald green and it was highly appealing. I havent yet found any car pics to illustrate how stunning it looked...
Thanks for sharing. I bet the Model S looks good in that too. I'll probably stick to the Signature Red though.
I haven't seen Signature Red up close, but it certainly looks very appealing. Is it a metallic paint close up ? or does it have some sort of deep lacquer ?
It does look good and as W.Petefish said, metallic looking. I think a red color in the same effect you had done would look great too. I think having them do custom paint adds about $6,000 to the price or so but does make a unique car.