Sure there’s better colors to express oneself vehicularly, but the finish takes a lot of road grime before looking dirty yet has a nice gleam when it’s clean.

Years ago when I was an exchange student near Stuttgart I asked my host family this very question. They had what I assumed to be a base model Audi (unless there’s a seat fabric somehow more spartan than nylon, and power front windows w/ rear hand-crank rollers actually costs extra). The sedan also had no nomenclature…