I really like the look of the older Lexus and some of the older TL's which have the two tone look. Upper body is one color such as DWP and rocker panels and bumpers are silver metallic. Anybody think this would be good if we had car painted this way

 

Honestly...... I don't think so............

But then again that's just me...

my $0.02

 

I really like that look too, but it depends on the car. The important things to remember are how the sight lines will look, and where you start to blend the paint, or just have a solid line. The TL is not set up nicely to have a straight line job with the way the lower cladding is. If you did a blend job, it would look really nice, depending on the color combo.

My favorite: Met. Apple red top blended intoa deep Anthracite bottom. Damn, almost better than sex! (OK, not even close, but it sounds good! )

thom

 

I don't think it's good idea because we don't have big cladding moulding on our car. When you look at two toned car, there are big cladding mouldings that are different color from the original body color. It looks good with 2 tone because it's seperate piece fron the body. If you paint the lower section of the car without any of mouldings, it will look bad because of the section where the two colors meet. That's why some of 2 tone cars have chrome mouldings in between of two colors.

 

IMO, it won't look right on our TL.

 

They already do this. Look at 50% of all the WDP's...

 

I think it depends on color too. I saw a Camry with 2 tone, champaign and lite brown. eeeh I think same color with bulge out flender flare or cladding would be hot

 

We had this conversation a while back. Somebody even Photoshopped some pictures and posted them. Try a search to find them.

 

One of the reasons why I did not go with the Lexus ES300 is because of the two toned body... hate that look.

 

definitely not on a TL

 

umm.. i don't think any of the older TL's had the two tone... that wouldn't look right imo..

 

I pesonally don't like two tone colors on cars.

 

Damm the two-tone WDP's. *grrrr*




Love my WDP...but not the change in tones.....

 

I like 2-tone cars but it must be done right. For instance on the Older Benz's and Lexus's the gray bottom was on the lower body panel which someone stated earlier is a seperate part. In other words the lower body panel added ONE Line to the body of the car seperating the color of the car and the lower panel perfectly.

Cars that have 2-tone but a molding strip to seperate the 2 colors look tacky and added in my opinion.

For instance check out an old E or S-class Benz, LS or ES Lex and then look at the 2 tone Legend/RL or Camry and you'll see the difference.

 

Unlike the majority posted opinion, I actually like the 2 tone paint and have considered doing it. I thot of Grey bottom with my black car. The only problem is getting it to line with the bumper.. If you noticed the side trim (I'd imagine you would want to paint below the trim molding) does not align with the edge of the front and rear bumper. Any thots on how high you gonna come up? Any estimates from a paint shop? Have you consider plastic moldings instead of paint?

 

Personally dont like the 2 tone look.

 

I personally think the present TL would look crappy in 2 tone, however the Lexus ES300 with a black body and light grey cladding from the centre of the doors down looked great IMHO. However I would never buy a Lexus, as just like their cousin cars, Toyota, they are way overpriced, despite their refinement. Also I just love the way Hondas handle, and I always find Toyota interiors extremely boring.