Why so many silver and grey cars?

[JumboBeef]

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

[UpTheIron]

I've got one of each.

Both colours hide the dirt well!

[poing]

Check out the colour options for a lot of new German stuff, they leave very little choice. I'm sure a lot of people do it for fear of resale etc, personally I think it's a lack of imagination

[Ricky_M]

I've had 3 Silver cars. Won't be having another. Car parks look so drab and miserable.

[Tonberry]

Current and last car were both silver.

Not out of choice mind.

[zollburgers]

I've got a Silver car. I wanted a black one but I was buying 2nd hand and so colour wasn't as important as a car that worked properly.

[ewenm]

Because lots of people worry a lot about resale value and conservative is a good option. I was disappointed buying our new V50 that they've dropped the Brilliant Blue option Went for boring black in the end as everything else (other than red that the OH banned) seemed to be dull grey, grey-blue, silver.

[corradoG60]

JumboBeef said:

PS: I own a green motor

So do I, and the one before was blue, silver on most cars is bland.

[raceboy]

Was parked up in a hotel car park a few weeks ago and you could see the car from the room....classy view Every other car was grey/silver/primer/dirty white...and then POW! in the drabness was my bright red panzer wagon bringing a splash of colour to the scene.

[jas xjr]

I was driving near home recently, I saw three silver cars in a row approaching me. What are the chances of that I thought.
But it did not end there. The next three cars were silver too.

[Hitler Hadrump]

[andrew.]

i like grey
it reflects my personality

[AJI]

Well generally cars come in either Silver/Grey, Black, White, Blue, Red, Green, Yellow.
So its always going to be a common colour.


According to 'yes insurance' Silver is the most popular in 2006.
http://www.yesinsurance.co.uk/insurance-media-cent...

[martin mrt]

Yup I have a silver car, not the first and won't be the last as I really like the colour

[Martin_Hx]

I chose grey as i thought it looked good on the car ! Plus is was only on the face-lifted cars so a little rarer.... and yes, as i have found hides the dirt pretty well

[Papa Hotel]

Because people worry more about what a future owner might want than what they want themselves.

[Timberwolf]

I have a silver car, after having moaned for several about them being about the most boring colour choice you can make. I bought it secondhand, and the only other options available at the time seemed to be old codger burgundy, metallic baby poo yellow, or metallic hospital wall green.

Had black cars before that but in summer they're like an oven, and I didn't think that would work too well with leather seats. Not fancying spending July stuck to my car interior, and with black models thin on the ground anyway, silver it was.

Having played with a few online configurators and seen the varieties of paint on offer, I wouldn't be surprised if I'm not the only one having chosen silver not because it was desirable, but because it was the least awful option...

[V88Dicky]

The only time I got to choose my cars colour was when I purchased my (as yet) only new car. It was the rather fetching Mondial Blue from Renault.

[balders118]

My car is silver. TBH I was on a low low budget, and I really wasn't in any position to be fussy about colour... given the choice I won't ben getting another. However, as mentioned... it does hide dirt rather well.

Chris

Editied to fix retarded spelling

Edited by balders118 on Thursday 12th August 22:18

[MartinQ]

One thing that winds me up is people that call metallic grey cars silver.

Why not tin, iron, platinum, rhodium etc etc etc?