Mercedes Cubanite Silver - is it really beige metallic..?

[Ari]

Well, is it..?

[TheEnd]

It looks a little "tainted"

I wonder if the car sales company ever took 3 steps back from their fancy new logo to see if they could read it from such great distances.

[soxboy]

Yup, that's definitely JRG.

When I was ordering my CLK I had a long conversation with the leasing company as they had the car down as simply 'silver' and didn't seem to understand why I was concerned about which particular silver it was.

[AndyT77]

Horrible colour in my opinion, but i've seen worse.

[fozzymandeus]

Beige and Mercedes have a long, illustrious history. It is only fitting that they continue to sneak it onto the colour lists.

[AndyT77]

fozzymandeus said:

Beige and Mercedes have a long, illustrious history. It is only fitting that they continue to sneak it onto the colour lists.

Tell me more, i thought that silver was more their historical colour?

[soad]

Sort of. Very dull to look at, a bit like those beige vauxhall insignias etc.

[fozzymandeus]

AndyT77 said:

Tell me more, i thought that silver was more their historical colour?

I was being facetious, bringing to mind the fleets of beige W123 230E's you'd see kicking around in the 80s and the W114s in beige before that.

Silver is, of course, the trad Merc colour, which is why I felt justified in going for silver for my own, but in the 70s and 80s Mercedes sold far more boggo beige cars than they did silver (back when metallic was out of vogue).

[Zwolf]

Worst "I've got a new car" post ever.

It looks a lot like AM's Tungsten Silver, which I think is a great colour and it's more interesting on the SLK than Default Silver.

It's just as applicable to other German manufacturers as silver was their national racing colour back when the world was black and white, we had BRG, the French had blue and the Italians had red and the Japanese white etc.

[Ari]

Zwolf said:

Worst "I've got a new car" post ever.

Nah, worst "I've found the most perfect spec SLK ever in the Pistonheads classifieds (a rare 350 manual with all the right options and Harmon Kardon hi fi), but just can't get past the fact that, whilst it's called silver, it's actually beige..." post ever!

I'll have to stick with my current "not quite silver in a bluey silver but at least it's not beigy silver kind of way" silver SLK for a bit longer I think.

[MondeoMan1981]

Its definately up there with Ford's "oyster silver"...

[MarsellusWallace]

I wouldn't have said cubanite was a 'goldy" colour myself.

Travertine Beige has a lot more gold in it.

[Agrilla]

Looks a little like the Lotus colour 'Storm Titanium' but difficult to tell from photos

[anonymous-user]

As its a hairdresser's car, couldn't you just buy it & give it some silver highlights or something?

[Ari]

Or perhaps grey highlights to match my own...

[Stick Legs]

What BMW called Bronzit Beige in the 1980's. At least they were honest!

[Ari]

Quite!

Think I'll leave this one on the shelf...

[Deerfoot]

My Dad`s E-Class was Cubanite, it looked great to me.

Maybe it suits the E better than the SLK?

[niva441]

My Sport Coupe is Cubanite, I have thought that, much as I like the colour, metallic beige is a straightforward summary of it.

[anonymous-user]

Deerfoot said:

My Dad`s E-Class was Cubanite, it looked great to me.

Maybe it suits the E better than the SLK?

I had an E-Class estate in Cubanite (photo in profile), I thought it looked great, but I personally don't think it suits any Merc except E, M and GL classes!