Alright, It's Time to Paint the A-Pillars Body Color
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Alright, It's Time to Paint the A-Pillars Body Color
This "roof in space" look as a result of blacked out A-pillars is not cutting it anymore. Isn't this Styling 101, where you are suppose to carry the lines of the car up and over the roof to the back of the car? I don't see the Italians doing this blacked out A-pillar theme on their supercars. There must be a reason for that (such as, it doesn't work).
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Torquetube, thank you for the trip down memory lane. Unfortunately, there isn't a car there that isn't at least a decade old. GM falls into the same trap. The industry moves ahead, and there is GM still chroming wheels, and blacking out A-pillars. It just makes their cars looked dated.
There isn't a Ferrari made with a blacked out A-pillar anymore, and Lamborghini's are all body colored except on the Spyders.
Let me show you some current models.
Michael
There isn't a Ferrari made with a blacked out A-pillar anymore, and Lamborghini's are all body colored except on the Spyders.
Let me show you some current models.
Michael
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I for one, never gave this issue much thought until it was brought up here. In looking at the handful of examples, I would vote for the body color pillars. However, if someone drops an Enzo in my driveway, painting the pillars body color won't happen.
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Torquetube, thank you for the trip down memory lane. Unfortunately, there isn't a car there that isn't at least a decade old. GM falls into the same trap. The industry moves ahead, and there is GM still chroming wheels, and blacking out A-pillars. It just makes their cars looked dated.
Now they're just "dated," presumably because the last super Ferrari to offer them was the 599 ... last produced way back in the summer of 2012.
There's an argument to be made for body-colored A-pillars, but this isn't it.
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In that lies the problem, especially for those who own both a transparent top and one body colored too.
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This is quite a retreat from your original assertions that anybody familiar with "Styling 101" knows A-pillars must be body-colored, and that Italians don't build supercars with black ones because it's a styling feature that "doesn't work."
Now they're just "dated," presumably because the last super Ferrari to offer them was the 599 ... last produced way back in the summer of 2012.
There's an argument to be made for body-colored A-pillars, but this isn't it.
Now they're just "dated," presumably because the last super Ferrari to offer them was the 599 ... last produced way back in the summer of 2012.
There's an argument to be made for body-colored A-pillars, but this isn't it.
Michael
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