It’s my understanding that custom paint jobs and aftermarket accessorizing is very popular in a few small sub-cultures and shunned everywhere else. Sure, you can get a car and turn it into a souped-up lowrider with a fancy racing stripe and neato painted flames, but you’re only going to get a reasonable price for it in the 'hood. Self-respecting middle class white collar workers won’t go near it even with a ten-foot pole. They want an ordinary factory-spec American, Japanese, or German car that looks normal.
I think it’s more that nobody really wants a boring looking car, but hardly anyone agrees on what’s interesting and what’s tacky. With a boring generally non-offensive car, you have a much bigger pool of people to (grudgingly) buy the thing.
Is it two-toned paint or are the lower claddings a different color like this. There are a lot of vehicles with colored claddings, not so many with two-toned paint jobs.
I disagree. I don’t like dark interiors because they’re even hotter in the summer. The last time I was looking at cars, there were two seat color choices, tan or black. The big ‘but’ was that you only got one interior choice with most of the exterior colors. I liked the blue but I didn’t want a black interior. If tan was an option, I would’ve bought the blue one in a second. I ruled out blue exterior based solely upon the undesirable interior color.
Its paint. Its on my car. And its two different colors. Do we really need to pick nits?
Sorry, just curious because I’ve never seen two tone factory paint on a Subaru.
My wife had a 1997 Outback wagon (very similar to this picture). The gray at the bottom of the front quarter panels and doors was definitely paint, not cladding.
You can see that the bumpers were purely gray, but, from the front of the front wheel well, to the back of the rear wheel well, the gray was paint (complete with a gray-and-body-color pinstripe).
Some cars come with such wide racing stripes that they might as well be considered two-tone.
Try to find a Toyota Land Cruiser that isn’t two-toned these days.
Here: 2025 Toyota Land Cruiser | Toyota.com
You don’t really see too many of those on the streets because, you know, $80k Toyota.
I assume you’re thinking of the FJ Cruiser which is sort of a retro take on the old 70’s Land Cruisers. The roofs are always white and the pseudo-cladding at the bottom is always black, so except for the white and black ones, they’re three-toned!