Porsche Macan Rental in Los Angeles

White is the finish that lets the Macan's proportions read properly. The car is short and wide with a fast-dropping roofline, and in a dark colour that reads as a tall hatchback; in white the shoulder line and the flared arches show, and it looks like the sports car it drives as.

Silver is the colour car designers use to photograph a new model, because it is the only finish that shows a surface honestly — no dark car hides a crease in it and no bright one flattens it out. On the Macan that means the shoulder running back from the front arch and the tuck under the doors are both visible, and they are the two lines the car is drawn around.

Black closes the Macan up. The window surrounds, the roof rails, the lower valance and the wheel arch trim are all dark on this car, so in black paint the whole thing reads as one continuous shape from the glass to the sill rather than as a body with trim bolted to it. It is the version that looks most expensive standing still.