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      09-21-2020, 02:56 PM   #45
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Then there is VisualEcho who makes me rethink choices depending on what picture he posts. Damn he sucks 🤣🙏, confusing me all the time @[
Dude, the way the light loves this car on any day, cloudy, bright sun, foggy, winter, whatever. Just fantastic IMO. Even just standard shots like the one below are epic because of the color.
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LBB is the same, and really, harder. It's because of blue. In the SO pix you can simply remove 80% of the blue to show something closer to what your eye would really see...but you can't do that with LBB.

It took me about 15 seconds to remove most of the blue from both of these pix.

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Yes the big giveaway for those that don't do much with colours is the blue wall in the background that isn't actually blue.
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      09-22-2020, 06:02 AM   #47
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If you're still deciding between LBB and SO make sure you see both in person. I was set to order an SO car and then saw SO on an X1. I was really on the fence after I saw SO in person. In certain conditions it's bright and vibrant and sometimes it looks really dark and brown.

I guess the same can be said for LBB. In certain lighting conditions, the color has a green or turquoise hue that some people don't like. Personally, I like the way LBB looks better. Just be sure to check both out.
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The other day I was pulling out of the car park at the shopping centre at a less populated time when suddenly an LBB M2C appeared behind me making a huge amount of noise with this small feral looking guy behind the wheel he was clutching like an amusement park ride with an expression of a chihuahua in search of an attractive leg to hump. My overall observation was that the colour looked stunning despite the humping threat.
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suddenly an LBB M2C appeared behind me making a huge amount of noise with this small feral looking guy behind the wheel he was clutching like an amusement park ride with an expression of a chihuahua in search of an attractive leg to hump
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Thanks for all the advice and suggestions everyone! Time to put my money where my mouth is and I went with...

Sunset Orange! Looking forward to joining the M2C family! Now just gotta wait for it to be delivered!



Thanks again everyone!
You'll love it. Looks good and the black grill, wheels and accents really go well with the color. That and the orange stitching tie it all together. The lines on the car were made for the tone shifting paint.
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My SO that I did ED on last year. Best M2C color in my opinion.
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Thanks for all the advice and suggestions everyone! Time to put my money where my mouth is and I went with...

Sunset Orange! Looking forward to joining the M2C family! Now just gotta wait for it to be delivered!



Thanks again everyone!
In the same boat here at the minute - tending towards SO as it’s unique to the competition, dealer has LBB in stock, but a SO on the way from the factory - ETA wk 43. I haven’t seen SO in the flesh yet
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I'm normally a blue car person, but I feel LBB is getting a bit stale. I'd rather BMW chose a different blue for the competition and I'd have been all over that.

The SO in the showroom did make me ponder, but then decided to stick with my first choice.
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I really like LBB and was gonna wait on a dealer shipment, but something happened when I was looking at the SO they had on the floor, undriven by the masses. IDK what it was, but I was looking at the car and something clicked and I wanted THAT car. I reached in my pocket and handed the keys of my 2014 M235i to the sales guy and asked him to have my trade valued. They came back with a killer offer for the M235i, more than what I was expecting by a long shot. I drove home in the SO 2021 M2C.
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      10-18-2020, 11:57 AM   #56
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SO all the way!

Too many shades of under different light. Plus who can't use an extra boost of vitamin C everyday
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GarageMadness, car looks fantastic in all your pics!
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GarageMadness, car looks fantastic in all your pics!
Thanks. Just Pixel 3 pics. Where are your pics?
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I love blue, especially cobalt blue (LBB). When I ordered mine there was no choice. That said I do love the orange color that's offered and I think it adds uniqueness to the car that even LBB doesn't. When I picked my car up the dealer had a black one and it was super sexy as well.
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That said I do love the orange color that's offered and I think it adds uniqueness to the car that even LBB doesn't.
I think that's exactly it. BMW pushed this blue so hard, and the car has become a classic in its own time, so the LBB has become the quintessential M2 color, but SO is much more unique.

The thing is though, and I'm being honest, I think I'd get tired of SO much quicker than I will LBB, it's just so different, and not as palatable in as many different lights. LBB looks great in literally any light.
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That said I do love the orange color that's offered and I think it adds uniqueness to the car that even LBB doesn't.
I think that's exactly it. BMW pushed this blue so hard, and the car has become a classic in its own time, so the LBB has become the quintessential M2 color, but SO is much more unique.

The thing is though, and I'm being honest, I think I'd get tired of SO much quicker than I will LBB, it's just so different, and not as palatable in as many different lights. LBB looks great in literally any light.
see for me it's the other way around. in different lights SO is always changing color.
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see for me it's the other way around. in different lights SO is always changing color.
But SO, to me, only looks good clean in bright sunlight or right at sunset. As soon as it gets dirty, or dark outside LBB edges it out.
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see for me it's the other way around. in different lights SO is always changing color.
But SO, to me, only looks good clean in bright sunlight or right at sunset. As soon as it gets dirty, or dark outside LBB edges it out.
Here is my dirty car coming off the truck on a really cloudy day.
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I think they're both great, unique colors. Can't go wrong with either.
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I think they're both great, unique colors. Can't go wrong with either.
I have owned both, and I love both.

My 2 cents : Get what calls to you and forget what others think.
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