What ever happened to brightly coloured cars?

[Skyedriver]

Hate the three colours silver, black and grey.
There's a car that I would probably have bought (Hillman Imp) but it's painted in a Toyota grey colour and TBH I just can't face the idea of going into the garage and seeing it so I'm passing it up.
Last car (TVR Chimaera) was yellow

[V8 Stang]

Another Bright yellow car here

[blue_haddock]

When I saw the available colours before ordering my caddy last year there was only one option......

[kambites]

Skyedriver said:

Hate the three colours silver, black and grey.

Same here, although I'd also add white to the list.

[8Speed]

Baldchap said:

Red cars are faster.

Correct

[Tim bo]

Mercedes AMG are particularly monochrome.

C63 AMG can be specced in three different shades of grey, three different shades of silver, 2 types of black, 2 types of white, and blue.

I went for blue.

[J4CKO]

My BMW is a fairly bright Blue (Estoril) and we have two bright red ones, one Fiesta and one Fiestas ST.

Oh, and the front door is bright,monkey bum pink.

Try buying some models that arent in really drab colours, I think Mercedes in the 2000's only sold silver ones.

And where we live, so many houses with two premium SUV's, both the same colour, sometimes the same model, or say a Grey Evoque and Black RR Sport, always diesels, sure they are very nice but house after house with that, I suppose its a chicken/egg situation, they dont make the colours as people dont buy them so you cant buy one. You do see the odd one in a more adventurous colour, so they must make some.

Edited by J4CKO on Thursday 3rd September 19:41

[UTH]

V8 Stang said:

Another Bright yellow car here

Our cars next to each other would look epic!

[Gibby88]

Extra points for a colourful estate

Edited by Gibby88 on Thursday 3rd September 21:23

[ambuletz]

Gibby88 said:

Extra points for a colourful estate ??

yes but you don't get these bright colours on specs that are common, such as zetec, SE, etc..

[TheFungle]

Hello

[Davie]

I had a yellow Volvo 850 for a while followed by a gold V70 but as nice as they were, they were both a bit too "look at me!" and so I reverted back to black followed by grey followed by brown. Which ironically is pretty much the history of my lifestyle wker walking trouser colour choices too.

[RDMcG]

Sadly not mine, but this was the best car I have ever driven, and of course....yellow


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[HD Adam]

2 of mine

[UTH]

Starting to feel a "colourful cars of PistonHeads" meetup forming. When we're allowed in 2023.

[anonymous-user]

RDMcG said:

Here in Canada it is like the UK...three colour variations, black, white and silver.

I was in Canada last year and whilst travelling along a major road (Toronto towards Hamilton/Niagara) I commented how all the cars were grey/silver/white and how bland it was.

Got back to the UK and it dawned on me it's the same over here (+black). I think it had just crept up on me so not noticed it here in the UK. I think there is going to be a "back lash" against it and bright colours will return, my next car will be colourful.

[CrutyRammers]

Hey, it's a lot better than the noighties. It really was grey, dark grey, or silver for quite some time.
Mine are bright green, BRG, and white...but only because the red one got nicked

[ChrisnChris]

Time for another red one;

My last "workhorse" cars have been gold, red, blue, and green. I must confess the current shed is silver

[Blakewater]

People have been brainwashed into thinking that anything other than black, grey or silver will devalue a car and make it hard to sell on, so they choose a dull colour even if they're getting the car on a PCP with a guaranteed future value and no intention to sell it on privately.

Also, people tend to buy what the dealership has in stock and the dealership buys in colours that might not be anyone's first choice but won't offend anyone to the point of them being deal breakers. Then it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy that any interesting colour a car is offered in at launch is soon discontinued through lack of demand. I've seen a few interesting colours on cars dropped after a year or two. Nice shades of blue and red for the Volkswagen Arteon and a nice purple on the Volkswagen Up! for example.

With premium brands, you can have any colour you like inside and out if you pay enough. The interesting options lie in the expensive upgrade packages.

Audi has Audi Exclusive.

https://www.audi.com/en/experience-audi/models-and...

You can even go to a special showroom and look at paint, leather, steering wheel and alloy wheel samples.

https://www.audi.de/de/foren/en/audi-forum-neckars...

BMW has BMW Individual

https://discover.bmw.co.uk/iframes/individual-visu...

Mercedes Benz has Designo, though doesn't seem to offer the options it once did. It used to offer colour changing paint and granite trim.

https://www.mercedes-benz.co.uk/passengercars/merc...

Porsche has Porsche Exclusive Manufaktur

https://www.porsche.com/uk/accessoriesandservice/e...

Jaguar Land Rover has Special Vehicle Operations and still do colour changing Spectral paint. I regularly see a Range Rover around with colour changing paint.

https://www.jaguar.co.uk/about-jaguar/special-vehi...

With any of these manufacturers, if you want something that isn't even in the expensive catalogue, you can pay even more for a one off colour matched to your sample.

Access to these bespoke options also depends on the knowledge of them that the dealer you visit has, their ability to get the build slots for them and their will to try, as it might mean an extended wait for your car and the risk of the dealer being stuck with something that has pink paint and green leather if you back out of the deal.

This Land Rover dealer in Leeds, for example, made a special effort to obtain SVO cars in interesting colour and option combinations and has become an official SVO specialist.

https://www.am-online.com/news/dealer-news/2019/09...

[RDMcG]

HD Adam said:

2 of mine

Just excellent!!