I am on my way to college out of town and I am in the market for a new car. I am a college student who will commute and I will need a car that:

1. Hides water spots since it will be parked on the streets somewhere by the sprinklers and get rain on.
2. Hide scratches and light dings
3. Hide swirls since I will run it through the machine once a month
4. Hide rock chips...

This comes down to the two colors. Silver and white. Do these colors do the same job as far as hiding swirl, scratches and water spots? I prefer silver more since white is too bright. However, I will get either one if one can hide more of the imperfections listed above. I will need your help to decide since I never own any of these colors. I currently own a black 2000 GS and I pretty much babied it and my time has come to an end driving in my black beauty... thanks

 

from some1 with a white car ... and my friend has a silver car ... i seem to have to do a lot more maintenance than he does

 

Get a white car. Everyone has silver and it is boring boring boring. White cars stand out more and they hide just as much dirt IMO as silver cars. I went from black to white and I will never go back to black again. I can skip washing my car for days and weeks at a time and it still looks great.

 

yeah...white is the way to go.

my silver miata showed water spots like NO OTHER.

 

get WHITE one !!!

 

White >> Silver.

Silver is too common and dull. Even a metallic Silver is lack-luster.

A metallic White is pearlescent and glimmering. WHITE is HOT!!!

 

Silver is absolutely the worst color on a car

 

White
However, it shows dirt just as bad as black does....so it would need some regular washings.

 

White bro. I would trade mine in a heartbeat.
Silver is frickin hard when picking body kits.

 

get grey color. silver and white are absolutely boring.

 

Given the choice of the white or silver, I agree with white, and white is much easier to match than silver when repainting or doing bodywork.......but white tends to show stains. Beige or tan are probably the best colors for hiding dirt and dust.

I highly recommend a product called SCRATCH-OUT, Comes in a small yellow bottle. It is excellent for taking out surface scratches, stains, and other paint imperfections. I not only use it myself but often give it to people who get new cars as a gift. Wal-Mart has it at a good price....but a few other places carry it.

http://www.kitwax.com/html/kitProducts.htm

 

I vote for white too, silver is way too common, to the point that I find almost ALL silver cars boring to look at ...

 

Go for silver. It hides dirt the best. With white color, you will eventually get alot of those tiny spec of orange. If you plan on washing the car every couple of weeks, then it should be no problem.

 

If the right kind of paint then silver, but otherwise it tends to dull and fade over time.

 

Not with modern clearcoats...if applied correctly. Silver, decades ago, like some reds, used to be a notorious fade-em-out color after a couple of years, because, if you didn't keep it religiously waxed, the microscopic iron particles in the paint that helped give it its color were exposed to oxygen in the air that dulled it and caused oxidation, but modern clearcoats generally prevent that by providing one or more layers of clear insulation. .