See all seven colors available on 2016 Chevy Volt

See all seven colors available on 2016 Chevy VoltThe Iridescent Pearl Tricoat And Summit White Look A Lot Alike In Pictures2016 Chevy Volt in Siren Red Tintcoat

2016 Chevy Volt in Siren Red Tintcoat

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2016 Chevy Volt in Mosaic Black Metallic

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2016 Chevy Volt in Iridescent Pearl Tricoat.

Image Credit: GM2016 Chevy Volt in Siren Red Tintcoat

2016 Chevy Volt in Siren Red Tintcoat.

Image Credit: GM2016 Chevy Volt in Summit White2016 Chevy Volt in Summit White.Image Credit: GM2016 Chevy Volt in Iridescent Pearl Tricoat2016 Chevy Volt in Iridescent Pearl Tricoat.Image Credit: GM2016 Chevy Volt in Kinetic Blue Metallic

2016 Chevy Volt in Kinetic Blue Metallic.

Image Credit: GM2016 Chevy Volt in Silver Ice Metallic2016 Chevy Volt in Silver Ice Metallic.Image Credit: GM2016 Chevy Volt in Mosaic Black Metallic2016 Chevy Volt in Mosaic Black Metallic.Image Credit: GM2016 Chevy Volt in Heather Grey Metallic2016 Chevy Volt in Heather Grey Metallic.Image Credit: GM2015 VoltMSRP$34,345ShopReviewsMore Photos2016 Chevy Volt Interior Options2016 Chevy Volt Technical SlidesChevy Volt Gen II Battery Lab2016 Chevrolet Volt: Detroit 20152016 Chevy Volt2016 Chevy Volt at CESSebastian Blanco

General Motors has been happy to promote the 2016 Chevy Volt in the shiny blue color. On the company's website for the car, though, we can find all seven exterior colors, thanks to the magic of digital technology. We went through the site and played around with the option picker and put together a gallery of all the colors the new Volt will be available in as well as the five interior options.

For the record, the exterior colors are: Kinetic Blue Metallic, Iridescent Pearl Tricoat, Summit White, Silver Ice Metallic, Mosaic Black Metallic, Siren Red Tintcoat, Heather Grey Metallic. You'll be forgiven if you can't quite tell the difference between the Pearl and the White in these images, but both colors have been available on the 2015 model year Volt. GM spokesperson Michelle Malcho told AutoblogGreen that buyers do have a preference, with Pearl accounting for 10 percent of the sales and Summit White accounted for 17 percent. The Pearl color is a tri-coat and thus has a $995 price premium, which was likely a factor as well. The interior of the new Volt will have two cloth options (Dark Ash and Jet Black) and three leather choices (Dark Ash, Jet Black, and Jet Black/Brandy). That last one will only be available in the LTZ trim level. You can play around with the color adjuster yourself here.

Kathy Sirvio, the color and design manager of the Volt design team, told AutoblogGreen that, "Kinetic Blue is a marketing name. At Design we call it 'Blew Me Away'. That is it in a nutshell. The blue color is vibrant, rich and eye catching. It may not sell at the highest volume, as we know from history whites, blacks and silvers are the dominant color sales. However, it will tell everyone who sees it on the street that here comes a new vehicle and it is expressive in all the right ways."

The next-gen Volt arrives later this year with a starting price of $33,995. The powertrain upgrades will push the all-electric range to 50 miles and the gas-only fuel economy to 41 miles per gallon.

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Lego Caterham Super Seven needs your help to reach production

Several hundred votes needed for fan-made prototype to advance to Lego review

Gearheads from around the world are familiar with Colin Chapman's original Lotus Seven, a bare-bones two seater that symbolized the Lotus company philosophy of adding lightness via subtracting unneeded parts. The Lotus Seven embarked on a serious diet, with the result being a distillation of everything that makes top-down motoring fun.

The original Lotus was produced from 1957 till 1972, when Caterham took over production, selling the Seven in kit form as the Caterham Super Seven. But Caterham was not the only company to offer the Seven in kit -- there were upwards of 160 companies that offered their own take on the Seven, with varying degrees of likeness to the original -- and varying degrees of quality.

This classic British roadster is a rare sight in the States whether as an original Lotus or a Caterham, but if all goes well the Seven could become one of the few Lego scale models of actual cars. And yes, it'll once again be offered as a kit, but one that you'll be able to put together in a couple hours at the most, without the use of any tools.

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Lego builder Carl Greatrix has created a Caterham Seven that's now barrelling towards the requisite 10,000 votes required for a fan-made Lego set to advance to the official review phase by the toymaker (with the final phase being production). The model features a realistic engine under a removable hood, turning wheels, and tiny details like springs in the suspension.

With just over a thousand extra votes needed and more than 574 days to go, the Caterham Super Seven is virtually assured to make it to the next stage where Lego will evaluate this set for feasability and demand.

"If a project gets 10,000 votes it enters the Lego review phase. Then, our review board evaluates and selects which project will become the next Lego Ideas product. Members whose projects are selected are recognized for inspiring the Lego Ideas set,"  the Lego Ideas guide says.

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The Lego Caterham poses on the hood of the real car. Photo by Carl Greatrix

Even though most of this set is made up of common Lego pieces, not all pieces are in production at any given time -- something that Lego's in-house set designers have to contend with on a daily basis. So while building something like a completely new Castle or City System set at home using pieces from the last 30 years may seem easy, only a limited number of Castle or City pieces are in actual production at any one given time, which is one of the controlling factors when it comes to production decisions.

The Caterham Seven is not the sole build by Greatrix -- his AV-8B Harrier and F4 Phantom made from Legos simply have to be seen to be believed.

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