The best thing to do, and watch out, it can become a huge time-suck, is look at the McLaren San Francisco Flickr page. They do a great job of capturing the various colors in both direct sunlight and in the shade.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mclarensanfrancisco/albums

Also, for a color like Storm Grey, your dealer should have a sample on hand. Go there on a sunny day and take it outside. I think it's a great color.

-Jamie.

 

Flat. Gorgeous color. I think car looks great. Was one of my top colors. Did not go with it for two reasons. One, I bought from stock and dealer only had storm grey 570gt and I wanted s. Second, I already own 3 grey cars and did not want a fourth. That said, it is flat and car really looks great. Shows lines but not at all in your face. Sinister.

 

Storm grey is a gorgeous color. Like @Howl said, it is more flat but looks incredible!

 

I bought my 650S in Storm Gray, I love this color.
It has a relatively high metallic share and acts quite different depending on the light (between flat and reflective).

 

Storm grey pics i took the other day from a 650s I'm interested in... its highly metallic in person and not "flat" at all.. my grigio telesto superleggera looks "flat" by comparison but even that has metallic flake in it in person

Are you talking in pics, or in person lol

 

Wow, it does look much more complex than I anticipated which is a good thing. I want a color that does not contrast with the palladium giving the car a more coherence appearance. I also want an elegant look with a color that shows the lines better than black (and its various variants which take certain lighting conditions to pop). I am also considering a luxury interior such as areia (luxury design 5) opposed to one of the alcantara sport interiors. To finish the elegant look, probably stay with silver forged wheels.
Opinions??

 

Wow, it does look much more complex than I anticipated which is a good thing. I want a color that does not contrast with the palladium giving the car a more coherence appearance. I also want an elegant look with a color that shows the lines better than black (and its various varients which take certain lighting conditions to pop). I am also considering a luxury interior such as areia (luxery design 5) opposed to one of the alcantara sport interiors. To finish the elegant look, probably stay with silver forged wheels.
Opinions??

I think @Dash is the guy you want to talk to.

http://www.mclarenlife.com/forums/mclaren-540c/60929-540-storm-grey.html

-Jamie.

 

It's a really great color. It's only flat in the dark but as soon as the light hits it, the color really pops! It's one of my favorite colors especially when you're looking for something on the stealthy side

 

My bad. I only saw in the showroom where it looks flat. Thanks for the correction.

 

That chicane grey 570 on that flickr page is gorgeous. So is that polaris blue.

 

i believe mclaren boston has a brand new chicane grey 570 for sale

 

I really like storm grey/gray. I have ordered a few versions and it sells whether it has yellow, red, or orange accents.

I have also custom ordered a few cars in various other (shades of) gray.

the metallic grays tend to have various colors in them and I categorize them this way:

silver/black hue- porsche volcano gray, seal gray, sarthe grey, zenith black, onyx black
green hue- Storm Gray,
bronze/brown hue- Porsche Agate Gray, Blade Silver, fire black
blue hue- flintgrau (PTS), Saros (new 720 color),

gray non-metallics, I refer to as

Saturated: Porsche Graphite Gray, Ceramic Grey

De-Saturated: Chicane Grey


then, a further delineator:

texture:

creamy metallic: small, evenly spaced flakes- cerulean blue, silica white, volcano yellow, tarocco orange


grainy metallic: rough, course flakes of various sizes- supernova silver, burton blue, fire black, volcano orange, volcano red

 

After looking at many pictures, I really like how the saddle tan looks with storm even the dash and other surfaces as long as I include the interior carbon door inserts to break it up a bit.