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Old 11-01-2006, 01:31 AM
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What is most noticable is the huge preponderance of silver. Of the 50 cars, 29 are the silver-all-over brighter silver of the post 94 cars. There are 16 of the early 3-tone cars, and 5 that look like silver and black.

I'm wondering if our Japanese friends are fond of silver in a coupe? Or are they conscious of the fact that Giugiaro tends to present his style models very often in silver, or silver with a black roof? Curious, isn't it?

It is also strange that there are only 7 white cars. Importing cars from Japan to Ireland, one of the problems is the large numbers of white cars they tend to have on the second hand market. White cars are deeply unliked here, they could languish in a car sales yard for months or years. Still, there are only seven at this big meeting. Strange.

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The 3-tone silver was the theme colour for the SVX when it was introduced in Japan. It was the main colour used in the brochures, TV commercials and dealer showrooms. Also for later models, the number manufactured was pre-determined as was the colour ratio. With silver having been popular on earlier models, Subaru decided to make a higher percentage of later models in silver as well.

White was only available on the top model Version L, which was easily outsold by the cheaper Version E.
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Did you notice that the red SVX is left hand drive? It's imported back to Japan from US..
There's no Brilliant Red SVX in Japan.

Silver is popular..because those are later year models when Subaru was down pricing the SVX with limited editions called S3, S40, S40II. They all had bright silver.
Also had Bordeaux Pearl, green color called Bight green pearl and deeper Blue color called Peacock Blue met.(I don't believe it's Laguna Blue Pearl )

I'll post some those JP catalogue pictures soon.
I think it's possible Peacock Blue metallic is the same colour as Teal. We discussed this before. Phil in the UK has one, and we compared the colour codes.

LHD from the States. That explains it!

The later cars being mostly silver does not explain it all. Silver seems to be most popular by choice. There are 21 silver cars of the OLD silver variants, plus as you say 29 of the newer ones. It would be expected these newer ones would survive best. But even without them, silvers rule the numbers.

That would make the three rarest colours to be Blue, Mica Red and Graphite, plus White. I'd say most of the Whites are crushed or exported by now.

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The 3-tone silver was the theme colour for the SVX when it was introduced in Japan. It was the main colour used in the brochures, TV commercials and dealer showrooms. Also for later models, the number manufactured was pre-determined as was the colour ratio. With silver having been popular on earlier models, Subaru decided to make a higher percentage of later models in silver as well.

White was only available on the top model Version L, which was easily outsold by the cheaper Version E.
Does that mean any white car you get from Japan will have the active 4WS?

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Does that mean any white car you get from Japan will have the active 4WS?

Joe
Yes, well 99% will have 4WS. There were a couple of white non-4WS Version E models which were a special factory order only and a few were repainted by their owners.
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