What is it about a white car?

[Debaser]

Because I like white cars.

Discuss..?

[TheHound]

liner33 said:

Recently had silver , then black , then silver but love white

Saw one of these identical to this tonight, it looked really good.

White just suits some cars.

[skinny]

I have a white mx5. but it's a '91 car, and i have had it for over 10 years, so i think that's ok.

[N88]

I personally think cars look great in white.

That and the fact a DC2 isn't a proper DC2 unless it's in Championship White

[RacingBlue]

skinny said:

I have a white mx5. but it's a '91 car, and i have had it for over 10 years, so i think that's ok.

Same here. I like it because it's from a time where white was deeply unfashionable on a car.

[Benni]

Digby said:

Nothing new.I remember the same thing happening in the late 80s early 90s.

Yes, I remember White Golf Mk1 Cabriolets in "all white" were THE rage in front of the local Disco.



The pic attached Shows the direction, but misses white soft top, white wiper rubber grommets and arms ,

white rollbar, white rearview mirrors, white side trim, white sunblinds (wd?) and white horizontal stripes stuck ober the

rear light Clusters.........did not like them back then, and now.

[MitchT]

It became fashionable recently and has started to become unfashionable again now. Basically there are a select few cars that look amazing in white, everything else looks like a fleet vehicle run by a company too tight to pay for paint with pigment in it.

[HarryFlatters]

White was popular in the '80s, then looked ste and dated horribly.

I suspect the same thing will happen now.

Ditto the metallic burnt sienna (brown) cars that are coming into vogue.

[Lozw86]

People buy them because they like them, just the same as with any other colour. Not too difficult to understand

[Joeguard1990]

It's because the actual shades of white you can get on cars now days are ten times nicer than back in the days.

The white paint on a Peugeot 205? I'll pass...

Even the shade of white on standard corsas and fiestas looks nice.

[GrizzlyBear]

Either some of the manufactures have made it the no-cost colour, or maybe it is just quite popular at the moment, so I suppose people think about resale.

On a Fiat 500 I think it is mandatory…

[Jezzerh]

I think it looks good on certain models. My wife's Golf is in Candy White, it was the colour she test drove and was in the showroom. She liked it, she bought it.

I said on the day 'shall we look at what colours you can get?'

'No, this will do it looks nice' was the reply. And I agree with her.

[thatdude]

I like white. My wife would like a white fiesta, I toyed with having my bike painted white when it was having crash-damage repaired, but then I remembered Yellow is a much better colour (which is the original colour).

[lowdrag]

Does anyone remember the Golf Mk 2 special that was white with - er - white carpets? Great choice that must have been.

But on tack I see only fear of a poor second hand value if one bucks the trend. Go into a dealers and it is white, white and white whereas a few years back it was silver and more recently black. Do many people order a car to their own spec these days or do they buy what is available today? I don't know, but I still believe that people are driven by fear.

[rallycross]

I like a white car (think 911, Golf Gti, sierra Cossie they look great in white).

But todays new white car tends to be a big stupid 4x4 with lots of LED and chrome, an idiots way of saying look at me (just think of orange faced fools driving new Evoque/Audi Q3/Q5/Q7 etc with their bright lights, white teeth, orange tan and white bodywork! Yuk).

[Riff Raff]

MitchT said:

It became fashionable recently and has started to become unfashionable again now. Basically there are a select few cars that look amazing in white, everything else looks like a fleet vehicle run by a company too tight to pay for paint with pigment in it.

[decadent]

I have a white car. Bought @ 6 months old. I had a choice between Red, Black, Silver & White. All same spec, I chose white as I liked it best.

Incidently, red and black were no cost option solid colours and the white and silver were metallics and were cost options. So I don't think white is necessarily the free choice and is mostly a considered decision like silver, grey, blue etc.

However I'd be lying if I wasn't also thinking about resale, white is popular, like silver so if I had a choice of allegro brown or white and happened to like the brown I'd probably take the white on resale value alone.

If I was buying a car such as an E36 M3 I'd take the colour I liked best regardless of resale, that's blue or purple. But then I'd not be planning on selling it. Ever.

[PositronicRay]

Easy to touch up, I use either tippex or emulsion if I have a tin handy.

[Matt Harper]

White cars reflect heat, which is a good thing for some of us.



…and don't put "Discuss" in your posts, it make you appear a right nonce.

[Paul O]

I'm fancying a white car. I don't know why. I can't explain it and I'm really sorry for liking them.

I see them on the road aping the transit van look - unpainted and just 'for a job' - but in the showroom white csrs look so lovely. So clean and fresh.

A white Cayman with that grey-and-white interior - yummy...