Car colours

[aeropilot]

dsuk said:

It explains abominations like this... (Waits for forum backlash)

The TT maybe an abomination, however, the colour is really nice

[soad]

Nearly every car on the road is sporting some boring shade of white, back, or silver...
The champagne beige also falls in the so unbelievably boring category.

Some manufacturers do try and break out of the norm with "fun" colours...
Morning Piss Gold, Baby Puke Yellow, Lime Green Metallic, 90's Teal, Pale Yellow, anyone?

[Dave Hedgehog]

aeropilot said:

dsuk said:

It explains abominations like this... (Waits for forum backlash)

The TT maybe an abomination, however, the colour is really nice

Ipanema Brown?

Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Friday 27th February 11:19

[Matt UK]

Johnnytheboy said:

Brown does seem to be becoming popular at the mo...

Good. When Porsche launched the 991 Carrera 4 and 4S they showed off one in Macadamia. I like it!

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=porsche+991+brow...

[GTIAlex]

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[kambites]

Dave Hedgehog said:

Ipanema Brown?

That's lovely.

[TommoAE86]

Sorry but that Clio did look like Shiny primer to me... however pass me the below grey on a car and I'll be grinning ear to ear

[Johnnytheboy]

Matt UK said:

Johnnytheboy said:

Brown does seem to be becoming popular at the mo...

Good. When Porsche launched the 991 Carrera 4 and 4S they showed off one in Macadamia. I like it!

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=porsche+991+brow...

I remember I used to see a guy driving a Boxster in a sort of dark metallic brown every day.

I once saw him at a petrol station wearing a brown suit, shirt and shoes.

Not good.

[fezst]

White and gold cars are bloody awful.

I tend to prefer Blue/black.

[xRIEx]

fezst said:

White and gold cars are bloody awful.

I tend to prefer Blue/black.

Don't start that st here

[anonymous-user]

Dave Hedgehog said:

aeropilot said:

dsuk said:

It explains abominations like this... (Waits for forum backlash)

The TT maybe an abomination, however, the colour is really nice

Ipanema Brown?

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 27th February 11:19

I always loved the classic 911's in the bronze/brown shades. I think that Ipanema suits the TT

[BL Fanboy]

Lets not forget Marmite colours are actually brown.

Silver/grey is just so boring and a cop-out these days.

I have a silver car and a light goldy/sagey car. The gold car is stunning in comparison to silver.

[MissChief]

I've also grown to love Purple/Violet:

[medieval]

Dave Hedgehog said:

aeropilot said:

dsuk said:

It explains abominations like this... (Waits for forum backlash)

The TT maybe an abomination, however, the colour is really nice

Ipanema Brown?

Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Friday 27th February 11:19

Ooh yes please - I had mocca anthracite pearl on my Passat CC GT and it looked superb to me I have to confess

Nothing wrong with the Dickinson colour range

[eldar]

I've just bought a new car. Colour choice went like this...

Standard colour is red. Any other colour between £150 and £595 extra. Red it is.

[AC43]

Dave Hedgehog said:

Ipanema Brown?

Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Friday 27th February 11:19

That reminds me of the sh*t I had this morning.

[jamieduff1981]

eldar said:

I've just bought a new car. Colour choice went like this...

Standard colour is red. Any other colour between £150 and £595 extra. Red it is.

I hope that is because the car you bought looks best in red.

I think that Clio posted earlier looks crap. I have to say I hate hatchbacks and think it would look crap in any colour, but it's especially crap in grey. I thought that Audi RSwhatever estate thing Chris Harris was on about looked utterly ste in grey as well.

I do quite like a nice silver, and I like black too. I usually try to go for nice colours like blues, reds, purples etc but did get a grey Ranger from new because they had the right model and I wanted one immediately, not 9 months later which was the lead time. And the other colours weren't great either apart from orange which is a colour I have an irrational hatred for. I never once considered the mobile phone company "Orange" because I hate orange, and hate having to use Easy Jet because they're orange. Weird, I know...

[DonkeyApple]

john2443 said:

One thing that I have never understood is why people buy cars from new in awful colours, eg Beige.

I can see that buying secondhand you have to have to some extent what is available, but I wait for one in an acceptable colour.

BL used to have a few rubbish ones, Lilac on 70s Minis and 1100s - it looked like grey primer - and shi mud Brown. BMC even replaced the very nice Primrose Yellow on the Frogeye with Beige which I've never understood.

I'd have thought by now manufacturers would have settled on some decent colours, but I recently saw a newish Fiat 500 in Beige which is what made me think about it.

Has anyone here ever chosen to buy a new car in an awful colour? If so, why!?

I must confess that I believe the colour range on the Fiat 500 to be the best around.

They have this 'nostalgia' range that reminds me of the piss, puke and st orientated car colours of my youth, along with sun faded reds and Blues.

Some are so terrible and shocking that they are instantly brilliant. Like the very pale, mint green one I saw last week.

As a child I held piss yellow and pooh brown Leyland colours in total contempt but now view them as refreshing brilliance.

[eldar]

jamieduff1981 said:

I hope that is because the car you bought looks best in red.

I think that Clio posted earlier looks crap. I have to say I hate hatchbacks and think it would look crap in any colour, but it's especially crap in grey. I thought that Audi RSwhatever estate thing Chris Harris was on about looked utterly ste in grey as well.

I do quite like a nice silver, and I like black too. I usually try to go for nice colours like blues, reds, purples etc but did get a grey Ranger from new because they had the right model and I wanted one immediately, not 9 months later which was the lead time. And the other colours weren't great either apart from orange which is a colour I have an irrational hatred for. I never once considered the mobile phone company "Orange" because I hate orange, and hate having to use Easy Jet because they're orange. Weird, I know...

No, it doesn't look best in red (IMHO), but red is inoffensive enough not to persuade me to spend extra (2% to 5%) extra.

[DonkeyApple]

eldar said:

No, it doesn't look best in red (IMHO), but red is inoffensive enough not to persuade me to spend extra (2% to 5%) extra.

Exactly. Colour is only really a serious issue worth spending money on if you are married. Paying £1k to have one less 'whinge' topic is a bargain then.