Racing Stripe thoughts
06-29-2012, 11:38 AM
#18
06-29-2012, 12:18 PM
#19
Racing Stripe thoughts!
(My supportive response)
You guys knew this was coming:
It is a matter of taste. The designer Stuart Karten once said to me, in response to my fretting about a color choice I'd made for trim on my M3: "The question should be - do you like it?" Much as I was expecting some high-brow designer's reaction - it was good advice.
But stripes create an optical illusion, one that compresses whatever they are applied to parallel with the stripes(s). That's why fat people shouldn't wear horizontally-stripped shirts. I added the red stripe to my G in part to take advantage of this effect - it makes the car appear lower. If you apply the sort of racing stripes that run down the car's center line, then the effect will make the car appear narrower from the front or rear - and this will be more pronounced the closer the stripes are to each other. Spread them apart and it will be better - but you're car will still appear to be narrow.
That's my 2 cents! And do what you like!
You guys knew this was coming:
It is a matter of taste. The designer Stuart Karten once said to me, in response to my fretting about a color choice I'd made for trim on my M3: "The question should be - do you like it?" Much as I was expecting some high-brow designer's reaction - it was good advice.
But stripes create an optical illusion, one that compresses whatever they are applied to parallel with the stripes(s). That's why fat people shouldn't wear horizontally-stripped shirts. I added the red stripe to my G in part to take advantage of this effect - it makes the car appear lower. If you apply the sort of racing stripes that run down the car's center line, then the effect will make the car appear narrower from the front or rear - and this will be more pronounced the closer the stripes are to each other. Spread them apart and it will be better - but you're car will still appear to be narrow.
That's my 2 cents! And do what you like!
06-29-2012, 12:26 PM
#20
. . . and you will indeed get mostly negative responses here. I'm not sure why. My M3 was eccentric in the extreme: a metallic blue car w/ metallic red painted light enclosures, everything behind the steel gray mesh custom grills red, red side stripes that ended at the red tail lights . . . and in LA that car drew nothing but wildly positive accolades wherever it went.
If anything our Gs are more appropriate cars for such wild expressions if we so desire them. They're not made in Bavaria, and at the end of the day they're Nissan Skylines. Go nuts!
If anything our Gs are more appropriate cars for such wild expressions if we so desire them. They're not made in Bavaria, and at the end of the day they're Nissan Skylines. Go nuts!
06-29-2012, 12:32 PM
#21
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This discussion is not going anywhere, thanks to all the creative gifs and posts
It's your car, do what you like. You've heard both sides
It's your car, do what you like. You've heard both sides
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