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    Colour choices

    I'm deciding which colour to choose for the Highline 162TSI with DAP, and to be honest I'm a bit underwhelmed with the choices.

    Personally I think the Deep Black looks best, but pretty much unanimously people say black cars are the worst at showing scratches and dirt (never owned black so just going on Internet opinions).

    I know a lot of people getting the R line pack are going with white, I can understand that, but not a huge fan of white cars in general.

    The blue is a ridiculous blue, my current car is silver so don't want another, orange doesn't row my boat, so I'm left with Ruby Red or Indium Grey.

    Reds can look terrible, or great (CX5 red looks great IMO), so a bit of a lottery what this one will look like. I wish the Indium Grey was a bit darker to be honest but looks like that's the colour I'll get based on the above rationale.

    Any thoughts/opinions? And what colour are you going with and why?

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    If you want some real life photos of the different colour options, unfortunately not the R Line since there aren't any here yet but does give you and idea on the Highline then have a look here: Motors search results - Find vehicles on Trade Me Motors

    Looking at the photos I'm not a fan of the Ruby Red and I wasn't certain on the Blue, coming from a Golf R in Rising Blue which I loved the colour of I thought this blue wouldn't live up to it at all. I think the black will take away from the black accents that the R Line body kit has so that left the grey, silver or white. I have always liked white cars so that was an easy option for me.


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    I want the orange, the mrs calls me obnoxious for wanting it but little does she know that calling me that, makes me want it more. But i think white is the best looking colour for an r line. I wish we could get the pearl white but i am told that it isnt an option

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frogasaursas View Post
    I'm deciding which colour to choose for the Highline 162TSI with DAP, and to be honest I'm a bit underwhelmed with the choices.

    Personally I think the Deep Black looks best, but pretty much unanimously people say black cars are the worst at showing scratches and dirt (never owned black so just going on Internet opinions).

    I know a lot of people getting the R line pack are going with white, I can understand that, but not a huge fan of white cars in general.

    The blue is a ridiculous blue, my current car is silver so don't want another, orange doesn't row my boat, so I'm left with Ruby Red or Indium Grey.

    Reds can look terrible, or great (CX5 red looks great IMO), so a bit of a lottery what this one will look like. I wish the Indium Grey was a bit darker to be honest but looks like that's the colour I'll get based on the above rationale.

    Any thoughts/opinions? And what colour are you going with and why?

    I have put on order a 162TSI R-Line in Deep Black - always have had black cars (besides the wife's white Polo GTI) and love them. Go with your initial thoughts and don't look back.
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    Agree the blue seems a bit ordinary compared to the blues on the Golf. I have an indium Scirocco and I think it is great not so dark that you start to loose all the surfacing effect and not black nor a regulation silver. Have seen two indium cars. One in the UK and one at the dealers The VW red on the Tiguan also looks ordinary compared to say the CX5 or better still the cx3. That said opted for orange or at least my wife did the tigger is hers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fridgie877 View Post
    I want the orange, the mrs calls me obnoxious for wanting it but little does she know that calling me that, makes me want it more. But i think white is the best looking colour for an r line. I wish we could get the pearl white but i am told that it isnt an option
    My wife chose the orange for her Highline. As she didn't want the R line it was a pretty easy choice - it featured heavily in the brochure and seems to be a bit of a hero colour for the standard cars (white for r line). Her previous Tiguan was silver black wasn't consider the red and the blue were out as was indium.

    Personally i I think the Orange looks great.
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    I chose white for the R-Line I have on order. I've never had a white car before, I've always gone for greys or silvers and blues but this time I wanted a change. I think the black accents on the R-Line really suit it in white so it was an easy choice.

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    The blue is hilarious. It's like they are replicating the blue from the Gen 1 where it goes Catalina -> Biscay -> Night throughout the model life.

    I rarely if ever see a Catalina Blue because no one wanted a light blue CUV but see tonnes of the night blue so you think they would have the sales data to show that the light blue is a terrible option.

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    I saw the blue at the dealers and it does look a bit washed out. I think they would have been better off with another silver in the lineup (or pearl white) than the blue.

    Orange is great would have been a wild colour to get in R-line. I think the contrast with black accents on orange would work really well.

    Black R-lines work less well due to all the trims being the same colour. It really needs some highlights to break up the black on black - unless you like the blackout look of course!

    So yes by the time you cross off colours from the shopping list for one reason or another you're really only left with a small choice.

    I think there's going to be a few White Tigs on the road...


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    Quote Originally Posted by tigger73 View Post
    I saw the blue at the dealers and it does look a bit washed out. I think they would have been better off with another silver in the lineup (or pearl white) than the blue.

    Orange is great would have been a wild colour to get in R-line. I think the contrast with black accents on orange would work really well.

    Black R-lines work less well due to all the trims being the same colour. It really needs some highlights to break up the black on black - unless you like the blackout look of course!

    So yes by the time you cross off colours from the shopping list for one reason or another you're really only left with a small choice.

    I think there's going to be a few White Tigs on the road...


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    Yeah, I bet with the MY18 or MY19 they'll release some better colours, but in the meantime I think most of the ones on the road will be white, silver or grey. I remember when I bought my 2006 Jetta, it didn't come in grey, so I got it in blue (it was a nice gunmetal blue though) and a year or two later there were all these grey Jetta's driving around!

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