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Your pictures of your hypersonic grey cars confirm my choice of building one in that color. It was built a couple of days ago but I am not able to do the museum delivery until later next month. It's going to be a long few weeks knowing it is sitting in Bowling Green waiting for me. Until then, thanks for all the pictures and confirming my choice.
Your pictures of your hypersonic grey pictures confirm my choice of building one in that color. It was built a couple of days ago but I am not able to do the museum delivery until later next month. It's going to be a long few weeks know it is sitting in Bowling Green waiting for me. Until then, thanks for all the pictures and confirming my choice.
Yes, pictures do not show how nice the metallic gray looks in person.
Thanks for the added interior pics. I really like that combo, these are the best pictures I've seen of the interior. Fearful of the visualizer after some comments I've seen, but in this case it looks pretty close to real life.
I still have the Elkhart Blue (with 2 tone grey) and the Red Mist in the mix. Problem with the Red Mist is I can't come up with an interior that I like in it.
Yeah, I think only black would look good. Personally, do not like the light brown.
The first Hypersonic Gray Metallic I saw in person was my own when it was delivered a couple of weeks ago.
For those of you considering this choice but haven't had a chance to see it up close, here are my impressions (keeping in mind that there's a certain amount of subjectivity when it comes to perceiving color): the gray is darker than I anticipated from photos and videos posted; it shows off the car's lines amazingly well; there's green in there, but it's very subtle and I also see about two bits of blue for every five of green; there is a lot going on with shadows and the nuances of the metallic. Overall, I'm surprised by how thrilled I am with HGM.
Emotional engagement with a color is entirely personal. With the various shades of gray created by all the shadows, it conveys an ominous cumulonimbus to me. My car looks like a cloud! and the exhaust notes sound like thunder.
Having fourteen months between the time I placed my deposit until I had to submit the final specs resulted in about 1,400 internal debates about which exterior/interior color combination to select. I had it more or less narrowed down to Accelerate Yellow Metallic and Rapid Blue. Showing my wife, she said, 'it's your car and you should get whatever color will make you happy, but just know that the C8 itself makes quite a statement,' Words of wisdom; and with that, I totally changed my thinking.
I ultimately went for a classic look that HGM provides with a bit of a WOW factor. The carbon flash/edge red stinger stripe moves the eye from the badge up to the two-tone interior. Edge red calipers and spectra gray wheels complement the stripe and the body color. The red rear Corvette script and the red taillights finish the effect.
I'm very pleased with my choices. I stare at this thing in my garage and get overwhelmed. Thanks to all who posted photos of their HGM C8s. I would never have selected this color without your input.
HSG is an awesome deep metallic color that changes with light, angle, reflections. Ceramic coated this past weekend, HRE’s, ACS front splitter, EOS splash guards, and front radiator screens all installed!
Here is mine at the museum just waiting for me to pick her up later this month. Waiting for the day we get her is worse than waiting for the day she was going to be built now that we know it's just sitting there.
Here is mine at the museum just waiting for me to pick her up later this month. Waiting for the day we get her is worse than waiting for the day she was going to be built now that we know it's just sitting there.
Best of luck she’s a beauty so what was your build?
Best of luck she’s a beauty so what was your build?
Thanks. It's a 2LT coupe with grey interior, edge red calipers, black fender stripes with edge red accent, engine appearance package, the machined trident wheels, low spoiler, and magnetic ride.
Very nice. I know a while ago there was talk about them deleting heated seats and steering wheels because of the chip shortage, but I haven't seen anything recently. Were they on your car?
———UPDATE———
A decision has been made. Instead of continuing to try to validate and make acceptable the stripe to paint color conflict, the stripes are coming off. Going naked, and loving it even more! When the weather warms up (Michigan) the stripes are going away.
Lesson learned? Don’t trust colors rendered on the build & price or visualizer.
Originally Posted by RandelB
The stripe is a bone of contention. From the moment the placenta sack was removed, the stripe looked odd. In certain light, with the Hypersonic casting a slight green, the stripe seems to cast a tiny bit of pink or red in comparison. It's hard to describe, but the 2 grays are from a different spectrum and so far we don't like it too well. They may be removed or changed, we haven't decided. We have decided to cancel the PPF until we make the stripe decision. We like the ghost appearance and many others have encouraged us to leave well enough alone. Time may help.
This is under some very raw and harsh bay lighting in the dealership service bay.
The bumper cover is getting quite a bit of natural daylight washing in.
———UPDATE———
A decision has been made. Instead of continuing to try to validate and make acceptable the stripe to paint color conflict, the stripes are coming off. Going naked, and loving it even more! When the weather warms up (Michigan) the stripes are going away.
Lesson learned? Don’t trust colors rendered on the build & price or visualizer.
GREAT lesson. Luckily Hypersonic don’t need no stinkin’ stripes
The C8 we’re driving is painted in what was probably our 4th or 5th choice based on the visualizer. But after we spent an afternoon at Ciocca checking out many color/interior/wheel combos, it rose to the top! No second thoughts when you see them in person!
