What ever happened to brightly coloured cars?

What ever happened to brightly coloured cars?

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dandare

957 posts

254 months

Tuesday 29th September 2020
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AC43 said:
dandare said:
It is quite depressing, but people are sheep
Or maybe they just don't want brightly coloured cars. I've always prefered cars in sliver, grey or dark metallics.

My current two are in dark blue metallic. Four of the previous five were in variations of silver or grey.

It doesn't make me a sheep. I just much prefer non-shouty colours.

My OH is the same - she finds a lot of Fiat 500 colours challenging. My mission was to find her one in dark blue or grey.
I meant that I find a lack of colour in the World mildly depressing, and that black or silver cars are the fashion, which is what people mainly follow.
It's interesting that babies go for brightly coloured things (nature?), whereas adults, in some places, go for black or silver (nurture, peer pressure, simply taste, or something else?).

You can choose whichever colour you like, or are told to like. I don't always steer away from black or silver, by the way.

paradigital

864 posts

152 months

Tuesday 29th September 2020
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Leftfootwonder said:
err, what colour is that TT?
Moro blue.

Leftfootwonder

1,116 posts

58 months

Tuesday 29th September 2020
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paradigital said:
Leftfootwonder said:
err, what colour is that TT?
Moro blue.
Very well then. getmecoat



paradigital

864 posts

152 months

Tuesday 29th September 2020
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Leftfootwonder said:
Very well then. getmecoat
I don't escape completely untouched. The wife's Skoda Yeti is silver, but I had little to no choice in the matter!

s3dave

199 posts

158 months

Tuesday 29th September 2020
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Just come across this thread, suprised this colour has not appeared yet

Colour is cascade indego. Seen this colour on a Metro and it looked terrible!

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bluemason

1,070 posts

123 months

Tuesday 29th September 2020
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RDMcG

Original Poster:

19,142 posts

207 months

Thursday 1st October 2020
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Seen this morning..a bronze VW convertible with a perfect plate:


foggy

1,159 posts

282 months

Thursday 1st October 2020
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To help keep the kids amused on journeys we’ve instilled the game ‘yellow car bang’ (formerly known as yellow car punch I believe but we’re trying to discourage them from knocking six bells out of one another quite so often...)

Whoever sees any yellow car first shouts said game name and we continue on our merry way, sometimes even keeping a tally. My daughter is a demon at it, it’s surprising just how many yellow cars they spot out on the road.

Mr Tidy

22,327 posts

127 months

Friday 2nd October 2020
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I've only ever bought used cars and find the sea of white, silver, grey and black ones just miserable!

They remind me of when the world looked black and white as my parents only had a used B & W TV. laugh

Back in 2014 I found an Imola Red E46 Compact and in 2016 I got a Montego Blue Z4 Coupe - lovely!




But I've changed them both now and ended up with a Sparkling Graphite 3 Series - very hard to find in a car park - and a Silver Grey Z4 Coupe that is slightly easier because of the shape! But I would have loved to find proper colours. (The blue Z4 is only in shot because I hadn't sold it).


MrsMiggins

2,809 posts

235 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020
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I think this colour works well on mine.


Haltamer

2,455 posts

80 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020
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Was walking back to the car just as the planet came into alignment... How about that for bright biggrin


orangetwist

8 posts

43 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020
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I've got a 2015/64 Aygo in bright orange- as my username suggests Toyota calls this "orange twist".

Everyone else at my sixth form has black/white/navy Fiestas and the like so it's a popular car smile

I think small cars that are "louder" colours are seeing a resurgence whereas bigger cars are slowly moving towards greyscale.

Don1

15,948 posts

208 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020
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Mr Tidy said:
I've only ever bought used cars and find the sea of white, silver, grey and black ones just miserable!

They remind me of when the world looked black and white as my parents only had a used B & W TV. laugh

Back in 2014 I found an Imola Red E46 Compact and in 2016 I got a Montego Blue Z4 Coupe - lovely!




But I've changed them both now and ended up with a Sparkling Graphite 3 Series - very hard to find in a car park - and a Silver Grey Z4 Coupe that is slightly easier because of the shape! But I would have loved to find proper colours. (The blue Z4 is only in shot because I hadn't sold it).

So once again someone posting cars that aren't brightly coloured. Why exactly?

RedAlfa

476 posts

184 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020
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Haltamer said:
Was walking back to the car just as the planet came into alignment... How about that for bright biggrin

Nice!

Justin Case

2,195 posts

134 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020
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Better ask Mazda if you want an answer to the original question. Of the two nearest dealers, 16 out of 50 and 9 out of 30 Mazdas are Soul Red smile

rjfp1962

7,725 posts

73 months

Thursday 22nd October 2020
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Justin Case said:
Better ask Mazda if you want an answer to the original question. Of the two nearest dealers, 16 out of 50 and 9 out of 30 Mazdas are Soul Red smile
That's why I bought one in this colour - Sorry it's not very bright!


aka_kerrly

12,418 posts

210 months

Friday 23rd October 2020
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foggy said:
To help keep the kids amused on journeys we’ve instilled the game ‘yellow car bang’ (formerly known as yellow car punch I believe but we’re trying to discourage them from knocking six bells out of one another quite so often...)

Whoever sees any yellow car first shouts said game name and we continue on our merry way, sometimes even keeping a tally. My daughter is a demon at it, it’s surprising just how many yellow cars they spot out on the road.
I had never heard of this until I got a yellow car about 12 years ago . I felt a little evil as I thought about the many many hours being driven around the UK & France as a kid with my little brothers so many missed opportunities to punch them with a "semi legitimate" reason laugh

We now have a couple of yellow cars .

My brother's solar yellow Toyota Altezza and my dark burgundy pearl Corrado VR6 in the background
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I have a nugget yellow Corrado G60
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Edited by aka_kerrly on Friday 23 October 02:41


Edited by aka_kerrly on Friday 23 October 02:43

lukeharding

2,947 posts

89 months

Friday 23rd October 2020
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s3dave said:
Just come across this thread, suprised this colour has not appeared yet

Colour is cascade indego. Seen this colour on a Metro and it looked terrible!

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|https://thumbsnap.com/oAAyoHG8[/url]
Love that. One of my favourites. Had a Beetle in something similar...

moktabe

912 posts

105 months

Friday 23rd October 2020
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Well.....

It started silver biggrin


DoubleD

22,154 posts

108 months

Friday 23rd October 2020
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Dark grey isn't what I would call brightly coloured.