Silver's the colour everybody writes off, and it's the one where the finish does the most work. There's no bright paint carrying the car for you, so what somebody notices from across a parking lot is the surface itself. Icon Rocklear on this Model Y gives the silver a depth and gloss it wouldn't otherwise have, and because the coating's permanent it holds there instead of drifting toward the dull, chalky version silver ends up at after a few years in the sun.

That long haul is the whole point on a car somebody's driving every day, and it's who this suits. Our Icon Rocklear page covers what it's doing to the surface.