What ever happened to brightly coloured cars?

[anonymous-user]

kambites said:

SidewaysSi said:

To properly use a remotely sporty car i.e. go shopping, park it anywhere etc., I want it to be in a dull/boring colour.

My Elise is a daily driver in a brightish colour (it's BRG but has bright yellow stripes) and I've never had any bad experiences with regard to how people react to it. Quite the opposite usually.

Absolutely right. Dull cars are for dull people.

[Pope]

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Preferred the T Roc, much nicer metallic over the straight Q3; both bright though!

Ravenna Blue next......

[lemansky]

A nice bit of Bornite Metallic never hurt anyone.



(photo credit to JOB 2.5-16)

[RDMcG]

itsallyellow said:

Love this thread and love a bit of colour!

No black or silver here!!

Brilliant collection of cars there!

[t2007p]

No boring colours here!

[Don1]

I couldn't decide what colour to go for, so I went for most of them!

[Speed 3]

Been looking for a 987 Boxster and its a sea of monochrome although some bold soul specced this when new:




Never seen that colour in the flesh.

[LunarOne]

Pericoloso said:

Tim bo said:

Deerfoot said:

LunarOne said:

I have one one my driveway and it's definitely no supercar...

Bravo, fantastic choice.

Agreed. That boxster looks superb in lava orange.

I'm going to pile onto the thumbs up for this ,you cannot beat orange .

Never seen a Boxster in that colour before , there is a Cayenne or Macan I see locally in orange though ,will try and get a pic if I ever see it parked .

Sadly it's not Lava Orange, because I would have MUCH preferred it. If I ever get a 718 GTS 4.0 that will be Lava Orange. In fact the car was advertised as Lava Orange and as soon as it appeared for sale I slapped a deposit on it as it's a manual with the PTV LSD which I had been hunting for. It was a good two-hour drive north, and when I got there I was disappointed to discover that the car was actually Gulf Orange. But it only had 8k miles on the clock and having been a Porsche GB press car had a fabulous spec, so I took the plunge and bought it on the spot. Perhaps I shouldn't admit that I was actually looking for one in Agate Grey or a similar boring colour. I can't park anywhere without someone wanting to talk to me about it. It's been featured in the Daily Telegraph article on the best sports cars of 2014. I see it appearing in random photos on the internet, and it's even graced the cover of a book on Porsches. Children point, chavs shout "rev it!" and adults turn their head. The attention is actually a little much, but people do seem to love it.

Since buying the car I've had the solid black alloys repainted in McLaren sparkle grey (I hate solid black wheels!) and then diamond cut, and I've added graphite grey Porsche decals on the side.

Drivers' Planet Article: https://driversplanet.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/por...

If anyone's interested it's appeared in some Youtube vids during its time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZEs913aXYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNrsMMciXSw

The interior is also quite orange, with orange contrast stitching on the leather dash and door trims...

Edited by LunarOne on Saturday 5th September 13:04

[AC43]

Suits me. My previous four have been silver, silver, silver and silver. I was looking for a grey or black car for the current one but for the life of me couldn't find one in the right spec so reluctantly ended up with dark blue metallic. It's grown on me so that's now on my palette.

My wife's replacing hers soon and has chosen grey metallic.

I've had various greens (ugh) in the past, a yellow (barf) and some reds (it's OK they were mainly Alfas). But, given a choice, over the decades I've had a licence I've always gravitated to silver or grey. And now blue (but only very dark blue).

I've just looked out of my window and every single car is white, black, grey or blue. Yey :-)

[sjc]

I have a couple, and an old shape in a modern colour !

[irocfan]

LunarOne said:

Since buying the car I've had the solid black alloys repainted in McLaren sparkle grey (I hate solid black wheels!) and then diamond cut, and I've added graphite grey Porsche decals on the side.

Don't make you wrong on the wheels - I'm in the process of having my solid black resprayed

[Pericoloso]

LunarOne said:

Sadly it's not Lava Orange, because I would have MUCH preferred it. If I ever get a 718 GTS 4.0 that will be Lava Orange. In fact the car was advertised as Lava Orange and as soon as it appeared for sale I slapped a deposit on it as it's a manual with the PTV LSD which I had been hunting for. It was a good two-hour drive north, and when I got there I was disappointed to discover that the car was actually Gulf Orange. But it only had 8k miles on the clock and having been a Porsche GB press car had a fabulous spec, so I took the plunge and bought it on the spot. Perhaps I shouldn't admit that I was actually looking for one in Agate Grey or a similar boring colour. I can't park anywhere without someone wanting to talk to me about it. It's been featured in the Daily Telegraph article on the best sports cars of 2014. I see it appearing in random photos on the internet, and it's even graced the cover of a book on Porsches. Children point, chavs shout "rev it!" and adults turn their head. The attention is actually a little much, but people do seem to love it.

Since buying the car I've had the solid black alloys repainted in McLaren sparkle grey (I hate solid black wheels!) and then diamond cut, and I've added graphite grey Porsche decals on the side.

Drivers' Planet Article: https://driversplanet.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/por...

If anyone's interested it's appeared in some Youtube vids during its time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZEs913aXYI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNrsMMciXSw

The interior is also quite orange, with orange contrast stitching on the leather dash and door trims...

Edited by LunarOne on Saturday 5th September 13:04

I didn't think it was Lava but didn't say anything as I'm usually wrong about most things ,I prefer your Gulf orange as it's more brighter

than Lava .

[bluemason]

[unsprung]

LunarOne said:

The interior is also quite orange, with orange contrast stitching on the leather dash and door trims...

That ruddy bright hue is handsome, imo.

As I've said before on PH, the London Tan offered by Jaguar is a personal favourite:

Edited by unsprung on Sunday 6th September 16:59

[aeropilot]

unsprung said:

LunarOne said:

The interior is also quite orange, with orange contrast stitching on the leather dash and door trims...

That ruddy bright hue is handsome, imo.

As I've said before on PH, the London Tan offered by Jaguar is a personal favourite:

Nice.
Similar in shade to the BMW Individual Amaro Brown I have in my X5.

[AlphaDelta]

Went for a walk this afternoon with the other half after reading this thread and checked the colours of the cars in town. White/grey/black on 90%+ of cars we saw. One small car park we passed only had black cars in it!

On sporty cars with dull colours the current fiesta ST colour choices are:
Race Red
Frozen white
Moon dust silver
Agate Black
Magnetic (grey)
Performance blue (grey blue)
Silver fox (grey)

“Hot hatches” don’t seem as hot on the colour front anymore.

Edit: what is it about this matt undercoat grey that’s emerged in recent years? It’s everywhere and I’ve friends who love it

Edited by AlphaDelta on Saturday 5th September 20:08

[Pericoloso]

Seeing that list available for Fiesta ST ,there was an ST in orange at the local Ford dealer till recently ,dealer now shut down .

Maybe it was ST line instead , or an old model don't know .

[DoubleD]

Not keen on all this orange leather, its like being on a cruise ship full of old folk who've spent too long in the sun!

[Pericoloso]

DoubleD said:

Not keen on all this orange leather, its like being on a cruise ship full of old folk who've spent too long in the sun!

Sitting on the orange crusty folk is frowned upon ,so I'm told .

[Mark8815]

Pericoloso said:

Seeing that list available for Fiesta ST ,there was an ST in orange at the local Ford dealer till recently ,dealer now shut down .

Maybe it was ST line instead , or an old model don't know .