RS2 is -not- "Solar Yellow"
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RS2 is -not- "Solar Yellow"
yah, I just realized that we're calling this car by the -celica color name-
why????
On the window sticker that came with my RS2 it clearly states:
"color: SUPER BRIGHT YELLOW / DARK CHARCOAL SP"
Our yellow RS2 is the same yellow paint system as the Celica's "Solar Yellow", right?
So then why do we call it by the Celica color name? Why???
=there is no reason to call our RS2's "solar yellow"=
How do you feel? Do -you- want to honor the Celica? I don't, even if it is the same color and -just a name- we probably ought to call it by the official name.
camo green
black sand pearl
polar white
etc, and.
super bright yellow
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Originally Posted by Soon2BxB
one way to solve it
take the paint code
go to toyota
have em look it up and see what it says
as far as i know - the rs2 is SOLAR YELLOW
take the paint code
go to toyota
have em look it up and see what it says
as far as i know - the rs2 is SOLAR YELLOW
First, you guys are right if you agree with me that it's "just a damn color name"
But when/where in automotive history before has a manufacturer advertised the color as ONE name in it's literature but ANOTHER name on the -official window sticker-????
And what is the freshest, most current name of the color? A: On the window sticker is the lastest word because these are the newest cars:
"Scion XB 5-door"
"year/model 2005/200C"
"color SUPER BRIGHT YELLOW"....
yada yada yada.
It's freakin' schizophrenic!
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Here I come to solve the argument!! (Sing it to Mighty Mouse people).
It's kind of both. The paint code is 576 which the catalogue lists as "Solar Yellow" (also used by Celica, Matrix, and MR2 Spyder). However, my parts catalogue also lists this as "Super Bright Yellow" (the same catalogue lists Hot Lava as "orange").
Hope that helps.
-Alex
It's kind of both. The paint code is 576 which the catalogue lists as "Solar Yellow" (also used by Celica, Matrix, and MR2 Spyder). However, my parts catalogue also lists this as "Super Bright Yellow" (the same catalogue lists Hot Lava as "orange").
Hope that helps.
-Alex
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yes, thanks gc. that's helps. now we know the Scion dept. is not perfectly in synch.
LOOK please at your window stickers, RS2 owners.
Report here if your sticker also states "Super Bright Yellow"
Why?
Well, to see if maybe s it's only SouthEast Toyota Distributors (the oldest, biggest independent) that printed window stickers "Super Bright Yellow" GulfStates is the other independent distributor
There are 12 other Toyota product distributors in the US that are owned by Toyota.
Therefore if -cars in northern, midwest and western states, etc, have this "super bright yellow' designation then-- that shows origin inside the Toyota/Scion organization.
In which case I'll write to Scion Customer Care to ask politely how the discrepancy came to happen.
Pretty clearly "solar yellow" IS the official and favored color. That's what Scion.com calls it. There may have been a decision change at some point which did not reach the distributing arm of Scion, in part or in whole Yet, these stickers were printed only a few weeks ago with the "wrong" color name.
and this is why I'm curious. it is not a slander on Scion to ask questions
These stickers become extra-cool collectible in any end result
LOOK please at your window stickers, RS2 owners.
Report here if your sticker also states "Super Bright Yellow"
Why?
Well, to see if maybe s it's only SouthEast Toyota Distributors (the oldest, biggest independent) that printed window stickers "Super Bright Yellow" GulfStates is the other independent distributor
There are 12 other Toyota product distributors in the US that are owned by Toyota.
Therefore if -cars in northern, midwest and western states, etc, have this "super bright yellow' designation then-- that shows origin inside the Toyota/Scion organization.
In which case I'll write to Scion Customer Care to ask politely how the discrepancy came to happen.
Pretty clearly "solar yellow" IS the official and favored color. That's what Scion.com calls it. There may have been a decision change at some point which did not reach the distributing arm of Scion, in part or in whole Yet, these stickers were printed only a few weeks ago with the "wrong" color name.
and this is why I'm curious. it is not a slander on Scion to ask questions
These stickers become extra-cool collectible in any end result
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last year my dealership bought some xB's from california to sell before we were in phase thre of the nationwide scion rollout, and on the window stickers. camo was dk green, BOP was dk blue etc etc. no idea why, wondered that myself. the paint is the right color, maybe they had a guy on the machine that prints the name of colors who didn't care that day . . . anyone with the REAL answer why?
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Well, the official color code name is actually Solar Yellow, as it is shared with other Toyota cars. Obviously the distributors have renamed it for various reasons (anti-planetary and cosmos regions?)
