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Can't beat the gen 1 deep green. Sorry.

 

Forgive his ignorance. He's sorta new here

 

I agree, it's near same color of house I moved into last fall.

 

I meant your tideland jewel by aquamarine. Blue magnetism is turquoise jewel as my signature says. LOL

 

(sigh)

 

Seems you are thinking color example for tideland pearl looked like on Toyota's website. That wasn't the color. I that was actually one of the gen1 ones used there.

The color chip the dealer was almost black. Scared me off, and I went with driftwood, which I regretted after seeing a tideland in the wild.

Tideland pearl is a dark grey/olively green. It is one of those colors that shift with lighting. On overcast days, it can appear like a charcoal, with more green as more light comes out. Reminded me of the color of the bay where we spent summers, which is likely where the name came from.

 

Ah, you are right! By the “best Prius color ever” (perhaps only second to my Gen 4 PHEV Blue Magnetism), I was thinking of the Silver Pine Mica, which is a light green, not the Tideland Prius, which is too grayish for me (although the latter would make a good color choice for house sidings). (Sorry, @Tideland Prius.) Light green is perhaps the safest color because it is the most visible, and it keeps cool because it is light. Light green was very popular in the past, especially on Honda Civic, but now, it has all but disappeared.

Here is the Silver Pine Mica Gen 2 Prius. Another jewel!

 

My 08 was that color, kids called it the breath mint

 

It is the mint color!

 

My problem is that all cars 10+ years old have tons of rust hiding in the unibody, 2006 usually have the rockers rusted off

 

yeah... entirely true in the northern parts of the east coast and in your part of the country as well... But out here in the western states there's still an abundance of barely rusted vehicles going as far back as the mid to late 1900's.

 

that is so 20th century...

 

How often do you see a rusted Porsche? I recall a video showing how the frame was completed, then dipped in corrosion resistant liquid and then a current applied to bond the coating to the metal. I haven't seen my 2012 and more recent Toyotas with any problems on the body. Yes they rust on parts like mufflers and such but the bodies are good. And I drove mine in the salted snow and still do.

Absent the recent fiasco with corroded by salt battery to motor connectors on early Rav4.5 hybrids. Now covered with the longer part specific warranty for the $4k expense to replace that major cable disguised as a Customer Satisfaction Campaign. .

 

I still see tons of rusty cars that aren't too old where I am in Canada. But that's probably because of owners who don't wash their car in winter, and the fact that where I live we have a lot of freeze/thaw cycles. So salt will be applied more than once a week many times throughout the winter, and it will be "Active" in the water and ice melt off of cars very often. Heck, sometimes, its better to *not* garage park your car here, because it will stay out in the cold longer and there will be *less* opportunity for the snow and ice, and salty road grime/water to sit and melt on the frame. Sometimes its better for the salt to be ineffective and remain frozen on the car rather than active in solution coating the vehicle.

 

That was the Emerald Jewel!