Brown back in vogue???
Discussion
At the Avis desk the other week I was presented with the keys to my hire car and directed toward the pick up lot. Walking to the car I looked at the keys, noted it was a Ford Mondeo I should look for and with some surprise saw the colour was listed as 'Brown'.
A brown car? I haven't seen one of those since the 1980's Cortina in light brown with a contrasting dark brown vinyl roof. Now I know fashions come and go, but I thought brown cars were still about as trendy as flared trousers!
Luckily, being a hire car, this was a long way from home and since there was no danger of anyone I know actually seeing me drive it I didn't immediately go back to the desk and request a proper colour.
The Mondeo turned out to be a light brown, in fact I go as far as to say pastel in tone. Is pastel worse than brown? The only pastel cars I see are Nissan Micra's and are invariably driven by OAPs.
So are browns and pastels back in car fashion. And are we going to see the re-emergence of banana yellow next??
A brown car? I haven't seen one of those since the 1980's Cortina in light brown with a contrasting dark brown vinyl roof. Now I know fashions come and go, but I thought brown cars were still about as trendy as flared trousers!
Luckily, being a hire car, this was a long way from home and since there was no danger of anyone I know actually seeing me drive it I didn't immediately go back to the desk and request a proper colour.
The Mondeo turned out to be a light brown, in fact I go as far as to say pastel in tone. Is pastel worse than brown? The only pastel cars I see are Nissan Micra's and are invariably driven by OAPs.
So are browns and pastels back in car fashion. And are we going to see the re-emergence of banana yellow next??
No, not lovely! It looks a little......, brown.
911s should be 'sharp blue', like the one I had. This was my first car and the one I taught my wife to drive in 20 something years ago. She's doing a hand stand on the beach because she'd just learned how to control the nasty rear end tendency of 1980's 911s
911s should be 'sharp blue', like the one I had. This was my first car and the one I taught my wife to drive in 20 something years ago. She's doing a hand stand on the beach because she'd just learned how to control the nasty rear end tendency of 1980's 911s
bencollins said:
OP where have you been for three years?
obviously driving around with my head in the clouds as I've noticed a lot of brown (and pastel) cars since driving the hire car. I guess they must just not register when they go past. Every time I see one now I say 'yuk' out loud. Mind you this is coming from someone who drives a green car - but hey green is cool.Hugo a Gogo said:
how about that 'cappucino' beige colour Fiat are doing now for the 500 and 500L?
do not want!
A beige 500-Lardy is a summation of everything in a car that says, 'please, you go first, I'm retired and a I dribble a bit when I'm under pressure'. If this is the future of car style then next year we'll see the big Mini re-branded the Maxi and available in that sandy yellow colour BL used to like.do not want!
Edit - mind you it hides the rust:
Edited by Lorneg on Friday 9th May 13:16
Edited by Lorneg on Friday 9th May 13:17
dugsud said:
Lorneg said:
No, not lovely! It looks a little......, brown.
911s should be 'sharp blue', like the one I had. This was my first car and the one I taught my wife to drive in 20 something years ago. She's doing a hand stand on the beach because she'd just learned how to control the nasty rear end tendency of 1980's 911s
That's a great picture..911s should be 'sharp blue', like the one I had. This was my first car and the one I taught my wife to drive in 20 something years ago. She's doing a hand stand on the beach because she'd just learned how to control the nasty rear end tendency of 1980's 911s
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