OT: Talking Cars Tuesday - Colors
Going to a dealership looks a lot like Pleasantville these days, or the Wizard of Oz's Kansas. Per Wikipedia globally over 70% of cars are either white, black, grey, or silver. It's over 75% in North America.
Add the 10% of beige and damn that's boring. Anyone have a car with an actual color anymore? What's the best car color out there? I'd definitely accept certain cars as being best in certain colors. For example, "Red" is a decent answer, "A Porsche 944 had better damn be Guards Red" is a better answer.
My obvious answers:
944/Guards Red
E-Type/British Racing Green (you may say silver but I'll disagree)
Volvo Polestars / Swedish Racing Green
To the Volvo designers, racing green isn't what you think it means.
/s
Oh, and my car is Navy, because the other options were: Black/White/Grey/Silver/Other Silver/Other Gray/Red
So of course I went blue. (Not mine, but same as pictured)
I still think VW needs to come up with some better colors for the Golf R. I'm not crazy about the blue, the black and the silver are boring, and I don't even know what the fourth color is -- white maybe? I know the flash is supposed to be under the hood but I still think they could sex it up a bit.
April 24th, 2019 at 11:49 AM ^
You must not have heard of Spektrum
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a22735797/volkswagen-golf-r-colors-2019/
honestly the newer pearl white is sharp.
I like that orange that ford has fro the SUVs - looks like a different color in the sun.
I have a Flex and sadly it's beige (the price/mileage/options were right) but I like those 2 tone flexes. Yeah, I'm 40, get over it.
honestly the newer pearl white is sharp.
It is.
Until something happens to it.
Here's my public service for the day to save people $$$s I learned the hard way. Pearl white goes on in three coats with three different materials...
... and never the same way twice.
So if you get a little dent, ding, scratch, etc., you cannot just touch it up. It won't match. You have to respray the whole panel for example. So a $20 job turns into a $1,500 job.
I traded in an all black Explorer for one of those orangish explorers. The official name is something like bronze metallic something or other but it basically looks like 3 different colors depending on the day. I’m almost always go all black or Navy Blue and load it full of Michigan stuff. As you can see if my avatar my brother customer painted my tonneau cover on my truck with a huge block M. The explorer is the first vehicle I have purchased out of the last 10 that wasn’t black or blue. I currently have the F150 which is navy blue and an all blacked out newer Ram.
'01 thru '06 era BMW M3 in Laguna Seca Blue
I was going to embed an image of that car but I don’t know how to. That M is my favorite car.
This generation of M3 is my favorite design. I loved it when first saw it and I still love it. I will own one in my lifetime.
Google image search - right click - copy image - paste here
Sexy
Some exotic cars look great in yellow but i’d never get a yellow car.
Biased, but I think these look good in Yellow
I believe that is called Hella yellow or something like that. When I bought my JL I really liked the ocean blue and came close to getting it but ended up with sting gray which I really like. It is gray but not quite the typical gray you see everywhere else.
Well, I tend to agree with Wesley Snipes (on roulette, and) on car colors, so I don't have much to add here.
Is there any easy way to embed images on the new site yet?
I typically just right click "copy" on images and then control-V in the text box and it works. IE11 (hooray work computer)
I searched for a long time to find a 350Z in Daytona Blue, but ultimately had to resort to a Magnetic Black Pearl. It's got a nice shine in the sun, but man is it impossible to keep clean. I made sure with my latest daily driver to find some color - a Mazda 6 in Lapis Blue Metallic.
Color is awesome and it's sad to see so much blah on the roads.
some of the non-compliant colors we have are: blue (dark, very nice), red, that goldish-bronze kind of color, and an orange tractor.
There you go getting some of us all hot and bothered by talking about your tractor again.
Pics please.
no picture of the actual rig. this one is a notch above mine with the major difference being: i don't have a cab on mine. its never bothered me and it would've cost ~$5K more. once in a while when snow plowing on uber-cold/windy days i could see the advantage, but as a rule i prefer it without the cab.
Must make life easier when it comes to tilling. Had to do that with just a tiller every year for between 1-2 acres growing up. Miserable.
for serious plowing i grab my neighbor's 12 bottom plow. that is a monster.
sadly, he is getting out of farming because of some really bad health for he/wife. i am going to have to figure out how to get all my stuff done, find equipment, etc. dunno man, but hopeful it will work out. sad for my neighbor. dark times for him.
Orange (performance) or silver (luxury) is the best color for a car. Black and white are both unappealing because they make any imperfections in the body or finish stand out
Whatever color mine is is the worst. It's somewhere between blue and green, but I'm not sure where exactly
I'm just here to bitch about rv's. I can't stand those cheesy graphics covering most of them. How about some solid colors or even camo as an option? It's like they want the ugly things to stand out more than they already do.
It wasn't always this way, was it? I seem to remember cars being all sorts of different colors when I was younger. I wonder why everything is black, white, and silver now? Resale value maybe?
I admit to being part of the problem. My cars are black and silver. Although I did promise little Hatter that our next car would be blue.
Side note, I saw a Range Rover yesterday. It was slate gray, with a matte finish. It looked like a chalkboard. Never seen anything like that before. I was kinda cool.
I can think of a few potential reasons everything is black white and silver
- because people are boring and don't want to stand out.
- because dealers can sell those to more people than they can colors
- because thats what fleets buy
- because car makers don't offer real colors on many vehicles (check a car configurator sometime)
- because car makers also chage often for the real colors they offer
If you're ever in Detroit, go by the Fiat Chrysler lot near the Jefferson North plant, where a lot of the fleet vehicles ready for distribution sit sometimes. Right now, it's white, silver and black, but with a hideous patch of orange in the middle.
What's a chalkboard?
My current car is a deep red, almost burgundy. My previous car was blue. I definitely prefer something other than the generic white/gray/silver that most cars seem to be.
It's very possible that burgundy is the best car color. Especially for fancy luxury cars.
When I first switched to the Nissan Rogue, it was because the one I went to look at was a paint color called Black Amethyst. In low light, looks black, in bright sunlight, a deep, dark purple. Loved it, but they discontinued it. I've asked about it the last two years, but can't get it, so I went with black for my 2019. It happened to be what they had on the lot that I could take that day, so I went with it.
I'm fairly sure there's a feedback loop on car colors for just that reason. Chicken-or-the-egg question. The automakers make so many black, white, silver, gray cars because that's what people buy. People buy a silver car because that's what's on the lot. And so on.
Personally, I figure I have to look at this car for the next several years. I have to like it. Last thing I want is to regret buying it. So I'm happy to wait a little while for the color I want. If it's not on that dealer's lot, it's on someone else's. The dealer will usually swing a trade. That's what happened when I bought my Escape.....the color I wanted wasn't on that dealer's lot, but he jumped onto the '80s-looking database and found the color and configuration I wanted at some other dealer and said, give us a few days and we'll have it, all we gotta do is give them one in return. Good trade when you think about it. My dealer gets a sale, and the other dealer....probably gets a black one in return that he can offload easier.
I have the exact same GTI, JeepinBen.
2015 SE 6M. Unfortunately I bought it before the performance package was available in the US, but it's still absolutely great. Minimum B+ at everything, if you can only have 1 car it's the best 1 car to have.
I'm about 99% sure that my next car will be a Mk8 GTI
I have the 2015 Autobahn, and I love it. I'm thinking about my next car being the next (Mk8) GTI, too. Anxious to see the upgrades/changes to it, but I'm glad it's not changing until 2020 for my resale value.
I have to put back on my maize block M sticker back on the bumper; used to be on there and then I was rear ended and had the bumper replaced. Now I have the blue block M with the maize outline. It looks slick on the blue car!
A bit off topic, but I could use some advice.
I mentioned a while back getting my late father's '89 Jag XJ and driving back to Nashville. It looks great, but the hood and trunk/boot are a bit faded. Do I put on a new coat, or do I keep the original paint as long as possible?
A really good paint job will probably cost almost as much as that car is worth, unless their value has gone way up recently.
Beautiful cars, terrible quality in that era.
My old truck (2012 Ram 1500 Big Horn) was "fire red." That was the actual color name on the door sticker. A woman driving like an asshole wiped out going 80+ mph in a blizzard and T-boned me on I-94, totaling both our vehicles.
Now my truck (2015 Ram 1500 Big Horn) is charcoal grey. Wifes SUV is .... charcoal grey. Wanted a bright blue truck but didn't have any in stock so my choices were white, black, silver, charcoal grey or that horridly putrid dodge "rusted orange" or "burnt copper" or whatever its called.
Ara Blue Crystal on the Audi RS3
My truck is red and I initially didn't like it, but now it is so easy to find in parking lots that it's grown on me and I'll stick to some form of red for as long as I can just as a practical matter. It does make scratches easy to see, however.
I've had a variety of colors - green, brown, red, silver, black, white, and silver again.
I'll probably stay in the silver camp going forward given a choice. It's not impossible to keep clean like black and doesn't absorb as much heat. It generally looks sharp.
The last speeding ticket I ever got was driving the slowest turtle I ever owned, a Ford Tempo with a 3 speed automatic. Pretty sure it was the red color that did it. I think I'll stick to blending in with boring colors.
I would like something in a
my car is blue. only later did i find out the manufacturer (mitsubishi) refers to this specific blue as 'maizen blue' and was even more pleased with my selection
That's my car. The color is called Scuba Blue. My previous car was a BMW 335Xi in Montego Blue which I really loved. This is the first time I've bought cars in the same color consecutively. The only Audi A5 Sportback I could get in a color other than white/black/grey/silver was Scuba Blue or Matador Red. I wasn't a big fan of the red. So, there's part of the problem. The manufacturers typically don't have many choices other than safe and conservative colors.
Many people buy cars right off the dealer's lot. That's why dealers have so many conservatively colored cars. I guess most people have trouble with color. I have no problems ordering a car to get the color and options I want.
I've been at war with black/white/grey/silver cars for many years. Silver looks good on certain cars and I've actually bought two silver cars (1998 Audi A4, 2006 Acura RL). Over the years, I've owned cars in orange, red, green, and blue. My wife even had a lilac purple Ford Explorer back in the day. She loved that color.
I like lilac. Don’t know if I’d get it for my car, but I have lots of clothes and a pair of shoes in lilac. I’m pretty plain when it comes to car color. Either white, off white, or black.