Cars in colours you don't see often

[SPT28]

Petrol mica, another lovely individual colour from BMW ticked along with pretty much every other option when the car was specced. I've never seen another in the same colour.



Goes blue/green depending on the light



When I wanted a paint stick for it shortly after buying it the service person said there was one available in Europe... he got it for me

[soad]

[Puddenchucker]

I can't ever recall seeing another Merc in this colour:
(Cue dozens of photos of similar coloured Mercs)

[rohrl]

Puddenchucker said:

I can't ever recall seeing another Merc in this colour:

I should hope not either.

It's horrific.

[davamer23]

soad said:

I like that!

[BarbaricAvatar]

Puddenchucker said:

I can't ever recall seeing another Merc in this colour:
(Cue dozens of photos of similar coloured Mercs)

I'm fairly confident that it's not an official Mercedes colour. In which case, wrap or respray.

[GuitarTech]

Rare Jetta 2.0l TSI in toffe brown metallic

[Max M4X WW]

Spotted this..

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...



They come in yellow, but this seems brighter and more green? Very bright with matching seats!

[Blakewater]

TTOBES said:

An "earthy" coloured Golf V5. No UK dealer sticker or number plates.

Is that not just Grey Anthracite? My first car was a Polo in that colour. Volkswagen discontinued that particular shade of grey a few years ago, replacing it with Blue Graphite that varied between blue and grey depending on how it caught the light, so the number of cars still on the road in that colour is dwindling. It wasn't rare as a new order though.

[carlove]

Local BMW has a green 4 Series outside, looks amazing.
Not this one but same colour

They also have this one.

[Thermobaric]

Is that Dakar Yellow? Not feeling it really but that green is lovely.

[FRA53R]

I ran around in a 172 Exclusive for a while. Scarab Green was a great colour when clean.



Just before the whole VW nonsense my dad was looking at getting a Passat Alltrack in Crimson Red which seems a pretty rare colour, even though it looks awesome.

[Tuvra]

Zippee said:

A little shameless as it's my car but my T350 is one of only 3 TVRs (the others being a Tuscan and a wedge) in Toyota blackish red. My wife has christened it Dr Pepper as it can look, black, purple, brown or red depending on the light/shade. When the sun hits it the metallic red fires through;

Wait, whats up with that fuel cap? Is that aftermarket?

Anyone who has run a T350 knows what the original is like

[Big Raff]

Don't normally see too many green Mercs, but this is stunning. Was in London a few summers back...first Slr I couldn't stop looking at

[gilbo]

Tuvra said:

Wait, whats up with that fuel cap? Is that aftermarket?

Anyone who has run a T350 knows what the original is like

A few of the last T350's (before the factory closed) had this fuel filler. Smolenski was fed up with the back pressure build up on the old type that chucked fuel out everywhere on opening.

[Zippee]

Tuvra said:

Zippee said:

A little shameless as it's my car but my T350 is one of only 3 TVRs (the others being a Tuscan and a wedge) in Toyota blackish red. My wife has christened it Dr Pepper as it can look, black, purple, brown or red depending on the light/shade. When the sun hits it the metallic red fires through;

Wait, whats up with that fuel cap? Is that aftermarket?

Anyone who has run a T350 knows what the original is like

It's a Sag filler conversion, done earlier this year for me by the guys at surface and design when it also had the colour change to what you now see. They also did a bit of rerouting to the internal pipework to further reduce back pressure.
Only 1 350 ever left the factory with this done and I believe there was another pHer who did this conversion himself so AFAIK only 3 out there.
It does however, mean I can now fill up full flow with no blowback

[Tuvra]

Zippee said:

It's a Sag filler conversion, done earlier this year for me by the guys at surface and design when it also had the colour change to what you now see. They also did a bit of rerouting to the internal pipework to further reduce back pressure.
Only 1 350 ever left the factory with this done and I believe there was another pHer who did this conversion himself so AFAIK only 3 out there.
It does however, mean I can now fill up full flow with no blowback

Filling the old T350 was always "an event", firstly it would blow back and secondly it would keep knocking the pump off when trying to fill it. Refuelling was one of the negatives of owning the T350, good to see there's a way around the issue though

[Ste1987]

FRA53R said:

I ran around in a 172 Exclusive for a while. Scarab Green was a great colour when clean.



Just before the whole VW nonsense my dad was looking at getting a Passat Alltrack in Crimson Red which seems a pretty rare colour, even though it looks awesome.

The dealership I work at has an Audi TT in a similar colour, called Classic Red. £1700 to have that colour from brand new! No wonder it's rare!

on AutoTrader I've seen a couple of Mk 7.5 Fiestas in Candy Red, thought you could only get that colour on the Focus

[Redlake27]

B'stard Child said:

Oh I'm not so sure Vauxhall made loads of pink cars in the late 80's and early 90's

Just trying to remember the colour



it's on the tip of my tongue






I remember "Flame Red"

It makes me recall a conversation I once had with a prospective purchaser....

What colour is the Corsa?
It is apache red.
Do you have one that is red all over?

[Noble P4]

Thought it would be easy to find a guards red 996 Carrera 2..... appears that 10-15yrs ago silver, blue and black were the preferred colours.