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In the past I have mainly gone for sensible, safe colours such as silver and errr silver.I have now gone for an orange Cayman S Sport.So far peoples responses have been very positive but there is a niggling feeling that this car/colour combo might attract the wrong sort of attention.
For those of you that have had bright, dare I say, in your face cars what have been the positives and the negatives??
For those of you that have had bright, dare I say, in your face cars what have been the positives and the negatives??
This cost me more than a white DC2 but I sold it for about the same money...all cos of the colour. I loved now bright it was if you're going to get an exciting car, might as well get it in an exciting colour 
The M3 is my mates.
Teg_BM_04 by rhys.hocking, on Flickr
The M3 is my mates.
Teg_BM_04 by rhys.hocking, on Flickr
I had a chrome orange Elise for a few years. The 'Tango' car as my wife liked to refer to it. On the whole people liked it and gave positive comments, though usually qualified by 'I wouldn't have that colour myself, but it looks nice'
I did have the car vandalised though, and I suspect the extrovert colour attracted the attention of the vandals, but that's not a good reason to avoid a colour you like. It only happened once to me so hardly statistically relevant data.
I think a Cayman will look fabulous in orange, if you like it yourself who cares if some people have bad words to say, they are only jealous.
The only tiny fly in the ointment would be resale. It's a colour that might limit the potential market when you come to sell it, but a Porsche isn't an introvert car in any colour, so it might not matter - you only need one person who wants to buy it.
I did have the car vandalised though, and I suspect the extrovert colour attracted the attention of the vandals, but that's not a good reason to avoid a colour you like. It only happened once to me so hardly statistically relevant data.
I think a Cayman will look fabulous in orange, if you like it yourself who cares if some people have bad words to say, they are only jealous.
The only tiny fly in the ointment would be resale. It's a colour that might limit the potential market when you come to sell it, but a Porsche isn't an introvert car in any colour, so it might not matter - you only need one person who wants to buy it.
I have a bright yellow Octavia vRS as a company car, when it's time for a new one next year I'll probably get the same again.
It's very easy to find in car parks, and bees are attracted to it in Summer
The family like to call it turbo-banana
It's very easy to find in car parks, and bees are attracted to it in Summer
The family like to call it turbo-banana
Edited by Thunderace on Tuesday 4th December 12:17
BUG4LIFE said:
This cost me more than a white DC2 but I sold it for about the same money...all cos of the colour. I loved now bright it was if you're going to get an exciting car, might as well get it in an exciting colour
The M3 is my mates.
Love the 'teg, but that colour M3 does absolutely nothing for me. Different is good, but that's just wrong to my eye. The M3 is my mates.
Thunderace said:
I have a bright yellow Octavia vRS as a company car, when it's time for a new one next year I'll probably get the same again.
It's very easy to find in car parks, and bees are attracted to it in Summer
My old yellow clio 197 used to get covered in insects in the summer. Certainly a very striking car though with the full RS bodykitIt's very easy to find in car parks, and bees are attracted to it in Summer
I was pretty damn close to speccing an Imola Yellow R8 for my Jan '08 delivery slot. I even had someone in the R8 "team" photoshop it for me.
But when I found it would push my delivery back a couple of months (Carbon shortages were also looking like delaying things too) I chickened out, saved myself about £3k, and went with Ibis White.
To this day I'm still not sure that was the right decision - but as I also needed to resell the car in 18 months, I can pretty much say that it probably was (from a financial perspective) as I've no doubt that Imola Yellow would have looked the mutts nuts, but it would certainly have only appealed to a narrow spectrum of buyers at resale time!
With bright and garish colours, I'm very much for "buy what you like..." but if you are the sort of person keeping half and eye on resale, you may well end up talking yourself out of getting what suits you. A shame, really.
The moral of this story is - if I find myself back in R8 ownership, I think it'll be in something garishly coloured. Actually Ibis White was a great compromise as it cost nothing, and white cars still weren't that common in 2007. But it wasn't yellow/orange/lime green...
But when I found it would push my delivery back a couple of months (Carbon shortages were also looking like delaying things too) I chickened out, saved myself about £3k, and went with Ibis White.
To this day I'm still not sure that was the right decision - but as I also needed to resell the car in 18 months, I can pretty much say that it probably was (from a financial perspective) as I've no doubt that Imola Yellow would have looked the mutts nuts, but it would certainly have only appealed to a narrow spectrum of buyers at resale time!
With bright and garish colours, I'm very much for "buy what you like..." but if you are the sort of person keeping half and eye on resale, you may well end up talking yourself out of getting what suits you. A shame, really.
The moral of this story is - if I find myself back in R8 ownership, I think it'll be in something garishly coloured. Actually Ibis White was a great compromise as it cost nothing, and white cars still weren't that common in 2007. But it wasn't yellow/orange/lime green...
Little Dave said:
For those of you that have had bright, dare I say, in your face cars what have been the positives and the negatives??
When I bought my MX5 it was green, yellow, white and red. Kids would wave, adults would laugh and police would follow me home.So I painted it black. I'm much happier now.
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