Car fashion fads

[alangla]

talksthetorque said:

Miserablegit said:

There was a new Stinger GT at the station today and I noticed it had bronze door mirror caps and vent trims - it reminded me of the recent article on the new Seat Cupra wotsit with bronze bits and I wondered if all car stylists holidayed together and that is how we end up with new fads/tat that appear at the same time.

You can buy whole Peugeots in a stty brown colour now.
Why would you?

On the subject of Peugeots, I had a brand new 2008 as a hire car a couple of months ago (not my choice, I asked for a Corsa sized thing & this turned up. It only had 5 miles on it as well). It had a kind of branch type pattern on the ceiling that lit up when you put the headlights on. In the pantheon of pointless things on cars, that's got to be the most pointless I've ever seen.

[Truckosaurus]

talksthetorque said:

You can buy whole Peugeots in a stty brown colour now.
Why would you?

Makes a change from dull silver and white. Also, if you have leased or PCPed the car then you DGAF on resale value if/when fashions change.

[Olas]

Truckosaurus said:

Makes a change from dull silver and white. Also, if you have leased or PCPed the car then you DGAF on resale value if/when fashions change.

Sepang Bronze started the poo inspired colour palette - luckily it hasn’t spread too far..

[Joe5y]

Nickbrapp said:

Black on black on black, so boring

Black interiors need to die
Black wheels need to die

100% agree with this.

[Leon R]

Olas said:

Truckosaurus said:

Makes a change from dull silver and white. Also, if you have leased or PCPed the car then you DGAF on resale value if/when fashions change.

Sepang Bronze started the poo inspired colour palette - luckily it hasn’t spread too far..

I really like Sepang bronze

It would be my colour of choice on an E63 or Z4.

[Court_S]

rallycross said:

HTP99 said:

Car bra's, wtf are they all about!

Yep utterly stupid.

Another vote for these - ridiculous things.

Wind deflectors look ste and seem to be making a comeback.

Diamond cut wheels (never, ever again)

From way back, Oakley sticks and Fido stickers on cars.

[2Btoo]

ae2006 said:

BigGingerBob said:

diamond cut with black wheels.

I am still surprised by the diamond cut wheel trend. Almost every mainstream manufacturer has them so they must be quite popular. In my opinion they make almost every car look cheap and a lot worse, like a very cheap toy car where the wheels are just printed on so that it looks a bit like rims:

Ugh!

You're right, but I had never seen it like this before!

[basicasic]

LuS1fer said:

One thing I like to do is watch the Gerry Anderson UFO re-runs just to hoot with laughter at the lack of imagination it had about the "21st Century" - huge standard landline phones attached with wires, massive computer tapes, massive buttons and lights, still using cassettes, women still mainly secretaries or admin, hilarious.

However, it is Ed Straker's car that truly blows your argument. This "lash-up" of a "futuristic car" (smoky petrol engine, no head restraints, it's not even an SUV) shows how bad a big car with small wheels really looks...

I'm afraid I'm going to have to revoke your sci-fi 'nerd card'.

UFO was filmed in 1969!70 and was actually set in the future .......... 1980. So no mobile phones, no SUVs, no huge wheels, no SSDs or hard drives, no LCD touchscreen displays, no digital anything. I remember seeing Straker's car in the early 70s as a kid and being awestruck at how futuristic it looked.

It all looks pretty crappy now of course, but for 1980 the show was not far off I'd say.

[LuS1fer]

Not a sci fi nerd but never knew that. Mind you, the same 3 UFOs in every invasion ( only ever 3, they never learnt) and the 3 single missile interceptors were still hilarious.

[HTP99]

Oohh, just thought of another, covering one panel in stickers, whether it be a wing, a quarter panel or just the fuel flap.

Also there used to be a trend of having a list of the makes of modifications that have been fitted to a car, usually on the front door.

[Digby]

Be someone...

[pmanson]

Leon R said:

Olas said:

Truckosaurus said:

Makes a change from dull silver and white. Also, if you have leased or PCPed the car then you DGAF on resale value if/when fashions change.

Sepang Bronze started the poo inspired colour palette - luckily it hasn’t spread too far..

I really like Sepang bronze

It would be my colour of choice on an E63 or Z4.

Must admit I'm considering brown for my XC90. The colour palette is very limited - black, black 2x white, multiple grey and a mild blue colour

[10126 Torino]

HTP99 said:

Oohh, just thought of another, covering one panel in stickers, whether it be a wing, a quarter panel or just the fuel flap.

AKA stickerbomb.

[Weekendrebuild]

Olas said:

Pressed metal plates are still common amongst the classic Vw crowd, all the chavs nowadays have ‘4d’ plates.
The name ‘4d plate’ automatically makes me want to disembowel and incinerate anyone whose car has them. It’s the lack of basic understanding that does it.

Really if anything they are a
Easier to read ??

[S2r]

"Hidden' rear door handles on 4/5 door cars, meaning that they're normally set too high for kids to reach properly, examples include Alfa 156, Honda Civic FK2, Toyota CHR to name a couple.

[talksthetorque]

10126 Torino said:

HTP99 said:

Oohh, just thought of another, covering one panel in stickers, whether it be a wing, a quarter panel or just the fuel flap.

AKA stickerbomb.

You can actually get stickerbomb as a vinyl wrap. Just in case you want to make it much harder to apply than individual stickers.

[Strudul]

So said:

Louvred rear windows.

Vinyl roofs.

"My other car is a Porsche" sticker on a tatty beast, when owning a Porsche was still rare.

2/3

[Pericoloso]

talksthetorque said:

10126 Torino said:

HTP99 said:

Oohh, just thought of another, covering one panel in stickers, whether it be a wing, a quarter panel or just the fuel flap.

AKA stickerbomb.

You can actually get stickerbomb as a vinyl wrap. Just in case you want to make it much harder to apply than individual stickers.

Did someone mention stickerbomb ?

[EarlofDrift]

WJNB said:

I hang a large pink dice from the interior mirror when all lined up at concours car shows to distance myself from the sad polishers who take it all so seriously.
Maybe I'll add a sticker across the top of the windscreen KEVIN & KIMBERLY

Those names across the top of windscreens always reminded me of this now very un-PC scene

https://youtu.be/QKVt_aTI2MY

[jamei303]

8 years since someone first posted these on here and yet hula-hoop wheels with painted-on tyres are still desirable.