Shades of gray

I have a black leaf, but would have preferred gray had it been available in 2011.

For 2013, they announced a new gray color, and showed off a 2013 prototype car in a dark/metallic/slate gray that looked good to me:




But when the "Metallic Slate" production version came out it seemed to me that the gray was a bit lighter and less metallic:



Did others notice this too?

And for 2014, it looks like they are switching from "Metallic Slate (KBC?)" to "Gunmetal Metallic (KAD)".

Apparently the UK version already had the KAD/Gunmetal color in 2013:


Nissan apparently has a whole bunch of different gray paint types for different vehicles including:

K26/Hippo Gray Metallic
K50/Dark Slate Metallic
K51/Gray Metallic
KAC/Desert Shadow Metallic
KAD/Gun Metallic
KBC/Metallic Slate
KBG/Brownish Gray Metallic

K13/Dark Gray Metallic
KAX/Dark Gray Metallic
KBD/Dark Gray Metallic

I wonder if the 2013 prototype was painted in K50 (Dark Slate Metallic) but they switched to KBC (Metallic Slate) for production?

Sorry, can't get past "Cronic Nissan" :lol:

Hard to from the pics. Sometimes lighting and processing of the image can drastically change the impression from real-life. And then there is monitor calibration. Hard to accurately portray car colors online.

Nubo said:

Sorry, can't get past "Cronic Nissan" :lol:

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I can't get past "Hippo Gray Metallic"! :lol:

I think they switched it because they already run that paint on other models in the Smyrna plant.