Color

[The Fed]

Is Limestone Gray close to a traditional silver?

 

[PRND[S]]

Limestone Gray is very sensitive to light and can change dramatically depending on time of day and angle. It can look gray, but I have never felt it looked like traditional silver.

Lots of examples: http://www.golfmk7.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5923

 

[The Fed]

Limestone Gray is very sensitive to light and can change dramatically depending on time of day and angle. It can look gray, but I have never felt it looked like traditional silver.

Lots of examples: http://www.golfmk7.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5923

Thanks for the link. Is it a metallic or a pearl?

 

[PRND[S]]

Metallic.

 

[jtbazz1]

Is Limestone Gray close to a traditional silver?

Here is mine and its a very accurate portrayal of the color in 2 different lights.

http://s1065.photobucket.com/user/jtbazz/library/

 

[PRND[S]]

Here are two more pictures of my car. They were processed with a custom X-Rite ColorChecker profile and whitebalance created at the time the pictures were taken, so the colors are accurate when viewed on a calibrated monitor.

You can see that there is a dramatic tone shift depending on the light incidence.

 

[TheSwede]

Limestone Grey is a very odd colour. I wasn’t aware of the fact that it slightly changes in tone since I ordered the car without seeing it in real. This was a positive surprise for me, really like it!

Also it’s a sleeper colour. In my country I have seen just one more R in LSG and zero GTI:s, you can say it’s rather rare.

On this forum LSG is increasing as colour choice.

/Peter

 

[The Fed]

Thanks for all of your replies.

 

[lb1]

I was on the fence for the longest time on the LSG because of the hint of brown / brass that's in the color in full sun and because I owned a Carbon Gray Metallic MK6 GTI and really loved that color. In fact, I was going to go with the Reflex Silver if it had been available in the US because it's also easier to maintain.

I went with LSG, and retrospectively I am very happy with the color. It looks different in every light and looks beautiful.

 

[vegasgolds]

soon but not soon enough to be my color as well.

Is this color similar to the nissan color? ... I hope this one is better.

 

[CKGOLFMK7]

I was contemplating many colors, originally I though LSG was the way to go, next I thought Oryx White, then once the pre-orders started rolling in I changed to Lapiz Blue. But in the end I had a few choices, and went with LSG, and I'm absolutely happy that I did. The truth is, this car looks great in many colors, but I think LSG does it the most justice. It just goes so well with the subtle aesthetic parts on the R, the "brushed" front lip, the rear lip/diffuser, the stainless Cadiz wheels with black accents etc. LSG allows those features to show up, and come out nicely.

IMHO, the LSG makes the R look like a very "sophisticated" car...