pstonssuk

I had a bone stock CYM with great paint, and currently drive a black one with rare body kit, very loud exhaust, very fast, and just down right pretty. I can honestly say i got just about the same if not more looks and questions about the car from people when i was in the bone stock cym, then the fixed up black one.

Josh

FikseRxSeven

cym all the way

9Second7

Thanks Enough said, I own two original cym's and there are alot of peopel painting there car over cym and its really not, one of the 350 produced.

Srce

Exactly, please keep it Silver, here's an incentive.

rx7machine

CYM's hot and all but I gotta have my brilliant black.. Damn, if she comes with all silverstone FD's I want one!!

THIRDGEN

Black is an awesome color choice, as long as the interior is black also.......The CYM is the best when original......The pearl in the paint is so cool..........White is another good one.......dark windows, and polished aluminum or gunmetal rims.........But here is some more incentive to stay silver......One of the badest 7's I have been around.........400 horse, 285-18's all the way around.........Low, faster than a scalded cat, and sticks to the ground like tar on a hot day.............Clean, tasteful, understated, but carrying a BIG stick!

Dramon_Killer

I really like IBM.

KingFD

I really like the silver but if you really have to change it I would go with black.

Efinity

yyyaaa its a shame to lose a silver RX7 out there, but the color just isnt as good as black or yellow....i have black interior so black on black on black and a little black ontop of that.....i think its just initial d that is making me linger between the two. does brilliant black have any other colors in it or just black?

ZenRXSeven

I dunno about anybody else, but I have a thing about changing the color of a car from it's original color. It irks me. If you think about it, the color of a car has as much to do with the car's personality as does the lines/styling of the body, engine/exhaust tone, handling characteristics and type and overall performance of the motor.



Most FD's these days are about 10 years old, which is a decent amount of time for a car. It doesn't take long for a new car to become adjusted to itself and form its own personal identity after its made in the factory (about the time sitting around at the dealership and then the first 1500 miles), so most FD's have had around 10 years of adjustment to their personalities. They know what they are, they're used to it, and they're happy with it. Think of your FD, which has been silver all it's life; it's elegant, suave, intelligent, and beautiful, but then it wakes up one day to find itself a horrific shade of gaudy yellow. No longer is it the sophisticated and debonair self it used to be. Now it sees itself as loud, brash and obnoxious. You can imagine how hard it is for a car to come to grips with this.



But, some colors are similar enough to the original color that the change is not as harsh of a shock. Silver to black, for instance, is much more plausible because they share several similar characteristics. Black is very much like silver, yet with an added air of mystery, mischievousness, and perhaps a hint of danger, but also with a certain sense of humility. A change such as that is not a drastic complete redefinition, but rather taking the existing personality in a slightly new direction.



However, there are always exceptions. Even with a change as drastic as silver to CYM, your car may find that it likes its new skin and has no trouble changing gears to suit its new self. Although, I think the most important thing to do when you are seriously considering a new color, is to discuss the possibilities with you car. Being the one getting the new coat of paint, the car should definitely have some sort of input in the matter. I don't know your car personally, so I don't know how it will react to your ideas; it may be positive, or adamantly negative, or even indifferent, but it's important to check first, especially with an FD. We all know how finicky FD's are, especially when you do something to them that they don't like.