Reply With QuoteThat are now 7 years old. Anything more recent?
That are now 7 years old. Anything more recent?
I can't remember the last time I saw a brown or beige car? - and apparently they make up 4% of cars globally?
I believe that Silver was the most popular for years, but now White is the top seller.
Unfortunately! Looking to buy a year old Audi TT...most of which seem to be in white. :-( Don't want white.Originally Posted by andrewcregan
Worldwide for 2015.
http://top10for.com/top-10-popular-car-colors-2015/
UK for 2015.
https://www.carwow.co.uk/news/White-...ar-colour-1675
I like darker shades but the seagull crap here on the coast soon burns into the laquer if you don't get it off within a few hours on a hot day. My last two have been white and then silver because of this, metallic white next for me I reckon.
The top 6 totally annihilate positions 7-10.
I never liked Silver, so glad to see that it has dropped to 6th.
So what!
i couldn't decide what to get last summer when ordering my car. I was getting a BMW 640 Gran coupe and wanted something special. My last 3 were black, white and grey and wanted something different.
I went against everything I thought and ordered a red one because my two boys talked me into it. Turned out by far the most striking car I've ever owned and fortunately not too many reds.
Lots of new BMWs round my way in what look likes Austin Allegro Brown.
I had a mini in that colour. As I recall its name was either russet brown or skid mark. Russet brown sounded faster.
Sent from the top of a hill using semaphore.
"Bite my shiny metal ass."
- Bender Bending Rodríguez
I'd had a succession of metallic greys in recent years and felt it was time to return to red and was really glad I did. Haven't had a red car in over 10 years and I'm really pleased with it and haven't seen another this colour in the past 6 weeks I've had it.
Internet pic
The previous red Golf I had was this one and was exactly the same shade (Tornado red).
Cheers
Neil
Do they have squareish steering wheels too ? Haha
A shade we like to call " Soweto Beige" in BMW circles.
Likewise. For years I would look at a car park and it was a sea of silvery-grey. So dull and unimaginative.
White is one I never understood in the past. The Peugeot 405 for instance just looked like it hadn't been finished. But white now does seem to suit more cars. Maybe it's a shape thing?
Anyway I'm a fan of a bright range of colours so I'm happy at the moment!
From my recent buying experience, White is usually one of the free colours, and in some brands the only colour that you didn't pay extra for.
I confess that I like to see a White car under a clear blue sky (usually on holiday!), which rules out their sales in the UK!
I'd like white next (well Mes Lewie would)- we too like on the coast and yes the seagull poop really burns the dark cars(my daughters black KA and my dads 308)
We have a silver A4 and it always looks 'clean'
What put me off white were my old memories of rust stains - last 2 I had were in succession - Orion 1.6i ghia and an XR3i
Cars have much better rust protection these days (those cars go back quite a way!). Especially with larger cars, white can make them look like kitchen appliances; and just as boxy and dull. There is an 'appliance white' BMW X5 at work and it just looks terrible.
I had a white Rover as my first car and hated it with a passion. I don't like the current trend for white and far too many of the cars around when I looking around to buy secondhand are white now. Metallic / pearlescent white can look good in the sun when clean.
My last few cars have been predominantly silvers, greys and a black with a bright yellow in between 😀
Next car will be red - never had one of those before (although have had a maroon Jeep)
Thats what I thought until we looked at a Qashqui, solid red was the only free option, metallic was an extra £500ish. White was only available in pearlescent which was £750ish.
White Range Rovers are enough to put me off it for life...... a more inappropriate colour for an off-road vehicle I cannot imagine. (I know the don't go any more off road than bumping up the occasional kerb)
When I worked on site building motorways, it turned out that White was the easiest colour to keep looking clean .
White cars can get much dirtier than other colours without appearing to be.
i like BRG
Not that common
Look at Autotrader. Select the car you're interested in, national range, the appropriate age (last three years?), and then look at the colour filter to see what's been most popular.
A couple of years ago I very nearly bought a lovely one-user classic XJ6 Jag. But it was that Leyland cack-brown, and I just couldn't bring myself to do it.
White VWs for the last four cars, currently a CC R-line repmobile.
I always think silver or grey cars are sitting in primer waiting for a colour to be added...
For those undecided:
Polo Harlequin
For those undecided:
Polo Harlequin
WowThat would be a very bold/brave purchase!
Certainly easy to find in the car parkWow
Lol, indeed! Plus, there wouldn't be a similar one around!
??? Aren't you the owner of a very lovely but also very Grey, Mustang?
This is coming from a "Space Grey" 3 series owner ;-)
And matching watchFor those undecided:
Polo Harlequin
Colours don't worry me greatly.
I've never had (nor been a fan of) silver as it looks as though you just couldn't be bothered to pick a colour to me, but I MIGHT consider one if it was right in every other way.
Gunmetal grey is OK.
My current car is black (and the first one I've had), which I like, although living in a hard water area, it's a pain when you clean it.
A quick tot up in my head says I've had 3 (well 4, but one is now green) red cars (two of them bought new), 2 blue ones, a white one and a black one.
I'd like the next one to be blue, but I suspect it'll be black or grey.
M
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No.....I'm the owner of a very lovely, and very GREEN mustang..:)
Mmmmm - I wouldn't call that VERY green...No.....I'm the owner of a very lovely, and very GREEN mustang..:)
Very slightly greenish, grey maybe!
Presumably it looks more green in the metal?
M
Must look Green in the flesh because it certainly looks Grey in the pics.........
Logbook says Green, and looks Green to me..:)
LolFor those undecided:
Polo Harlequin
I have an unhealthy love for the old BL colour 'Damson' as on this stunning GT6 (with lovely Revolutions).
A nice deep red with a hint of purple.
All my cars have been whats available (on body condition rather than colour). I've had two Triumph Dolomites (Sprint and 1850HL) in a lovely bright Pageant Blue
1979 Triumph Dolomite 1850HL by Robert Seymour, on Flickr
I have just ordered my next car in awhile never had a white one before
So many silver cars on the road and after owning a couple I really wanted a change so went for mineral grey!
Even though it's the same I can't help myself it's my favourite
Can't stand white cars, I've owned a couple but only because I was buying secondhand and that's what was available. White's very much in fashion at the moment, which I still find surprising.
Favourite for me is dark metallic blue for a modern car.
Paul
^^^^^^^^
White isn't popular by choice, but by financial consideration.
Most manufacturers now offer very limited choice in standard (free) colours, some of which are just plain awful Other manufacturers only offer white, hence the increased number of new white cars on the road.
Never really had a choice, as i've never had a new car, but for me..
Don't like silver, too bland.
Red, orange, yellow, too garish, though my current Saab 9-3 is a nice merlot red
White, Black and dark blue get dirty too quick.
I like dark grey, looks nice and hides dirt well, liked my grey Civic and Leon
Bizarrely, I'm quite taken by the browns that seem to be coming back, if i end up getting a Skoda superb estate on a lease, i'd prefer it in the magnetic brown, cappuccino beige or jungle green, all browny shades
Brighty
I'd read that designers historically painted concept cars silver because the colour shows off the lines better. I took it with a pinch of salt until I ran a silver 6 series after a black one. In black the car looked a bit blobby but in silver I could see how clever Bangle's styling really was. It's not an exciting colour though.
Not sure, it wasn't a popular colour until the 50s...
There's also the story that Mercedes stripped the German national white coloured paint off their cars to save weight in a race somewhere, leaving the cars silver (bare metal) which later became the official German racing colour (oddly, mostly notably during the Nazi regime, but one of the few things they hung onto from that period post war - I guess because FISA (or whatever it was in the early post war era) still insisted on national colours still - and to this day on Mercedes F1 cars...)
M.
Hence its in the George and Dragon section.
Blimey....if you've nothing positive to say.......
Those of us who are old enough will remember the days when metallic paint was a rarity. That changed in the late 60s, Ford were the first big manufacturer to start offering a range of metallic if I remember correctly ( I was a bit young!) and I remember plenty of rusty ones being around in the mid-70s. Metallics weren`t popular second-hand because the paint was difficult to touch up.....these were the days when people had to tackle rust/corrosion on cars that were 5-6 years old and it wasn`t unusual to end up doing a bit of paint spraying on the driveway!
Paint finishes on modern cars are far better than in the past. Paint fell off some British Leyland cars in the mid-late 70s; Fords were better but the paint usually had the appearance of orange peel.
Paul
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