As I write, the car park here at Autocar Towers is steadily filling with slushy, light snow.
At the moment it is nothing that's going to significantly trouble our travels to and from the office, although we've heard tales that the road network not far from us has started to choke up.
In any case, I'm fortunate to be running an all-wheel-drive Subaru XV at the moment. Maybe my car's rugged capability is the reason I was the one of the first to reach the office this morning.
When I turned up, I parked my blue XV next to the orange BMW M135i you can see in the first row of vehicles. About 30 minutes later the snow started and has carried on falling consistently since then.
As a bit of light-hearted fun, I've been trying to work out the reason for a strange anomaly that's developed over the past couple of hours.
Curiously, the BMW's bonnet has remained remarkably clear of snow, even though the white stuff has started to coat the surfaces of my diesel crossover and most of the other cars.
I'm sure there's some logical explanation that I'm not clever enough to comprehend. Given that the BMW had been parked up for longer than the XV, it can't be that the engine bay is still warm and has melted any snow that gathered on the bonnet.
Does anyone out there know why it could be? Is it simple chance or positioning? Is BMW using some ultra-gloss paint treatment that repels snow? Is it the colour of the paint? Note from the photograph taken by our intrepid chief photographer, Stan Papior, that the similar-coloured SsangYong on the same row is also virtually snow-free.
Apologies in advance if there's a glaringly simple reason. I'll blame it on brain freeze...
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The snow is so beautiful
The snow is so beautiful. You know, I live in a warm country, and it doesnt snow here, even in the winters. I wish we could enjoy some real winter here...
Its not the case that the
Its not the case that the snow suits the body of any brand of car. It is the case that how it looks when snow fall on a car or it covers the exterior of a car. Since cars the material things or vehicles with solid body and of different colors. Snow can suits to colors like white or gray. So the car might be a colored or gray does look beautiful when covered with snow.
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That an interestign phenomena
This is interesting, buy I think it is related to the color of the car. Dark colors keep the heat
longer, so when you go out of the car, it takes it longer to get cold. Light color metal tend to
become cold right away. Refrigerator today