I know I see vehicles of all makes and models in orange now. Not many are old so there's no telling if the color will hold up. Remember how bad silver used to fade?

I had a dark red car that oxidized really bad but never owned a bright red one. I also never notice that values decreased faster on red cars. Guess I'll have to rethink my choice. I could always buy white then add stripes in any color I like. That would give the true SS look.

 

Chevy as of this date has not announced a white HHR SS, so if you wanna buy a white one, it will have to be N/A. 'course you knew that!

 

I choose Imperial Blue, but I'd have to see them in person to decide. See the link for a picture of a Cobalt in Blue Flash Metallic - reminds me of the old Dodge Neon blue (blurple).

http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums...howtopic=19415

 

well i think i'll go with sunburst orange.... like mine right now, i LOVE this color you can barely see dust and nice under the sun

 

An interesting article from Yahoo on the popularity rankings of car colors is linked below. I find it interesting that silver ranks the highest across models in the nation, yet it ranked by far the lowest in our little poll here...

http://biz.yahoo.com/brn/070914/2258...pf=family-home

 

Wow, color is SUCH a personal choice. I LOVE white with deep tinted windows. The options for extreme contrast with white is high- black rims, black chrome or paint, black grill, etc... but NOT AVAILABLE on the SS! ouch Red is always sweet on a fast car- unless it's a corvette. That screams "mid life crisis!" sorry y'all that are rockin red on a sports car! Just IMHO. A lot of my friends hate orange but, as a Chevy guy, I've always loved it. The blues are great- in the right shade- but don't stand out enough for me- unless you two-tone it with another color. And I've seen more than one car here that shows what silver can do. But for me- in spite of the tremendous cleaning issues- BLACK is the bomb. So much potential for contrast and it can easily be two-toned or monochromatic. Subtle or screaming. Looks amazing at night cuz lights don't alter the color.
What I really love- most of y'all are happy with the color ya got! Rock on!

 

Quote HHR_ROX_CALI; “Wow, color is SUCH a personal choice. And BLACK is the bomb”

Yep, to both. I had narrowed down my choice to Black, Red, and Blue Flash. Black is nice, and so because I have been agonizing (Virgos are anal) over my SS color choice (There should be only one special color for the SS IMO) I went back and looked at the black SS pictures from the unveiling and saw something that I didn’t observe before. While they where not high resolution pictures, it was noticeable that as the intercooler grille and the main grille are black and on a black car it was a lot of black and some of the detail gets lost.

So I have made the decision, its Victory Red (with the black grilles.)

By the way, I don’t think there is going to be Imperial Blue. From the GM media web site; For release: Aug. 16, 2007, 12:01 A.M. EDT 2008 HHR SS FAST FACTS Quote: “They include (1)Victory Red, (2)Black, (3)Light Tarnished Silver Metallic, (4)Mystique Blue Flash Metallic and (5)Sunburst Orange II Metallic.” (Numbers in brackets are mine.)

 

I wonder if it's because people who want an HHR want something "different", and are thereby drawn to "different" colors...

 

High performance cars have been produced in bright and distinct colors for many years. Remember the first Corvettes and T-birds? Chevy should offer the SS in the same colors of their other SS models. That will help distinguish them from other HHRs.

 

I'm sure that's what they will do after all of the early adopters buy one. You have to have more "tricks in the bag" to keep reinventing the wheel :)