Weekend Car - Daft Colour?!

[Digger]

Looking at an Elise for the weekend . . . & being a mild-mannered 40-something I'm torn between a nice titanium or something a bit more daft and standout-lairy such as a lime or orange

[TTmonkey]

Buy a silver one, and then get it wrapped. That way, if you cant live with it, you can have it removed.


Would be nice to change the colour yearly.

[Krikkit]

An Elise looks great in all shades to me - there's a lovely dark blue S1 in the classifieds that I've been obsessing about today.

But, being a weekend car, a bright colour is usually preferable. Yellow.

[kambites]

My only major concession to vanity when it comes to cars is that I would never drive anything that was grey, silver, black or white; whether as a weekend car or a daily.

[Matt UK]

I look out on our driveway now and see a black saloon car and a silver MPV.

The garage contains the yellow weekend car

Yeah - weekenders should be a daft colour IMO.

[otolith]

I bought a black one, but would have been perfectly happy with any of the other colours, including the lairy ones.

[AnimalMkIV]

What Kam said.

[monthefish]

Digger said:

40-something ....
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..standout-lairy such as a lime or orange

Yes definitely go for a standout colour.
That'll help stop it looking like a mid-life crisis purchase.

[jimmyVX]

Id say yes definitely, but then my VX220 is moonland grey, which goes against that but still looks fantastic! In my eyes at least!

[Chicane-UK]

Get something funky. Looking out across carparks these days, filled with boring resale-proof dark blue / silver / white / black cars just makes me feel sad.

An Elise should definitely be a jolly colour!

[Digger]

Does this count? Lovely colour, but not daft!

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/l...

[kambites]

Digger said:

Does this count? Lovely colour, but not daft!

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/l...

Better than various variants of grey, but still a bit dull. This is a much better colour:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/l...

[matc]

Silly car....silly colour!

An Elise looks crap in boring colours.

[R.P.M]

My old car, needless to say, daft colour all the way.

[Digger]

kambites said:

Digger said:

Does this count? Lovely colour, but not daft!

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/l...

Better than various variants of grey, but still a bit dull. This is a much better colour:

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/l...

I saw that but no aircon, strange given its the lightest aircon unit. . . nearly ever!

[kambites]

Digger said:

I saw that but no aircon, strange given its the lightest aircon unit. . . nearly ever!

Yes but it's still a heavy thing to dump in a relatively lightweight car (about 30kg, I think). Personally, I hunted down a car without air-con. Useful for demisting in the winter, but I have a dehumidified garage to keep mine dry and if it's hot in the summer I have the roof off.

There are plenty out there anyway, if you want one in a daft colour with a lead weight under the front clam air con, one will show up sooner or later.

[Digger]

I think I'd find it useful as it will be parked on the street! Cheapish retrofit?

[HarryFlatters]

There was a metallic purple one for sale the other day. By far the best colour IMHO.

This one in fact

[kambites]

Digger said:

I think I'd find it useful as it will be parked on the street! Cheapish retrofit?

I suspect not cheap to retro-fit (although I don't know) and if you're keeping it on the street, you're probably right to be looking for it.

[kambites]

HarryFlatters said:

There was a metallic purple one for sale the other day. By far the best colour IMHO.

This one in fact

Aubergine was my first choice of colour, but I couldn't find one in the spec I wanted. By far the nicest colour for an Elise, IMO.