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Radar Blue AKA Pace Car Purple turns blue in the sun. The new purple has pink hues in the sun. They are going to look very different side by side.
I have a 98 Pace car, it's a fun car although not for everyone. When they built it GM instructed the designers to make the car as eye popping as possible and they scientifically took the colors GM had and combined them to make the scheme. And I can tell you it worked (and still works). people can't help to look at the car. Driving a 98 pace car is not good if you don't like getting stared at all the time.
When they built it GM instructed the designers to make the car as eye popping as possible and they scientifically took the colors GM had and combined them to make the scheme. And I can tell you it worked (and still works). people can't help to look at the car. Driving a 98 pace car is not good if you don't like getting stared at all the time.
To be fair, any vehicle with ugly bright yellow wheels is going to be looked at regardless of what the rest of it looks like. Nothing too scientific about that. Easily one of the ugliest Corvettes ever produced, sadly.
I suppose it’s my fault for asking but I don’t consider red mist in the same league as “red”. Never been a fan of the majority of red cars but it popped more than riptide blue which was next on the list. This purple probably would have made the list too.
need to see it on a large area cant get the full effect from a speed shape.. i have my paint supplier keeping an eye out. as soon as the formula is released i will do some spray outs to see how it actually looks or if gm released pics of an entire car... i love purple will add another to the stable if it is the right color.
1998 Medium Purple Pearl Metallic ........... Remember this color of Purple ??
I like this color of Purple . Thanks ......
Tom Geer in Tennessee
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That's basically amethyst. Gray with about 2 PPM of purple color. And naturally, GM didn't even think to put it on a C5 until the 3000GT/Stealth offered it in 1996. The purple they put on the Blazer was a far better purple.
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I agree on the 1998 pace car wheels. They're about the only C5's that still use those fugly stock rims. Ugly design made worse by ugly paint and an oversaturated with color interior.
‘Yes. There’s already a Smurf-blue in the line-up.
Rapid is far, far closer to smurfs' hue than hysteria is to Barney. I have a feeling anyone comparing hysteria to barney either has bad color perception or simply wouldve compared any shade of purple darker than pastel to the kids show host.
I dont think so. And we have no way to know until hysteria C8s are seen in the flesh and comparisons can be made. I'm not saying it isnt close, but hysteria looks like it has more purple and is darker than that truck. I say "looks like" of course because again we wont know till it is seen in the flesh. The configurator will undoubtedly NOT display the color accurately.
[QUOTE=Rapid Z;1607761868]Looks mighty close to me. 2025 looks like a strange Deja vu color year. GM seems to have lost its creativity when it comes to colors for 2025.[/QUOT
Actually owned a 1998 pace car and got so many compliments on the color that my head would spin. It was a gorgeous color in person. Give it a shot by seeing it up close and personal before commenting. Meanwhile, Ford and Chrysler have had great success at selling cars using the old color pallet. Maybe GM is using a tried and true idea. I’ll be looking at this color closely and the accompanying interior choices. 1998 Pace Car
Me as well but I’d think they won’t have a yellow interior and or wheels
Doubtful. But GM is coincidentally bringing back CY just as they are doing this. And it is criminal that we couldn't get at least 1 year of AYM and Hysteria...
Keep in mind that the new Comp Yellow exterior is metallic -- the C4 (1990s) Comp Yellow was not metallic.
And the the new Comp yellow sure looks like the shade of the C5 Millennium Yellow. To my eyes, anyway. Mill Yellow was not metallic.
Lookin at my C5 Corvette facts book by Casey, the 2003-2004 Chevy SSR pickup used the exact same 1998 Corvette Pace Car Purple. SSR called it Ultra Violet Metallic. But no yellow wheels on the SSR :-)
04-30-2024, 01:16 PM
