Why so many silver and grey cars?
Discussion
The nice thing about silver is that it never looks that dirty. Black (or white) (of which I have one of each) will be dirty 45 seconds after moving off your drive.
Silver cars are however quite an anticlimax to clean as they never really get that 'depth' of shine to them. A newly cleaned/polished black car looks super.
Silver cars are however quite an anticlimax to clean as they never really get that 'depth' of shine to them. A newly cleaned/polished black car looks super.
My last car was silver, it hid the dirt very well which was good for me as I hate dirty cars. I didn't buy it through choice though, the car was bought on condition. The single biggest reason there are so many silver and grey cars around is for resale purposes; people are so obsessed with what their car will be worth when they sell it on, that they simply don't dare buy a vehicle in a colour which isn't perceived to be neutral.
Gaz. said:
Acehood said:
My last car was silver and my latest is black. Wish I'd got a silver 182 instead. Would have been far easier to keep clean. Or at least it'd look clean all the time.
Yet it is such an unrewarding colour when you do clean it. You could do a bat s
t mental 4 day uber-wash with the finest products and it'll still look like you never bothered.I've had three black cars, I can't say any of them were harder to keep looking clean than any of the other colours I've had.
My problem with black cars is that every time it rains the car is immediately covered in water spots. There is also swirl marks all over the thing and I've not got a porter-cable or whatever to get rid of them. Suppose I'll have to pay someone to remove them for me.
frosted said:
JumboBeef said:
Is it me, or are the UK roads currently full of silver and grey cars?
Who owns a silver or grey car, and why did you choose that colour?
PS: I own a green motor
Green it's crap colour unless it's the racing green on a classic car . Who owns a silver or grey car, and why did you choose that colour?
PS: I own a green motor
My
SUV in black the best of a rather drab selection chosen by the importers (Mazda.) The US and Oz spec versions of the same car are a bit more interesting. I think at the time there only five colours available for my car in the Uk. Black was the only standard colour and the only one they had in the stockyard, so I went for it.
My Mgf is Jewish Racing Gold. Not to everyones taste but it gets noticed. Not bad for a 10 year old car being a head turner.
SUV in black the best of a rather drab selection chosen by the importers (Mazda.) The US and Oz spec versions of the same car are a bit more interesting. I think at the time there only five colours available for my car in the Uk. Black was the only standard colour and the only one they had in the stockyard, so I went for it.
My Mgf is Jewish Racing Gold. Not to everyones taste but it gets noticed. Not bad for a 10 year old car being a head turner.
g3org3y said:
The nice thing about silver is that it never looks that dirty. Black (or white) (of which I have one of each) will be dirty 45 seconds after moving off your drive.
Silver cars are however quite an anticlimax to clean as they never really get that 'depth' of shine to them. A newly cleaned/polished black car looks super.
I've got a silver car (by choice) and when it's freshly waxed it looks fantastic (IMO). I've always had dark colours before and was just so fed up of constantly washing them. Silver cars are however quite an anticlimax to clean as they never really get that 'depth' of shine to them. A newly cleaned/polished black car looks super.
The silver looks cleaner for longer.
in Germany at least, vast numbers of Golf-to-Passat-class cars are bought new as fleet/hire cars - they're all in plain silver/grey/blue as inoffensive resale colours - small cars like puntos or polos, or sports cars aren't such big fleet cars, so you see a few of those in red/green/yellow (or all 3 in the Polo's case)
I have until recently always had black cars... the only two non black cars I had were a 106 Rallye (they only came in blue or white) and a 2010 Fiesta Zetec S in Red which looked awesome and actually stood out a bit.
I have just ordered another company car and I HAD to have a metalic colour. I wanted a non metalic, but the answer was NO.
So I had the choice of
Black (had to many and its not worth the effort)
Bluewater (basically a bluey silver)
Space grey (a dark grey silver)
Titanium Silver (a proper silver)
Lemans Blue (not keen on blue)
So I will be another boring german grey car driver... sorry, frankly the options are not there, and there was no way I was waiting 5 months for a scirocco in an interesting colour, they are the only car with an interesting line up of paint.
I have just ordered another company car and I HAD to have a metalic colour. I wanted a non metalic, but the answer was NO.
So I had the choice of
Black (had to many and its not worth the effort)
Bluewater (basically a bluey silver)
Space grey (a dark grey silver)
Titanium Silver (a proper silver)
Lemans Blue (not keen on blue)
So I will be another boring german grey car driver... sorry, frankly the options are not there, and there was no way I was waiting 5 months for a scirocco in an interesting colour, they are the only car with an interesting line up of paint.
Edited by GSP on Friday 13th August 13:07
Edited by GSP on Friday 13th August 13:08
Gad-Westy said:
Cons:
I can't think of car that genuinely looks it's best in silver
Mercedes 300SL Gullwing Coupe? That looks awesome in Silver... Did they do any other colour actually? I might have seen a Red one once? I can't think of car that genuinely looks it's best in silver
I have a silver E36 M3 Cab as I wanted to buy on condition and I wanted a Blue with mushroom leather and Navy hood, but this one was the most mint by a country mile when I was looking so I got it. In fact Silver with Black leather interior seems more rare on the E36 M3 looking at the PH classifieds!
I need to get it up for sale while it is still 'summer'... I need a Maser 3200 in my life!
Edited by BluePurpleRed on Friday 13th August 13:08
Gaz. said:
I've had three black cars, I can't say any of them were harder to keep looking clean than any of the other colours I've had.
Of the last few cars we've had, the Civic, MX-5 and Impreza were silver and the 350Z is gunmetal. The RX-8 was dark blue and the Elise is black. The silver cars can go weeks without being cleaned without looking too bad - the black and blue cars look filthy almost as soon as you've driven them.The Civic was the only one bought new, and I regretted not getting a black one, because black comes up so well when clean - but it just doesn't stay like that.
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