gaspowered

I was planning on reserving a Flint Mica / Black GS350 from my local dealer. He informed me today that the Flint Mica is going to be retired and replaced by smokey granite. He says the granite is a little darker than Flint Mica. Does anyone know how different these two colors are? He said the current IS line utilizes the smokey granite but I can not find one at any of the DFW dealers to look at.

Gojirra99

Yes, my impression is that the smoky granite is a little darker than the flint mica too. Other than that, it's just a slightly different shade of dark grey. I think it will look very good on the GS.

Nauticalx

Its good to get something new and different IMO, if I'm not mistaken flint has been in use for quite some time now.

e-man

I believe flint mica was used on the RX330 as well as the 06 GS's. The new ES comes in smokey granite. I've looked at both. The flint mica is more of a purple or blue gray and the smokey granite is more of a charcoal gray. That's the best way I can describe it. I'll try to post up some pix in a minute. Let me do some searching.

EDIT -- okay, I found some pix, but I honestly cannot tell the difference between the two. Here you go.

e-man

3GS in flint mica:

e-man

ES350 in smokey granite:

carminesc

the flint mica has green specs in it that cause it too appear a little lighter as well. it's a very cool color, but i kind of prefer a darker charcoal.

e-man

Here's a better picture of flint mica on the 3GS:

GS450h FTL

under certain lighting my flint mica has a bluish tint to it

flipside909

Flint Mica and Smokey Granite are very close in color. The Flint has more bias towards blue/green though. One of my friends has a Smokey Granite IS and a Flint Mica RX. I will have to take pics of them side by side under the same lighting. To the naked eye, the colors are very close.

INHOCJP

Wow, both are beautiful colors...makes me regret choosing black

*wishlist*

i saw a flint mica gs300 drive into the parking building and then then 2 cars later another gs drove in that i thought was flint mica until i saw that the back said gs350. honestly couldn't tell as it passed by. but if i were to say the difference is that smokey granite is a little darker.

RedRider

Flipside is right. The Smokey Granite and the Flint Mica are pretty close. I saw a Smokey Granite GS 350 up close today and to be honest, I didn't see much difference between it and Flint Mica. Oddly enough, the color that impressed me was the Verdigris Mica. I drove a GS350 in that color this afternoon and I think it is really sharp. It is a dark metalic green but viewed in sunlight from different angles, it seems to change shades kind of like the Glacier Frost color.