Why did you choose a boring car colour?
Discussion
We all love a nice blue sky, and many of us positively worship the yellow sun-orb when it makes a passing appearance in the UK. Green trees in full bloom create a naturally calming landscape and the sight of a hot woman in a red dress will have your neck craning like a meerkat. The very thought of a varied and newly stocked bowl of colourful fruits is positively mouth-watering. And there just aren’t enough purple things in the world.
Yet, when it comes to spending a mini-mortgage at a car dealership, the colours that we choose are largely quite in contrast to every rainbow felt tip pen selection that we would choose to colour in a picture as a child.
You’ve made the decision – it’s time for a new car. As the brochure is presented to you on the table, you can begin to narrow down your options. You might agonise the choice for several days – such is the variety on offer, but finally, you have your handful of top choices; Do you go for Dishcloth Grey? Or maybe Raincloud Grey? Prison-Wall Grey is option choice too and of course, there is the standard Dark Grey, Mid Grey and Lighter Grey, but what about the special premium colour (Sweaty-Underpants Grey) instead - complete with extra grey sparkly bits for another five hundred quid? These are all good finalists – but you could go really radical for there is also the option of white, premium white, jet black or metallic black instead. Oh, the choice. But in a moment of madness you might decide that, for the next five percent of your motoring life, you are going to go with something more radical. Something that really reflects your bright, vibrant, fun loving, happy-go-lucky attitude towards life. You might go for Moondust Silver instead.
As I passed the BMW garage in Leeds today, whilst in traffic I counted that of their twenty road-side cars up for sale, only two of them were of colour (one red, one blue). Every other car was either black, white or a shade of grey – and the trigger for this post.
A quick look at the Porsche Macan colour pallet online (a ‘daily’ type car) and out of ten colours, only two are interesting (one red, one blue). Compare that to the 911 (more of a ‘wish-list’ car) has two reds, an orange, yellow and three blues amongst the greyscale.
If we were given the choice to buy our dream supercar tomorrow, odds on it would be a red Ferrari, a yellow Lamborghini, an orange McLaren or maybe a bright green Porsche GT3. So, if our childhood was all about painting and drawing in vibrant colours and our minds forever enjoying a feast of colour in the world - and our dream cars just as eye popping – why do the majority of us go for what is probably the most depressing, dull colours we possibly could choose for our cars?
Whats your excuse?
Yet, when it comes to spending a mini-mortgage at a car dealership, the colours that we choose are largely quite in contrast to every rainbow felt tip pen selection that we would choose to colour in a picture as a child.
You’ve made the decision – it’s time for a new car. As the brochure is presented to you on the table, you can begin to narrow down your options. You might agonise the choice for several days – such is the variety on offer, but finally, you have your handful of top choices; Do you go for Dishcloth Grey? Or maybe Raincloud Grey? Prison-Wall Grey is option choice too and of course, there is the standard Dark Grey, Mid Grey and Lighter Grey, but what about the special premium colour (Sweaty-Underpants Grey) instead - complete with extra grey sparkly bits for another five hundred quid? These are all good finalists – but you could go really radical for there is also the option of white, premium white, jet black or metallic black instead. Oh, the choice. But in a moment of madness you might decide that, for the next five percent of your motoring life, you are going to go with something more radical. Something that really reflects your bright, vibrant, fun loving, happy-go-lucky attitude towards life. You might go for Moondust Silver instead.
As I passed the BMW garage in Leeds today, whilst in traffic I counted that of their twenty road-side cars up for sale, only two of them were of colour (one red, one blue). Every other car was either black, white or a shade of grey – and the trigger for this post.
A quick look at the Porsche Macan colour pallet online (a ‘daily’ type car) and out of ten colours, only two are interesting (one red, one blue). Compare that to the 911 (more of a ‘wish-list’ car) has two reds, an orange, yellow and three blues amongst the greyscale.
If we were given the choice to buy our dream supercar tomorrow, odds on it would be a red Ferrari, a yellow Lamborghini, an orange McLaren or maybe a bright green Porsche GT3. So, if our childhood was all about painting and drawing in vibrant colours and our minds forever enjoying a feast of colour in the world - and our dream cars just as eye popping – why do the majority of us go for what is probably the most depressing, dull colours we possibly could choose for our cars?
Whats your excuse?
I wanted a speed yellow 911 but couldn't find one, so went for a red one instead.
I would have had flat black, white, zenith blue or turkish blue if one had turned up with the right spec at a price I could afford. I didn't want silver, grey or dark blue. But when looking to buy an older car you cannot be too picky.
I'd still choose a yellow one over a red one.
I would have had flat black, white, zenith blue or turkish blue if one had turned up with the right spec at a price I could afford. I didn't want silver, grey or dark blue. But when looking to buy an older car you cannot be too picky.
I'd still choose a yellow one over a red one.
Because a lot of people have an eye on resale value and a dog cock red ‘something’ will be harder to shift than a not-dog cock red something, unless it’s something that suits being a lairy colour. And even then, that’s no guarantee ... a smurf blue m3 has a smaller resale market than, say, the boring black. Good luck flogging a phoenix yellow with a kiwi interior
Edited by bigandclever on Thursday 5th July 17:11
My current garage:
Thunder Grey Mini Cooper S with black roof and black leather - bought new but dealer stock car; would have gone for dark blue or dark green
flat black Porsche 997 C2 with black leather - bought used; looks great; right car; right time; right price
dark green Volvo 1800S with cognac leather - just wow !!
I always do enjoy seeing other cars in bright colours, but at the end of the day I prefer more subtle colours.
I think my favorite colour would be dark blue. Not in the spectrum of white to black, but still subtle an classy.
Thunder Grey Mini Cooper S with black roof and black leather - bought new but dealer stock car; would have gone for dark blue or dark green
flat black Porsche 997 C2 with black leather - bought used; looks great; right car; right time; right price
dark green Volvo 1800S with cognac leather - just wow !!
I always do enjoy seeing other cars in bright colours, but at the end of the day I prefer more subtle colours.
I think my favorite colour would be dark blue. Not in the spectrum of white to black, but still subtle an classy.
I have a dark metallic blue Saab dont really like the colour it’s just drab, the silver car was purely because there were no others available second hand, the car I bought new is pearl grey, and my tvr is black with sparkles in it, I owned a yellow car once it was awful every bug fly and animal loved to hug it, 3 deer hits got crashed into 7 times all non fault never ever again would I own a yellow car plus it ended up 50 shades of yellow fecking awful,
Red cars either go flat or the laquer peels off
I don’t really like flat colours just remind me of all the old Cars I had to spend hours and hours mopping, normally I just get a colour I like preferably with a pearl or mettalic etc
And couldn’t really give a fook what anybody else thinks tbh as it’s mainly to please my eyes
I love mettalic grey it looks classy but I don’t love the infinite shades of grey primer, it looks cheap as chips horrid as it comes can’t understand the love at all bet the manufacturers all think anyone getting that are mugs probably buy a thousand litres of it for a fiver
also don’t like matt paint it just looks so s
t I just can’t fathom it tbh it just looks like it has been rubbed down for paint bloody awful
And how am I supposed to polish matt paint ohh but we do a liquid you can put on it to hide all the scratches and other carp that once onit is there for good no thanks !
But alas we all like different stuff, that lovely red sparkle paint is nice like 275cup s and others have, basically I like paint with sparkles and depth, unfortunately unless you buy new you have to go with what’s available
Red cars either go flat or the laquer peels off
I don’t really like flat colours just remind me of all the old Cars I had to spend hours and hours mopping, normally I just get a colour I like preferably with a pearl or mettalic etc
And couldn’t really give a fook what anybody else thinks tbh as it’s mainly to please my eyes
I love mettalic grey it looks classy but I don’t love the infinite shades of grey primer, it looks cheap as chips horrid as it comes can’t understand the love at all bet the manufacturers all think anyone getting that are mugs probably buy a thousand litres of it for a fiver
also don’t like matt paint it just looks so st I just can’t fathom it tbh it just looks like it has been rubbed down for paint bloody awful And how am I supposed to polish matt paint ohh but we do a liquid you can put on it to hide all the scratches and other carp that once onit is there for good no thanks !
But alas we all like different stuff, that lovely red sparkle paint is nice like 275cup s and others have, basically I like paint with sparkles and depth, unfortunately unless you buy new you have to go with what’s available
Edited by loose cannon on Thursday 5th July 17:25
My Jeep GC is white. I originally wanted a deep burgundy metallic that they do and would have ordered that colour. However, they had a 6 month old fully specced up ex-demo with very few miles on the clock at a Massive saving over new. I really wanted the red, but not as much as the savings
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