How dull are our choices in car colour?

[Dave Hedgehog]

I have red wheels

[Monkeylegend]

We have 3 cars, 1 silver, 1 silver and 1 silver.

[williamp]

aeropilot said:

berlintaxi said:

Looks more like a funeral cornvoy,distinct lack of imagination in the UK public.

Hardly the fault of the public if the manufacturers don't offer anything else in many cases.

The so-called colour choice of many makers is more like a barcode of variations of monochrome.

It's fking depressing.

Relax. You can choose brake calliper colours instead!!

[anonymous-user]

Car colours are like suits. For most sombre colours are the norm, blend in.

But some will always want to stand out.

[aeropilot]

My problem is I remember what it was like in the 70's.......even ordinary cars were loud colours. Our next door neighbours 1.6L Cortina estate was bright signal yellow....and that was far from uncommon.

A Ford-UK colour chart from 1980/81.....oh happy days!

[sjg]

It's why I like leasing, you often get free choice of colour, it's only for 2 years and you don't have to worry about resale value. Have had a 1-series in Valencia Orange, current Golf is Tornado Red - would have had to pay more for something else other than white but even so, the others were all either monochromes or dark blues.

I like a strong signature colour - would happily have an Octavia vRS in that green metallic, or a Focus ST in Tangerine Scream.

[WJNB]

The fashion for 'Executive' or 'tarmac' grey intrigues & saddens me.
Perhaps if you're some sales rep. or sales manager & you're desperate to be taken seriously then the company issue BMW/Audi has to be a serious yet an incredibly dull colour.
Maybe you want to be invisible & blend into the road surface to ensure nobody can see you, how wise.
It's a bit like watching sheep,safety in numbers & then one leads & the rest follow, scared of being left behind. And we know how big sheep's brains are.
This country is dull enough without any more greyness.

[Speed_Demon]

Give me orange, yellow or kermit green any day of the week.

... that being said my current car is black, but I was hoping to buy one in orange.

[kambites]

We ended up with a black family car because the only other options available locally in the model we wanted seemed to be silver, grey or white.

Fortunately my car is green with yellow stripes to balance things up a bit.

[ukaskew]

It seems I'm in the same boat as many, really really wanted a bright car but simply couldn't track one down. Ended up with black even though I would loved to have had green, orange or yellow.

Even the Focus RS (violent green halo model last time out) is devoid of anything interesting now, not even Tangerine Scream from the ST.

Who decides the trends? If you physically can't buy a bright car how do those in charge know we do or don't want them?

[TazLondon]

The situation is terrible if you're in the market for a used car. You can have any colour as long as it's silver, black, white or grey. Boring or what? It gets far worse the higher up the car scale you go. At least with used family cars there's a tiny bit more choice in colours.

[Nickbrapp]

I don't think anyone actually thinks about the resale of a car when they buy it. White is the Trend at the moment, black is always popular, red is the free colour, and most manufacturers don't offer colours unless it's a lot more, bmw for instance don't offer any decent colours other than that bright blue and the rest are shades of grey, unless of course you want to pay a lot extra for it



What's worse is BLACK interiors, god they are so so boring, why are people obsessed with them? Especially when you can spec white or cream etc.

Edited by Nickbrapp on Monday 25th July 08:18

[smithyithy]

We have 2 x red and 1 x black.

Red is mine and my dad's fave car colour

My next car car may be yellow though.

[Pints]

Nickbrapp said:

What's worse is BLACK interiors, god they are so so boring, why are people obsessed with them? Especially when you can spec white or cream etc.

I think the black interiors, especially black headlining, look great. Each to their own.

Two greys and one navy car owner here.

Edit: Although they were probably listed as "hue of blackbird belly" or "shades of speaker box" on the options list.

Edited by Pints on Monday 25th July 08:26

[kambites]

Nickbrapp said:

What's worse is BLACK interiors, god they are so so boring, why are people obsessed with them? Especially when you can spec white or cream etc.

The thing I don't like about modern car in interiors isn't so much the blackness, although that is thoroughly dull; it's the amount of visible plastic. People rave about "soft touch plastics" in car interiors but as far as I can see, as a surface covering plastic is a cheap bodge, however "high quality" it is.

I don't have half the surfaces in my living room made of plastic, why would I want it in my car?

[bristolracer]

Try buying a van!

There is no colour card.

[sjg]

bristolracer said:

Try buying a van!

There is no colour card.

Not all of them, some have a great range of colours.

VW have a much better range on their vans - just looking at the configurator for a basic panel Transporter you can have solid orange, red, yellow, two blues as well as white or grey. Then as many metallics, including a couple of blues, a teal, a purple and a brown.

Transits can be had in red and a few blues, Vivaro in solid blue, red, or a nice bright "spring green" as well.

[smithyithy]

Transits look nice in that metallic blue, same as the Focus colour isn't it?

I guess white makes more sense for a work vehicle that's going to be signwritten though.

[bony_13]

One of the things I like about being self employed is the total freedom to choose my own car. Ok I've not gone nuts and my daily is only a flat red 11 plate Leon, but trust me even that stands out in many work car parks!

[Alex_225]

I'd be surprised if many people actually gave resale a second thought when it comes to colour but a lot of people probably go for a safe bet.

My other half wouldn't drive a bright coloured car because it would stand out too much so she'd only like silver or white ideally.

It seems some brands are predominantly one colour, we have three Mercs between us and they're all silver. I'd have bought a different colour (other than black) but you're somewhat limited with that brand. On the other hand I have an orange Megane 225 and blue/stripey Twingo so I'm not averse to colours.

I think some cars really suite an interesting colour, nice to see cars in a deep metallics rather than just white or silver.