Thread: Are they any good? 60th anniversary svx

Originally Posted by Damo89

However that is only really 5 degrees Celsius... Not that big of a difference.

Quite logical that a black car heats up faster than a white one. Don't need Mythbusters for that.

Originally Posted by vnx205

SPINOFF: A black car heats up faster than an identical white car. (From Pilot 2)
CONFIRMED
A fan wrote in and asked a follow up question: "Does the color of a car affect the way it heats up?". The MythBusters used two identical cars, one black the other white and left them both out in the summer heat with thermometers in both. By mid-afternoon the black car had heated up to a temperature of 135 °F while the white car topped off at 126 °F, almost 10 degrees cooler.

My point exactly, 10f or 5c ...... Without a thermometer you couldn't tell the difference.

Both are ****ing hot.

The situation is worse than that Mythbusters' test suggests.

A black car heats up more quickly. While you might think there is little difference after a full day in the sun, there is a greater difference after a shorter period of time. The sort of time you might spend in the shopping centre while the car sits in the parking lot outside.

Since we are talking about Defenders there is an even greater difference between a black one and a white one.

Modern cars have a huge windscreen that slopes back a long way, so a lot of the heat buildup in a car is from the sunshine through the window.

A Defender has a tiny almost vertical windscreen, so much less of the temperature rise is from sunshine through the glass. Since a greater proportion of the temperature rise with a Defender is through heat absorbed by the metal panels, there is a greater difference between a black Defender and a white Defender than there is between a black sedan and a white sedan.

So that Mythbusters test doesn't tell the full story about black Defenders.

Haha, but the sun doesn't sit at 12oclock in the sky all day either......

Just park undercover, if it fits...

Drover - your 110 looks brilliant. In fact, it looks hot!

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Mine clean at start of a trip and battered half way down gibb river road, svx is a good rig, not interested in the whole white is cooler thing, just crank up the aircon !!!!!

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