Thanks again Bonlaw, that really helps! All three colors I'm interested in are there, Silver Metallic, Midnight Silver Metallic, and likely the discontinued Grey Metallic which you're calling dolphin grey.
Thanks much for the additional pictures, Jules! Model S really does look sharp in that color. It really brings out the lines and shapes of the car well. Can you confirm it's the color called Silver Metallic? (I'm 99.99% sure it is; just want to check.)
Thanks much Boourns, that's really helpful. The Midnight Silver is definitely a dark grey, and darker than the discontinued Grey Metallic, but I also like it. It's definitely a grey and not black, at least in those pictures. Very low key, which is what I like. Wow, it's like a very sharp dark grey suit!
Thanks for sharing your pics because I wanted to see the silver with a facelift. I got that silver for similar reasons -- stays looking clean for a long time.
Agreed. I might have gotten Gray Metallic if it was available to order November 2015. I wouldn't have been unhappy with any of the colors though.
Thanks much. That's a really useful posting, showing the Dolphin Grey and Steel Grey colors side by side. I'm assuming those are two colors no longer available, and that they're probably not the same as the also discontinued Grey Metallic. Does any of that sound right?
The new front fascia does look good in the silver. I'm definitely leaning towards the silver mainly because it may keep the car cooler than the darker colors. I still like the various grey colors a little better. But the silver shows off the cars lines a bit better than the darker colors.
Thanks much. That's a really useful posting, showing the Dolphin Grey and Steel Grey colors side by side. I'm assuming those are two colors no longer available, and that they're probably not the same as the also discontinued Grey Metallic. Does any of that sound right?
They're all nice in their own way, and I'd be very happy with any of the three. But they're no longer available.
Hi folks, I recently reserved a Model 3, and am thinking about getting a Model S to bridge the gap and start doing some autopilot road trips for a couple years. I like silver as an exterior color, but am a bit confused about the current color. What is the silver currently coming out of the factory? Is it different from the older silver? (I could actually go over the the factory to look too. Silver seems so rare today that I'm not sure the dealers have many.
Older Model S had a silver that's bright silver, maybe even lighter than the chrome trim. Is the current silver dark, like pewter grey? By pure coincidence I saw a Model S driving on my street today, and it was quite dark like pewter, but not the very dark, almost black current color which I think is called Midnight Silver Metallic. The latter is almost a metallic black, but is a little lighter than the Obsidian Black Metallic. (I would definitely call Midnight Silver Metallic a lot closer to black than silver.)
TBH I'm looking for a color that's very low key, almost the color of slightly faded asphalt, and the grey I saw today, while metallic, seemed to be almost exactly that. It's pretty much exactly what I'm looking for, but I want to know what Tesla calls it. It seemed quite a bit darker than the current Silver Metallic, at least how the latter shows up on the Model S configurator.
BTW I plan to get the Model 3 in the silver color (the middle car in the reveal), unless something else looks better when they finally go into production. The silver really highlighted the lines well, and is pretty cool in a good way.
Definitely have seen the silver Model 3. It seems to be the same color as the middle Model 3 during the unveiling. Like Model 3 a lot in silver! Does the Model 3 silver seem slightly darker than Model S silver?
The colors are definitely confusing. The only ones I'm sure about now are the Silver (which is basically an original color), and the Midnight Silver, which is new. I think there was a Grey Metallic that seems very similar to the Dolphin Grey. Pretty sure the former was an official color name. TBH, it's all a bit confusing. Seems like there may have been at least 3 different grey colors, 4 if you count Midnight Silver, which looks like a very dark grey to me. Once upon a time there was also a non-metallic battleship grey similar to some Audis. No idea what its color name was.
Thanks Jules. The Silver is indeed very nice. It's the color I'm most likely getting too. Glad to hear you also found the Midnight Silver very dark.
Still satisfied with it? and how does it look after a few weeks (and maybe som rain and dirt)? You also refer to some addtional pictures, I cannot find them... Could you upload them again, please, or point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance!
The car on these pictures look fantastic, Julesp313.
