I need to replace my stolen car with a used but low mileage replacement. White seems to be quite common for resale. Would it be a poor choice? Thoughts welcome.
I need to replace my stolen car with a used but low mileage replacement. White seems to be quite common for resale. Would it be a poor choice? Thoughts welcome.
Depends if you like white cars. Personally apart from a few models, not for me.
IMO the "white moment" has gone now - some cracking colour palettes around - the new green on the new audi S5 diesel as an example
I think the market will become flooded with older white cars - grey, silver or black the best for resale IMO
Depends on your taste, I had a metallic white one and thought it was fantastic, have a metallic black now so what do I know!
I agree with the above, white was "en vogue" for a couple of years, personally I'm not sure why, as i don't think it does a nice looking car any favours.
En vogue?
Is that like in fashion?
White is fine...wouldn't put me off...never been a fashionista anyway.
How a manufacturer can charge an additional £500 for a colour is a mystery to me.
Not talking fancy metallics containing unobtainium here either...just plain old school colours.
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Yip. Like all consumer products, trends come and go. I think white has gone.
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Well it was the third most popular car colour for new registrations last year, so hardly had its day, and as for green WTF (note I'm in a minority and actually like a few shades of green and have owned four green cars over the years).
It's just a matter of time...
lots of cars are on lease - and white is a "free" colour - so leasers don't wish to over pay - it's cheap - its free - its not my thing
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I think white looks good on some cars and will still remain in fashion as those models filter down the supply chain, so it all depends on how long you plan to keep it. I wouldn't be buying a diesel now though and hunted high and low for a manual petrol CRV when I was looking for a used one last year.
When I had a car business, I would actively discourage customers from choosing green, even if it did have a fancy name like "Goodwood Green" or "Ultimate Green".
https://www.autoglym.com/blog/2017/0...c-car-colours/
Most popular the year before, no?
My guess: white's time has passed, and in three or four years white cars will look as dated as silver ones do now.
I wouldn't go grey, because it is the new white, and fwiw I reckon burnt orange (not brown) will be fashionable in a year or two, along with my preference (and what I bought recently) emerald green. And not flat, obviously.
I never clean a car enough, and who would going to a construction site everyday.. So never liked white. The burnt red/brown I see a bit is nice though.
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Green works for me.
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I saw this at MB World last weekend...awesome colour the pic doesn’t do it justiceGreen works for me.
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I think it depends on the auto. I own a couple of Range Rovers, one of which is white ( my old P38) my new L405 on the other hand is green. My daughter has a white Genesis G90. White is IMHO an elegant color but not for everyone.
I don’t mind white cars, it’s red I dislike for some reason. Safest bet is always black or gunmetal grey I’d say but as with watches, buy what you like the best!
Black is the worst colour if you like a clean looking car!
After 50 yrs in the Funeral business i can only agree with the above i really hate black cars they are murder to keep clean we have a white car and i have absolutely no problem with the colour as the missus mentioned why are all cars now grey?
I FEEL LIKE I'M DIAGONALLY PARKED IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE
I quite like white cars, I had a white A4 and my current CC is white, suits them both I think.
If Im honest, I don't really care what colour my car is, when I had company cars, I always let my kids pick the colour, they loved it! Luckily, there isn't really a 'bad' choice these days.
Cheers..
Jase
White always reminds me of the old ex police cars you used to be able to pick up for next to nowt in the auctions.
I agree that some cars look good in white but it would be the last choice on my list.
Just buy the colour you like. If it's an unpopular colour presumably will be cheaper to buy now.
I've had a few white cars over the years and quite like them on the right car - each to their own.
One point of caution - I had a BMW in metallic mineral white. Turned out it was almost impossible to paint match the repair after some lovely sole scraped it in a car park - fortunately it was a company vehicle so didn't cost me, but the repair looked shocking despite various attempts to rectify.
Was that Dover?
Sounds like it was a lemon
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I fear it is me who is the lemon.
Funnily enough the damage was inflicted in Portsmouth. Many from the other end of the M27 would suggest it was a skate rather than a sole wot done it.
Depends on the car really. Think it looks good on the new Corolla. And at no extra cost :)
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It totally depends on the car I think. Some look great in white, and others look awful...Discovery 4 for example looked like an ice cream van.
Wouldn’t be my first choice but have owned a couple in the past.
Very much depends on what model of car whether you can get away with white or not.
A white 4x4 with blacked out windows looks cool...
Blacked out windows never look cool on any car imo and if you then couple with dark colours they just make the car look like a van.
No it doesn’t, it looks silly. Blacked out windows look daft with any colour but white looks even dafter.
White 4x 4s look like fridges in white.......perhaps that’s ‘cool’?
You should get out more...them walls could appear to be closing in.
We just got rid of our white car..... it looked great when clean but it annoyed me that we had to clean it so often.
As other have said it very much depends on the actual car. Sometimes white looks great however sometimes it just looks to plain and boring.
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Poverty spec.
On an Audi Q7 the only free colour is flat black . White is £650 extra ....!
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A blast from the past on this very topic. And when white cars were all the rage.
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...ght=white+cars
My opinion: white is NOT a color, but the absence of color. I would never, ever own a white car...a car without color. It is the ultimate in 'blah.'
White cars were nice about 20 years ago when it was unusual. The only white car I've owned was my 1998 Honda Integra Type R which was a beaut with white wheels too.
If you have a white car now it just looks like you lease it!
Surely black is the absence of colour, white is all the colours
Not with paint.
Don’t think you can go wrong with black or white,they never really go out of fashion
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White will minimize the reflections and highlights on a car’s body, thereby making the car look bigger. In contrast, colours (and particularly darker ones) will pick up highlights, emphasize curves and swage lines, and break up large expanses which don’t add to visual flow. For this reason, I prefer darker colours (the deeper reds, darker blues, darker greens).
I’m in the market for a new car at present - and for lots of brands white is not a ‘free’ colour any more. Eg with Ford, race red is free and VW its a nasty flat grey. I love the snobbish comments about ‘poverty spec’ white cars. Absolutely hilarious, imagine driving a car that doesn’t scream ‘look how much money I’ve got’
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Haven’t seen anyone mention safety. A more visible car should be preferable.
Is there a stats available to support this claim ie that white care are more prone for accidents?
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Don't know why but lots of the mega cheap leasing deals over the last few years on Pistonheads have been predominately "Peasant White"
I couldn't stand looking at a white car for 3 years so happily paid extra.
Stats will be skewed by the people who choose each colour. Peasants who buy white cars are obviously not as able as the majority of TZers driving other colours.
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