What ever happened to brightly coloured cars?
Discussion
Blakewater said:
BMW Individual is only available on certain models where the factory is setup for Individual, its not available across the board, for example the Spartanburg plant in USA where they build the X3/4/5/6 models is not set up for Individual, nor is the Leipzig plant where they build the 1/2 series.
Tim bo said:
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.
I had an E coupe in that colour.....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.
Looked amazing in sun
and an E klasse estate which is a lovely colour ....
RDMcG said:
You have hit it on the head which is why I posted this. All sorts of colours available from many manufacturers at all price points but no buyers. Very odd.
Admittedly when I ordered my Panamera Turbo in all red the sales manager quietly suggested that it would be VERY bad for resale. I am sure he was right, but I did it anyway.
A quick look on the official used Porsche site shows about 70% of current 911's available for sale are in "plain" colours. Admittedly when I ordered my Panamera Turbo in all red the sales manager quietly suggested that it would be VERY bad for resale. I am sure he was right, but I did it anyway.
Perhaps people are more worried about attracting unwanted attention than picking a colour they really like these days...
Monochrome cars do nothing for me, I deliberately picked a Matador Red (sort of a terracotta-y cherry red) A4 just because it made a boring car a bit more interesting and always like to have "a colour" whenever I look for a car. Rich blues, reds and yellows are my personal favourites.
My dad had a Loire Blue Evoque before his current Santorini Black one, the blue was much nicer - what a lovely colour.
My dad had a Loire Blue Evoque before his current Santorini Black one, the blue was much nicer - what a lovely colour.
Paul_M3 said:
To be honest, when I was looking for my car I was thinking white or black. Luckily the perfect spec came up in red, and once I saw it in the metal I was sold. I must admit that it is actually quite nice not having a silver or black car for a change.
That looks lovely in red.My wife always ends up with red, as she is really not keen on paying extra and red has been the "free" one on quite a few cars.
Our road is a sea of black/grey and silver cars, one family has three black German cars, dowdy versions not anything remotely interesting. next door has a grey SUV, black hatch and silver supermini. Other side has a weird "Cosmic" green Golf Mk4.
Some cars are very colour sensitive though, some just look wrong in a certain shade, yellow can look awesome or utterly revolting.
I really want a properly purple car but they are fairly rare.
Who actually orders all the gold Lexus's ? seems like 90 percent of older models are gold, sometimes with gold badging ?
Our road is a sea of black/grey and silver cars, one family has three black German cars, dowdy versions not anything remotely interesting. next door has a grey SUV, black hatch and silver supermini. Other side has a weird "Cosmic" green Golf Mk4.
Some cars are very colour sensitive though, some just look wrong in a certain shade, yellow can look awesome or utterly revolting.
I really want a properly purple car but they are fairly rare.
Who actually orders all the gold Lexus's ? seems like 90 percent of older models are gold, sometimes with gold badging ?
aka_kerrly said:
Massive yellow car fan here and bold colours in general, I own a Nugget Yellow Corrado G60 an yep it divides opinion. I think there are barely a dozen or so yellow Corrados left in UK from the original few hundred sold, it was a much more popular colour in America as it was used on a lot of the early brochures/adverts.
I think I only ever saw one other yellow Corrado in the fivish years I used it as a daily driver. Mine seems to have been off the road for 5 years now, I assume it's dead. Dog Star said:
Tim bo said:
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.
I had an E coupe in that colour.....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.
Looked amazing in sun
Agreed - looks fab in the sun. That E-Class looks excellent
Edited by Tim bo on Friday 4th September 10:48
Tim bo said:
Deerfoot said:
LunarOne said:
I have one one my driveway and it's definitely no supercar...
Bravo, fantastic choice.
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 .
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