e60 Silver Gray color?

Why is the Silver Gray color silver in some pics and blue in others. I dont know if you guys have seen the E60 with the ACS body kit and 20" rims, but I loved that color. ACS says it is Silver Gray but I went to the dealer and Silver Gray does NOT look that blue. Anyone know?

Can you post the picture to see the color, and if the picture was taken inside without a flash and only with artificial light: Fluorescent light, etc. 80% of the time the source light will change the color of the original object. wp4ldu

Originally Posted by jyeh74

Why is the Silver Gray color silver in some pics and blue in others. I dont know if you guys have seen the E60 with the ACS body kit and 20" rims, but I loved that color. ACS says it is Silver Gray but I went to the dealer and Silver Gray does NOT look that blue. Anyone know?

I am not a fan of the E60 but I did see one in Silver/Gray at the dealer (inside) and the car looked pretty good. The color was actually outstanding and does not look blue.

Originally Posted by jyeh74

Why is the Silver Gray color silver in some pics and blue in others. I dont know if you guys have seen the E60 with the ACS body kit and 20" rims, but I loved that color. ACS says it is Silver Gray but I went to the dealer and Silver Gray does NOT look that blue. Anyone know?

My e60 is Titanium Grey and occasionally looks blue in the right light, you sure it was Silver grey??

i know what picture u're talking about. that threw me off too. its just some blue lighting. siver grey is NOT blue.

titanium silver has a hint of blue, and will look blue when it reflects some blue from the sky.

u gotta silver grey in person before you comit to it. all the press photos are in silver grey, but they look better in the pics than in person. it looks really good with light, nice contrast between light/dark. but in the shadows, it looks a bit dull.

I have a silver-gray 330i; if it has any undertones at all they are certainly blue. Evening hours the car looks very blue, only true bright sunlight shows the car's true color. I love it. I'd rather have blue undertone than purple or champagne. The silver-gray on bmwusa is way to dark, it's more halfway between the Steel and TiAG.

The colors on the BMWUSA website are so useless, they don't even allow u to compare the differences in color shades. They make the Silver Grey look darker than the Titanium Grey, which is flat out a dull grey color, The Silver Grey has more shimmer to it and is lighter in person.

I agree that the colors on the website are nearly worthless. I would have liked more choices as far as a color that actually had some color in it. It seems most of them could be viewed on a black and white TV without losing anything. I did learn one thing. The guys were right about silver hiding dirt. This is a pretty nice feature because I hate washing cars and I cant always talk my hubby into it.

It does have a touch of blue in it. I also agree that it does look like a dull gray when overcast but on bright sunny days

Originally Posted by mspeed76

i know what picture u're talking about. that threw me off too. its just some blue lighting. siver grey is NOT blue.

titanium silver has a hint of blue, and will look blue when it reflects some blue from the sky.

u gotta silver grey in person before you comit to it. all the press photos are in silver grey, but they look better in the pics than in person. it looks really good with light, nice contrast between light/dark. but in the shadows, it looks a bit dull.

Think you got something wrong...titanium silver has NO blue what so ever, it is the most straight up silver that BMW offers.

Titanium Grey under certain lighting has a greenish effect, which is but in the brochures, etc, it looks great. Silver Grey (see sig) doesn't have such a weird effect under different lighting.

Originally Posted by WP4LDU

Can you post the picture to see the color, and if the picture was taken inside without a flash and only with artificial light: Fluorescent light, etc. 80% of the time the source light will change the color of the original object. wp4ldu

Reminds me of steel grey BLUEISH under some lights...PICTORIALS

I'm sure everyone knows what it looks like but here's the E60 in TiAg.

This is not all but about half of the BMW colors, I think it covers the 5 series color spectrum.

Originally Posted by jyeh74

Why is the Silver Gray color silver in some pics and blue in others. I dont know if you guys have seen the E60 with the ACS body kit and 20" rims, but I loved that color. ACS says it is Silver Gray but I went to the dealer and Silver Gray does NOT look that blue. Anyone know?

I'm looking at it every day for the past 3 months. No shade of blue whatsoever! Still, silver gray - best color!

Originally Posted by Ovidiu

I'm looking at it every day for the past 3 months. No shade of blue whatsoever! Still, silver gray - best color!

I am coming closer and closer and closer to Silver Gray as the color of choice

Though of the minute: is it a bit darker than the Patriot helmets?

/Franco

Silver Gray can certainly look blue-ish in certain lighting. Just check out my sig.

what year is silver gray available on the m3? Is the e60 silver gray and the m3 silver gray identical? It seems like the e60's silver gray is much darker in person than the m3's silver gray.

Originally Posted by jyeh74

what year is silver gray available on the m3? Is the e60 silver gray and the m3 silver gray identical? It seems like the e60's silver gray is much darker in person than the m3's silver gray.

Silver Gray was introduced to E46 platform in March of 2003. And yes, it should be the same color across all the platforms.

UCBsupafly, do you have any other pictures of your car? I want to view the different angles, etc....

Sorry I don't have any better pictures right now. My car is currently under going some changes. I will take better pictures when it's complete.

These were taken on a sunny day.







You can sort of see the car in the background in this one.