All the currant Ravs are built in the same factory with same paint procedures. All the paint no matter what country they ship it too will be the same quality..
I have noticed that the Toyota colors seem to look much diffeent under different conditions of sun, shade or showroom lighting.
I am interested in the red and if I did not know better I would say RAV4 comes in 4 different shades but it doesn't. But under different lighting it seems to look red, metallic red or a medium candy apple or some mix of all of the above.
I have this color and what he described is correct. From a distance in the sun, it almost has a cream color hue to it, like a real pearl. As you get closer and go to the shaded side the brilliant pearl goes away and almost looks like normal White with Silver overspray :?:
Awhile back someone asked to see the difference between White and Blizzard Pearl. I took a close up picture with the sun hitting it like the bottom picture (Japan) it has an abundance of Blue! It all has to do with the angle of viewing it and lighting, it can be seen in my album.
It's unique for sure, but the Everglade Metallic does the same thing 8)
I thought u asked if the the Japanese white 'looked better'I took that as the paint was a better process. Anyway, the colors all seem the same all around the world BUT the names of these colors vary..
The white pearl you see in Japan is exactly same as we get here in the US. I have seem many here
I agree that pearl paints exhibit different characteristics in different light and that is clearly visible in the photo's above. I have another vehicle (candy apple red) which cannot be photographed to accurately reflect it's true color, as seen with the naked eye, this is particularly apparent with digital cameras and blue pearl, (WRX) which for some reason tend to bring out green tinges that are not visible normally.
But to answer the question I think you would need to compare the paint codes.
Further to that though, the Jap one above appears to be photographed in perfect light conitions to emphasise the pearl look where as the US one is mostly in shadows.
It's all irrelevant anyway as you should be getting a black one....
