Available in any colour...

[cobra kid]

As long as it's silver

[griffsomething]

Think that’s bad, try looking for a non black over black over black Land Rover product! Not much choice!

[John D.]

Only the Boxster is not available in other colours.

Do I win a prize?

[Easternlight]

Try looking for anything that's not black,white, silver or fking primer grey!
And don't get me started on black roof linings.I don't want to sit under a thunderstorm all the fking time.

[MarkwG]

Easternlight said:

Try looking for anything that's not black,white, silver or fking primer grey!
And don't get me started on black roof linings.I don't want to sit under a thunderstorm all the fking time.

I detest primer grey: if you can't be bothered to paint it, what are the odds the rest is finished?

[Smint]

Primer Grey, car looks 15 years old as it leaves the showroom, just why would you?

Admit i really like silver for its sheer practicality, my ageing Landcruiser is silver, it ages well and hides dirt and dust better than most other colours.

Love seeing burnt orange and really bright yellows on certain cars, they look great, that metallic deep red Mazda and Renault use is stunning, but my favourite colour of all time is the darkest metallic green, perfected by Merc with their GreenBlack, always promised myself a really dark green car but very unlikely to happen now.

[Nickp82]

The Elise is blue, albeit silvery blue

[fflump]

Smint said:

Primer Grey, car looks 15 years old as it leaves the showroom, just why would you?

Admit i really like silver for its sheer practicality, my ageing Landcruiser is silver, it ages well and hides dirt and dust better than most other colours.

Love seeing burnt orange and really bright yellows on certain cars, they look great, that metallic deep red Mazda and Renault use is stunning, but my favourite colour of all time is the darkest metallic green, perfected by Merc with their GreenBlack, always promised myself a really dark green car but very unlikely to happen now.

I agree- Midnight Emerald Metallic is cool.

[J4CKO]

MarkwG said:

Easternlight said:

Try looking for anything that's not black,white, silver or fking primer grey!
And don't get me started on black roof linings.I don't want to sit under a thunderstorm all the fking time.

I detest primer grey: if you can't be bothered to paint it, what are the odds the rest is finished?

You do realise its paint, not primer ? The car is finished as any other.

Its a colour that is offered like any other, some people like it, my missus chose a TT in a sort of primer grey, called Chronos grey, it is a sort of flat grey metallic if that makes sense, and depending on light it seems to go different colours, Daytona grey is the flat version.

[OMITN]

Half of those cars come from the era when silver was the predominant colour. Just as we’ve since had white, metallic red and “murdered out” black.

Since everything goes around, I’d really like silver for our next family car.

[Smint]

fflump said:

I agree- Midnight Emerald Metallic is cool.

drool, i'd spend half my life polishing and admiring it.

[LuS1fer]

My Mustang is silver which was not my first choice. However, after a series of black cars, I had come to the end of my black period and the Mustang has a red interior to offset it.

It is growing on me, after 20 years but I always get tempted to put Martini livery on it and possibly regret it.

[Deranged Rover]

griffsomething said:

Think that’s bad, try looking for a non black over black over black Land Rover product! Not much choice!

That's just being silly. Land Rover has a very wide and varied colour palette, which includes:

- Black
- Light Black
- Dark Black
- Matt Black
- Sparkly Dark Black
- Dark Grey
- Very Dark Grey
- REALLY Dark Grey
- Dark Blue
- Mid Dark Blue
- Very Dark Blue
- Dark Blue/Black
- Very Very Dark Grey/Blue

Something there for everyone, I'm sure!

[Dashnine]

I’m thinking about a new Cupra Formentor and while other Cupras seem to have more interesting colours, the Formentor goes from White to Black via Primer Grey (also available matte), there’s no Silver. The single, free colour is an odd petrol blue/green and there’s a £2K matt Bronze. The new 2026 colour is a very dark purple (Dark Void would you believe).

No red (pre-facelift model had a red), no light or dark blue metallics, no green (Forest Green as per the Born VZ is a nice colour).

What’s going on, are we all supposed to be looking at and driving our cars while depressed and gloomy like the paint?

[SkodaIan]

I saw a new Renault 5 for the first time this morning. It was bright yellow, a colour I've not seen on a brand new ordinary car for ages.

It looked really good, and a very welcome relief from the sea of dreary grey new cars from everyone else. Renault also appear to do that car in bright green so perhaps there is going to be a change in fashion at last.....

[the-norseman]

There are a few car colours i'd never consider, silver being one of them, the others are pink, light blue (silvery blue) that I can think of.

[LuS1fer]

SkodaIan said:

I saw a new Renault 5 for the first time this morning. It was bright yellow, a colour I've not seen on a brand new ordinary car for ages.

It looked really good, and a very welcome relief from the sea of dreary grey new cars from everyone else. Renault also appear to do that car in bright green so perhaps there is going to be a change in fashion at last.....

I have seen a yellow one and while I think the car is way too big to be a 5, it looked OK. However, the green one I saw was vile, with a red roof stripe and the ugliest wheels ever created.

The other day, I saw an Alpine version in metallic blue. Again, it looks too bloated but it was a far better colour. Didn't see the wheels though.

The problem with bright colours, like the yellow and the orange MG4s, is that they become jarring after a fairly short period (although the uncluttered nature of a signal yellow Escort Mk 2 still works) and, for me, metallic royal blue has always been my favourite, like the Fiesta ST Mk7.

[CT05 Nose Cone]

The Elise and Boxster just look wrong in silver, you buy a sports car to stand out from the crowd and pick the most boring colour possible for it.

[theicemario]

These days it's a million shades of grey or the token blue/red. Then you have the "greens" and "blues" which have been moved along the colour scale to render them an almost-primer-grey.

Saw an (heavily modified) orange T230 Celica cruising around town at night the other day and just thought "wow, that looks ace".
Whatever happened to, you know, vibrant, interesting colours?

GreatGrey Britain

[Glenn63]

Deranged Rover said:

griffsomething said:

Think that’s bad, try looking for a non black over black over black Land Rover product! Not much choice!

That's just being silly. Land Rover has a very wide and varied colour palette, which includes:

- Black
- Light Black
- Dark Black
- Matt Black
- Sparkly Dark Black
- Dark Grey
- Very Dark Grey
- REALLY Dark Grey
- Dark Blue
- Mid Dark Blue
- Very Dark Blue
- Dark Blue/Black
- Very Very Dark Grey/Blue

Something there for everyone, I'm sure!

Plus the 15 minimum other colours that are available that you’ve left out. Not LR’s fault people are to scared to choose anything but black and grey.

Porsche can literally do any colour you want and people still choose grey or silver, same with Bentley and their interiors, but no, black leather please, the UK are far to worried about others opinions to dare choose something that may slightly stand out.

Edited by Glenn63 on Friday 22 August 11:34