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We were driving home the other night and Darllenwr said that most cars he saw these days were either black, grey or silver. This started me looking at the cars we passed, and sure enough, nearly all of them were dark colours - if not black, then dark blue, dark grey, dark purple, dark green, or white, grey or silver. The few exceptions seemed to be red. Has anyone else noticed this? Is it purely a "pond" thing? Is it regional? Does it say anything about the state of the country?

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It says a lot of people don't seem to care if they are visible in fog or twighlight - I find tarmac coloured vehicles especially hard to understand.

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At least in the States half of all cars are silver, white, or black, in descending popularity.

The article suggests that we tend to associate silver with cutting edge design; no wonder luxury cars are almost always silver in advertisements.

There is also the consideration of resale value. That school-bus yellow car may look good to you, but if you ever need to trade it in or sell it, you are likely to get less for it than you would if it were black or silver.

What I want to know is, why was aqua blue discontinued as a color? You see lots of old pickups that seem to never move from driveways in aqua blue, but I don't think you will see it on a car that is less than 30 years old.

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quote:
Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:

The article suggests that we tend to associate silver with cutting edge design; no wonder luxury cars are almost always silver in advertisements.

For a while I've been wanting to park identical cars in different colours in a car park, and measure the temperature rise inside the cabin. I'm curious as to how much worse a black one really is.
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I think because aqua blue is, like surgical appliance pink, strongly associated with catheters bedpans and other worrying objects.

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In SoCal white is pretty big, although people still often buy dark colors. The difference between black and white is notable when you come to get into your car which has been sitting out in the 90F sun for a few hours. Black and dark colors might be a good choice in a land where temps are chilly much of the year.

A sample parking lot in Los Angeles.

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I've noticed this: blues, black, silver, reds and endless variations on grey. Very rarely green. Never brown.

I'm not one to talk: in the last 23 years we've had two black cars and the current one which is, apparently, 'Midnight Sky' - ie a slightly lavenderish dark grey.

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Do you not worry about visibility ?

[ 06. July 2015, 20:51: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]

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quote:
Originally posted by Lyda*Rose:
In SoCal white is pretty big, although people still often buy dark colors. The difference between black and white is notable when you come to get into your car which has been sitting out in the 90F sun for a few hours. Black and dark colors might be a good choice in a land where temps are chilly much of the year.

A sample parking lot in Los Angeles.

Thought that LC's experiment must have been done. So did a Google search and found that California actually considered banning black cars because the extra heat causes extra AC use, therefore more pollutants in the air.

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quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink.:
Do you not worry about visibility ?

Only to the extent of finding it again in the supermarket car park.
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I drive a bright red vw polo now - because I didn't want another silver car. And I used to drive one of these in green like this one. and a vicar I know drives one of these - which is several colours

[ 06. July 2015, 21:34: Message edited by: geroff ]

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There is also the issue that the car companies limit the available colors. Two cars ago, I really wanted a green car, but green was not an option, so I went with grey.

Then some years later I was in the market for a new car and this time got a nice forest green. I loved it! When that car wore out, I was astounded that the vehicle type I wanted came in a grand total of 4 colors: White, Red, Grey and Black. That is all. It is no wonder to me why it seems like there is no variety in car colors: no variety is offered!!!!

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I think most cars here are grey or silver, followed by dark blue or black. There are very few bright coloured cars.
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Around here, white can be a visibility issue - in winter! I was always advised to avoid white or black, for visibility reasons. I've never had a choice, though - I've only ever bought used cars from private sellers. My first was scum green (an '81 Reliant), my second, burgundy, my third, gunmetal grey, my fourth, white, and my current car is burgundy again.

I've always been amused by that Henry Ford quote (in the thread title), and always think about the 12-pack of different shades of black markers I still have somewhere...2 or 3 variations based on how jet black of a black it was, and the rest were things like brown-black, blue-black, red-black... As anyone knows who (like me) tends to dress mostly in black, it's really hard to match blacks!

So I guess if I had a choice, I'd opt for any of those off-blacks. You know, the shimmery paint that looks black but has a sparkle of another color in it. I live in the city, so visibility's not an issue for me at all. Plus, when it's dark out, I use headlights. [Razz]

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I have always gone for red where possible (though had bright metallic green for a while) as I fear being rear ended in bad weather. If I could flouresce like I used to on my motorbike I'd be happier.

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Actually, it turns out what I really want is a chrome Lamborghini with gull wing doors.

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Nephew Person came home with his first ever motorbike - all black, he tends to wear black clothes and also has a black helmet. I have suggested that he gets some reflective tape bits stuck on at various places.

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I recently took delivery of a new Toyota Yaris in what they describe as Island Blue

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As Lyda Rose says, white and silver cars predominate here in So Cal, and there are not a few black cars as well, plus the very light green Priuses and I hate them all. I drove a bright red Honda Civic for years, and recently replaced it with a new Honda Fit which the manufacturer thinks is Mystic Yellow Pearl and which I think is daisy yellow. It's very cheerful looking! And I can find it in parking lots.
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I’ve been wondering that for a long time – why buy grey cars? They look cheap and the colour is nondescript. And there are so many! I looked out on our car park this morning and counted 11 grey and white cars and one coloured car (mine). Go into any car park and the greys and blacks all look dull and similar.

Life is too short to waste it driving something boring. Get yellow if you want to feel a bit of sunshine (or you just like custard), drive something that reminds you of a purple aubergine, sky blue to remind you of holidays in the Mediterranean, red for a bit of vibrancy, orange simply for the fun of it, green for those enjoyable weekends you spend in the countryside. Let it be a bit of a fantasy and a colour that makes you feel good looking at it. You may be spending your time driving to work on a dreary route so why not perk yourself up a bit? There’s too much drabness around.

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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
I’ve been wondering that for a long time – why buy grey cars? They look cheap and the colour is nondescript.

They are also harder to see when it's pissing down with rain.

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In my case, because it was available and I could get a bike in the back.

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I read a while ago that silver was the most popular colour with people buying new cars, but the least popular with people buying second hand cars. Red, I think, was the most popular for second hand buyers. Maybe people buying new cars are fixed on the (clearly incorrect) idea that neutral is a good way to go.

I sat in a car dealership last year with a very large colour chart on the wall, and counted something absurd like 30 different shades of silver/grey/champagne out of a total of around 50 colours.

When I bought a new car about 6 years ago there was a very limited colour range - silver, dark grey, blue, red and black. If I had wanted silver I could have had a car within days. Black or dark grey would have taken two months. Red would have taken 4 months, and they weren't guaranteeing that. I think blue was about the same as black, but I disliked the specific shade and didn't take much notice. I wanted red, but was already without a car, so I chose black and put up with the inconvenience rather than having silver without the inconvenience.

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Ours is metallic blue. We always buy used cars, but normally have a bit of choice over colour. We never worry about the resale value, because we keep the car until the garage bills to keep it in running order exceed the value of the car itself, then trade it in for the scrap value and buy another used car.
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My family had a salmon pink Citroen for a while. It was very, xerxes visible in all condition, to policemen too. My parents had more tickets driving that car than any other and decided visibility wasn't all it is cracked up to be.

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I've noticed that France is much more conservative than the UK in car colours; dealers often stock a smaller range of hues. I would have liked one of my previous cars in metallic blue or a rather nice burnt orange available in the UK, but couldn't get it here.

As has been mentioned, cars in nondescript colours are easier to sell (but harder to find in car parks). I was won over by being advised that silver was the best colour to conceal dirt.

In an interesting tangent, it seems that lime yellow is actually more visible than red, and some places took to painting their fire engines in this colour on that basis. The problem (or so I hear) is that people think fire engines should be red, so fail to see fire engines painted any other colour anyway.

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In my experience, black cars show dirt much more than white cars. This is counterintuitive, but true.

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As black reflects little, dirt on it may reflect light like stars in a black night sky.
Stars don't show up in daytime. Yes I know the daytime analogy is poor.

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My dad always bought black - any other colour was 'unmanly'!

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I have agitated for years for more fun car colors. Purple! Orange! Teal! I own a Celica of the brightest possible red.

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quote:
Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:
... why was aqua blue discontinued ...

I imagine it's just a matter of fashion - my dad bought a Volvo estate in that colour in 1971, and even then it wasn't exactly common. By the time we sold it 16 years later it was rare indeed.

Our last car but one was a small silver saloon, and it seemed to us at the time that so was everybody else's.

We bought a new Nissan Micra in pillar-box red a couple of months ago, and, as they've only just become available in Newfoundland, it still has rarity value and is easy to find in car-parks (assuming that someone hasn't parked something bigger* in front of it) ...

This is actually the first car we've bought where we've really had a choice of colour (we usually bought second-hand or end-of-season), and although we always said that we wanted a black car, we decided that it was nicer in red; it's rather cute, and black would have been too serious. [Smile]

* a Mini, perhaps [Big Grin]

[ 07. July 2015, 16:07: Message edited by: Piglet ]

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The older Nissan Micras are prone to fun colours. I see one around locally in a pale strawberry pink, another in gold, a third in bronze, and a couple in soft mid-green, as well as the more usual colours. Volkswagen Beetles are also often colourful - and often seem to come with a large artificial flower on the dashboard, which is an enjoyable touch.
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I have a white Skoda. For visibility (snow not being likely, and my going out in it less so), and also because, not being metallic, it will be relatively easy to touch up any scratches.

I've had silver, chocolate wrapper purple, dark green (supposedly British Racing Green, but not quite), rust orange, turquoise, cream, pale blue and my first car was white, too.

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There was a real aqua-blue Ford that was the inspiration for the flying one in Harry Potter.

My dad was an engineer for Peugeot before the UK plant closed, so we had a company car in most of the colours. My favourite was the crystal green, a metallic mint green colour. My mum now has a bright yellow 106 called Daisy, decorated with ducks inside.

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Looking out of the study window, most of our neighbours' cars are very much in neutral colours. One neighbour has very recently bought a mustard yellow new-style Fiat 500, which really stands out from the crowd. We just haven't figured out which neighbour it is!

And us? We don't have a car so can be disinterested observers in the car fashion stakes. [Razz]

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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
quote:
Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:
... why was aqua blue discontinued ...

I imagine it's just a matter of fashion - my dad bought a Volvo estate in that colour in 1971, and even then it wasn't exactly common.
He wasn't head of a direct grant grammar school in West London was he? [Paranoid]
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We don't see so many grey and silver cars down here in South Wales, but that's probably because it's always raining (or at best overcast) and the drivers of these cars rarely put the lights on.

If the vehicle is silver/grey and a german make, there's bugger all chance of the lights being on, until the stars are visible.

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quote:
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... He wasn't head of a direct grant grammar school in West London was he? [Paranoid]

No - you're quite safe. [Big Grin]

Ariel's right - little fun cars like Micras, Fiat 500s and VW Beetles (especially the original ones) look good in colours that would be deeply naff on bigger cars, although I'd draw the line at the pink convertible Micra that Richard Hammond tested on Top Gear.

I must confess to a desire to get black spots painted on ours to make it look like a ladybird ... [Hot and Hormonal]

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quote:
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I must confess to a desire to get black spots painted on ours to make it look like a ladybird ... [Hot and Hormonal]

When I was younger, I dreamed of having a red VW Beetle and painting black spots on it!

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You can, very cheaply, buy stickers to stick on your car. The nice thing about this is that when you are tired of the ladybird effect you can take the stickers off.

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Pigwidgeon

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quote:
Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
You can, very cheaply, buy stickers to stick on your car. The nice thing about this is that when you are tired of the ladybird effect you can take the stickers off.

True, but they wouldn't have the same effect on my white sedan (even though it is a Volkswagen).

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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
We don't see so many grey and silver cars down here in South Wales,

Sioni, we live about 20 miles from you (the right side of the Bridge), and we see lots of grey or silver cars - in fact, our car is grey.

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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
I must confess to a desire to get black spots painted on ours to make it look like a ladybird ... [Hot and Hormonal]

I've actually seen that - someone drove past me in one of those a few weeks ago.

There is one thing about the pink convertible - it might get laughed at but it's much less likely to be stolen.

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Originally posted by Ariel:
There is one thing about the pink convertible - it might get laughed at but it's much less likely to be stolen.

Nah. Some Mary Kay lady who wants people to think she earned the famous pink car will hotwire that thing in a heartbeat!

Seriously, though, people don't steal cars for their own use. Often it's to strip for parts and/or metals; and if the car is a new car, the airbags will be a hot item! Usually if they just want the driver's side airbag, they'll break a window and steal it and leave the car alone. But cars now have air bags all over the place, don't they?

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I like the daisies, myself.

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Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:
At least in the States half of all cars are silver, white, or black, in descending popularity.

The article suggests that we tend to associate silver with cutting edge design; no wonder luxury cars are almost always silver in advertisements.

I thought it was that silver blends in with the freeway and lets you hide from the cops better. [Big Grin]

My friend's wife is into this craziness. (not her pictured)

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Here in Australia, you can accessorise your Nissan Micra or Toyota Yaris with black plastic headlight surrounds in the shape of eyelashes. The current model Yaris is also offered in a shade of pink reminiscent of raspberry fool.

In our household Mrs BA has a sunflower yellow Hyundai, for visibility reasons in carparks and on the road, having been hit in our pillarbox red Ford by a young driver who claimed not to have seen her. My 4WD is a champagne colour, which seems to be offered in several vehicle brands here.

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quote:
Originally posted by Brenda Clough:
I like the daisies, myself.

I don't need to buy the pawprint stickers - I have two cats to provide the real thing...! [Big Grin]

My car and the one before are both silver/grey - but that's because they've been hand-me-downs from the parentals. By choice I'd have something much brighter [Smile]

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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
My friend's wife is into this craziness. (not her pictured)

How does that cope in a car wash??
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There were studies done here 50 or so years ago which related the colour of cars to the suburbs where the owners lived. The results showed that while there were suburbs where the chosen colours (strictly wrong, I know) were white, black, dark green or blue, grey* or beige** were predominant, there was a large swathe of suburbs where cars were red, bright green, bright blue and yellow. This led to the description of those suburbs as "coloured car suburbs", in a far from complimentary manner.

These days, the closest equivalent would be the jelly bean coloured cars and utes, but a revision of the study would be interesting.

*This in the days before the all but compulsory metallic grey for German cars and those copying them.

**I can recall a Punch article where upwardly mobile people were advised to purchase a beige Rover (in the P4/P5 era) as a sign or respectability.

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