Costco Parking Lot, Timnath, CO, September 29, 2017
Wordless Outtake: Dirt Is The Loneliest Color
– Posted on October 1, 2017
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Costco Parking Lot, Timnath, CO, September 29, 2017
Somewhat odd that the roof is very clean in comparison; I guess the aerodynamics are similar to my ’01 Focus ZX3. I kept that car spotless, yet the rear hatch always seemed to be dirty..
Aerodynamics can do funny things. I had the same problem with my old Ford Laser, but it never got as bad as this.
Hah – reminds me of the Adobe Car commercial from Saturday Night Live.
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/adobe/n9492?snl=1
I had the same thought but you beat me to it.
Looks like the khaki color that’s so hot right now on Tacomas and some other new cars. I’m surprised it’s not available on Subarus yet.
The CrossTrek has had a version of it for a couple of years now. It’s very similar to the old VW color in the late 60’s, a little little lighter then on the Tacoma.
2012 Fiat 500 in Mocha Latte; I can’t think of anything modernish that came before it (and I love this shade on everything I’ve seen it on so far):
Had a ’57 Morris Minor in a color like this, after a fender bender found out AMC Rambler Montego Rose matched it.
As a camo treatment, it depends on the colour of the dirt you’ve been driving on, of course. brown dirst, red dirt, black soil plains…..
When we got our Verada/Diamante, the sales guy promoted the colour we got because it matched the colour of the dirt out our way, so wouldn’t show. But it’s a good way to make sure people don’t rub against your car in a parking lot.
Wow, that’s beige, same exact beige as my Dad’s Saab 900 was! Ironic hot I guess.
Dirt is the new Black.
Air flowing over the top and sides of the car flow past the back creating a region of vacuum. With no flowing air dust particles just settle and stay. This is so extreme I’d like to have seen a profile shot.
It’s been a bit rainy here the last couple of weeks, it’s actually a fine mud spray, not dust.. Likely he lives a few miles up a very well maintained dirt county road and can hit speeds of perhaps 50 or so on it as they are quite smooth. The sides were about 80% covered just from the mist coming out of the wheel wells. Kind of like after a long highway trip skiing with wet or salty roads.
I knew it wasn’t dust. It actually looks like the whole back was sprayed with a gun that color. The giveaway was from the runoff from the rear window washer.
Please clean the lights off!
Yes. He’d get pulled over for this here, and an obscured plate too.
Yeah true, I owned several cars in Australia that only ever got the front and rear screens lights and plates washed when filling up never the actual car, no point when your driving on red dirt roads all the time.
Traveling from Creede to Denver Colorado in 1968 my ’63 Electra convertible was TOTALLY covered like this (was in traffic that helped throw it) We stopped a dozen times to clean lights, windows and all. I was up at daylight to get it clean again.
Just funny! Thanks.
Would’ve been funnier if it was shot next to a spotless lifted pickup
Did you buy too much clay facial mask in bulk at Costco you didn’t even know what to do with it?!
Looks like my car rental after driving through a haboob (sand storm) storm going from Tucson to Phoenix a few years ago. That white Malibu was totally brown as the storm was accompanied by rain. At times I could barely see past the leading edge of the hood in front of me. I put on my full lighting system and just kept driving, 5-10 mph, bumper to bumper, hoping that I would see the car ahead of me if they had to stop. It rivalled the worst of snow white outs I have ever been through.
Dirt. It’s what makes a Subaru a Subaru.
Time to replace the cabin air filter.
Finally a way to cover up the 27 badges Subaru have on their liftgates
You got the make, model, AWD, and engine size (it’s one of those fancy 3.6R folks showing their money off….). At least there’s no PZEV….or the owner badge with activities….
There are a few artists that specialize in back window art. Some even choose their rides based on how well the dirt sticks.
The most rugged a CUV can ever look
In Vancouver (Vain-couver?), Canada I’ve heard strories that people actually pay to mud their vehicles up. Like it’s a badge of honour or ruggedly cool or something. I know as a younger driver I felt “cooler” or more purposeful having a dirty car. But then I realized no one really cares about what any one else is doing and only care about themselves and what they project in getting other people to care — which, again, they really don’t. With this arguably true self-conclusion, at that point I stopped caring to impress people too.
In a similar vein, Will Smith had this to say about people and their need to impress (with money… or mud— same difference?): “We spend money we don’t have on things we do not need to impress people who do not care” or in this case: mudding cars with no real reason in driving conditions we do not need to impress people who do not care. If the Outback driver needed to go that severe in the back 40, wouldn’t he or she upgrade to a proper 4×4 or, like, a tundra truck or something?
This Outback is just plain dirty. And I’d feel like I needed a bath every time I drove it; unless of course he or she just drove through a 30 mile mud bath (backwards and forwards).
It appears as though this stuff is caked and dried on, as though left unwashed for some kind of bragging rights.
As I’ve ma-Toored over the years, I’d want to get the dirt off as much as possible lest I start a rust fair for the body and frame, nook and cranny,
Get over yourselves, people! No one cares about muddy vehicles reserved for the barnyard.
Now. I know I’m getting grumpier as I age so I concede when I say“….I’m a mean one, Mr. Grinch…I reeeally amm a heelll…..”
Has Subaru started making its cars from bread based products?
MY car would have been washed an UNTOLD number of times before it reached this stage!! 🙂
And you should have seen it before it went through the carwash…! 😉