What ever happened to brightly coloured cars?

What ever happened to brightly coloured cars?

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Justin Case

2,195 posts

133 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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At least small cars still come in bright colours smile I have retreated to my study while Mrs C (bright red Kia Rio) and her friend (bright red Suzuki Swift) are chatting in the lounge. Neither of hem are car persons or deliberately chose a red car, but they both like the look of their cars and are pleased that they are not grey.

What sort of person is so sad that they will live with a boring colour for three or more years just so they can save a few pounds on the monthly payments frown

geeks

9,121 posts

138 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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EarlofDrift said:
MGirl said:
My car
I believe that colour is BMW Tailgate Blue hehe
Superlightdaa said:


Love a bit of colour!
and I believe this colour is BMW Tailgate baby poo hehe

rgw2012

598 posts

142 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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Another bright colour supporter here smile


lukeharding

2,930 posts

88 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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WonkeyDonkey said:
Having a bright yellow car is great for easily finding it in the car park.

Probably the only thing it's good for haha
Oh I don't know... yellow cars always make me happy, its a happy colour.

rgw2012 said:
Another bright colour supporter here smile

That looks great.

Since we're all adding our brightly coloured cars...


UTH

8,865 posts

177 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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lukeharding said:
WonkeyDonkey said:
Having a bright yellow car is great for easily finding it in the car park.

Probably the only thing it's good for haha
Oh I don't know... yellow cars always make me happy, its a happy colour.

rgw2012 said:
Another bright colour supporter here smile

That looks great.

Since we're all adding our brightly coloured cars...

Unsurprisingly I'm a big fan of both of these!

RDMcG

Original Poster:

19,096 posts

206 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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lukeharding said:
WonkeyDonkey said:
Having a bright yellow car is great for easily finding it in the car park.

Probably the only thing it's good for haha
Oh I don't know... yellow cars always make me happy, its a happy colour.

rgw2012 said:
Another bright colour supporter here smile

That looks great.

Since we're all adding our brightly coloured cars...

An Aston that it not grey...Yes!!!!!

EJH

932 posts

208 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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Unknown_User said:
Lovely! I love a yellow car.
I'm with the OP here and find all the dull colours rather er.... dull. I read an article a while back and it suggested that when customers choose the colour of their car, it can reflect their confidence in their financial situation and future. I'll see if I can find it.
Miami blue car here btw. driving
I have just ordered a car and the 3 colours in contention were red, yellow or Miami blue; the brightest of the choices available. Ordered in red, ultimately, but really like all 3 of them.

We also have an Abarth 500 in a (now) very dull battleship (sorry, Campovolo) grey, albeit with red stripes and mirrors. When we bought the car in 2009, it was an unusual colour but it's a relatively common colour now. Colours seem to have got much drearier in recent years; I was looking at BMWs for my mother and it's all black, white, silver and a variety of dull colours now (at least for the cooking models).

irocfan

40,152 posts

189 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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well we're doing our best to brighten up the roads. I've got a an Orange SS Camaro and Mrs Iroc has a yellow SLC, the run-around is a bronze Clubman

Tim bo

1,956 posts

139 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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RDMcG said:
Here in Canada it is like the UK...three colour variations, black, white and silver.

Was in a Porsche dealership a while ago and thought I had lost my sense of colour and was only seeing in black and white.
You must go to a different Porsche dealership to me.








Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

185 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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I took my 83 year old father to a Mercedes dealer about a year ago to collect his bright red A35. As we pulled in to the car park, we remarked that if we spotted his car it would be like that scene in Schindler's List, as literallly every car in the lot was monochrome.



BTW my cars are bright blue and lime green, the previous two were red.

aeropilot

34,299 posts

226 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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Johnnytheboy said:
I took my 83 year old father to a Mercedes dealer about a year ago to collect his bright red A35. As we pulled in to the car park, we remarked that if we spotted his car it would be like that scene in Schindler's List, as literallly every car in the lot was monochrome.
Back in the late 2000's my then elderly mother had an A-Class Merc, and as she didn't really understand car dealers, I used to book/drop off/puck up her Merc for her. It was a large dealer in NW London, with probably 30-40 used cars parked outside and a showroom of 8-10 inside. One car outside was red, everything else was a shade of monochrome, as was all the ones in the showroom. Behind the service desk though was a big colour chart of paint chip panels arranged by colour shade in a rainbow strip, so I asked the manager why did they have that on the wall, it seemed a bit pointless, when every bloody car on their site was monochrome apart from one?
Cue much spluttering and finding something else to do very quickly.....


Toonshorty

111 posts

103 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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When I bought my M135i I remember the chap at the dealers trying to talk me out of going for the valencia orange paint and that I should just get it in silver/grey instead as it would be easier to sell later on.

Safe to say I ignored him and went all in on the valencia orange and oyster leather combo. Five years later and I still don't regret it one bit.

If nothing else it adds a splash of colour to an otherwise monotone work carpark.

Nickbrapp

5,277 posts

129 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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Yesterday I saw a bright orange 70 plate 911, and a bright red cayenne coupe, then 10 mins later a red 911 taga, then I drove past a green Aston DBX, and a yellow Audi S3


They still exist, just main stream cars usually charge more for coloured metallic paint beyond the free black and white

Like the ford eco sport, yellow is the free colour so you see loads.

Chubbyross

4,537 posts

84 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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Personally I love my weekend car in silver. Silver can be great if it’s on a decent car (thinking Aston Martin DB5/6 here, for example) and kept in tip-top condition with machine polishing and decent protection, otherwise it can look dull. Saying that my next fun car is definitely going to be more colourful, although anything but yellow. Can’t stand yellow cars for some reason. My workhorse is black and I will never own a black car again. It’s a nightmare to keep clean and shows every scratch. Plus it’s impossible to find in car parks.

ambuletz

10,690 posts

180 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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Don't think we can consider sports cars/supercars on this. it's well established that sports cars will have bright colours, superminis will have them too, to appeal to young people and females. However it's everything in between that has no colour anymore. Everything from a focus to an s-class.

Baldchap

7,507 posts

91 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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Red cars are faster. wink

UTH

8,865 posts

177 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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Chubbyross said:
Personally I love my weekend car in silver. Silver can be great if it’s on a decent car (thinking Aston Martin DB5/6 here, for example) and kept in tip-top condition with machine polishing and decent protection, otherwise it can look dull. Saying that my next fun car is definitely going to be more colourful, although anything but yellow. Can’t stand yellow cars for some reason. My workhorse is black and I will never own a black car again. It’s a nightmare to keep clean and shows every scratch. Plus it’s impossible to find in car parks.
My poor 19 year old silver evo does look very tired indeed. ONE day I will get a full respray and get it back to the glory it deserves being a very rare special edition Evo 6, so I do look forward to seeing it in its former glory.

As for yellow cars, it seems you either love them or hate them. I got mocked for my Corvette by some, and then others think it's one of the best things they've ever seen.

kevinon

799 posts

59 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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I had a 993 targa in Polar Silver, which suited it fine.
But Lazulite Blue on my my 20 year old SLK really works, IMHO.

Love a good, definite colour to better appreciate the shape of a car.

kambites

67,461 posts

220 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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UTH said:
As for yellow cars, it seems you either love them or hate them. I got mocked for my Corvette by some, and then others think it's one of the best things they've ever seen.
yes I used to get a very mixed set of reactions to my old Nugget Yellow Corrado.

aeropilot

34,299 posts

226 months

Thursday 3rd September 2020
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Toonshorty said:
When I bought my M135i I remember the chap at the dealers trying to talk me out of going for the valencia orange paint and that I should just get it in silver/grey instead as it would be easier to sell later on.

Safe to say I ignored him and went all in on the valencia orange and oyster leather combo. Five years later and I still don't regret it one bit.
Likewise when I ordered my E82 135i back in 2011, sales guy was astonished that I wanted Bluewater with Coral Red interior, and tried very hard to talk me out of it. When it arrived and was in PDI, he called me to say, that he was wrong, everyone in the dealership had been down to look at it saying how great it looked.
After they stopped making them, he told me on a visit to the dealer he checked with BMW in Germany, and they said it was the only Bluewater/Coral Red 135i they built for the UK which he was quite proud of, even thought he tried to talk me out of it laugh