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An advantage of silver that no-one's mentioned is that it's superb for not showing the dirt. As the owner of a silver car that spends virtually all its life outdoors, I appreciate this. A silver car that's not very clean looks dull rather than grotty.
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As long as white vans remain white the colour will never come back to fashion. It's goes well with Essex jogging suites and gold jewelery and bold, fat, thick yobs chasing your rear bumper in their Transits. White is gone forever to small town McDonalds parking crew together with cheap ebay lexus lights, whale spoilers and fake valve gauges. It's the new puter grey, it won't be back, it can't be back and if it wasn't for fleets it would be long gone already.
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As long as white vans remain white
The concept of white vans being any colour other than white is an interesting one :)
"What color do you want your white van, miss?"
"Oooh, pink would do nicely"
(sorry, couldn't resist)
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An advantage of silver that no-one's mentioned is that it's superb for not showing the dirt.
I can vouch for that. My Vectra is metallic Star Silver. Only washed it 4 times since buying it in June. Pity the wheels don't stay as clean though.
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I'll second (third?) that; I haven't washed SWMBO's Star Silver Omega since we came back from Cornwall in May; still doesn't look too dirty - must train the cat to rub himslef up & down the alloys to keep them clean.;-)
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DD. I assume they are alloys? As has been suggested before on this site, our Corsa alloys are much easier to clean several months after a good going over with car polish. In my case Autoglym Super Resin Polish. The rain even washes some of the dust off now.
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I hate white cars - look as though they've missed the paint shop.
To my mind, although a metallic silver lover, I do think that cars, especially larger models, look far more solidly built in darker colours and much more fragile in lighter ones.
An illusion I know but look how most of us get out of the way if a gleaming black, aggressively styled car comes up behind.
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"An illusion I know but look how most of us get out of the way if a gleaming black, aggressively styled car comes up behind."
In parts of london we get out of the way because it will be carrying a boot load of uzi's and blokes who dont worrying about using them.
As a metalic silver owner I endorse the "it does not show the dirt brigade" it never looks really bad despite layers and layers of dirt. The undercoat never shows thro after car park dings, tesco trolley interface incidents or width restriction scrapes either.
Metalic (or pearlescent) rules, Flat colours are a no no. Car wont sell.
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Metalic (or pearlescent) rules, Flat colours are a no no. Car wont sell.
Strange then how i managed to privately sell my last three cars within hours of me putting the small ad in the paper, and yes, they were all flat colours and got my asking price on two of them.
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You would have got the asking price for the third had it been metalic! ;)
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But where have all teh exciting colours gone. in teh 1970s we had a bright acid green Fiat 128. Great car and no bumps becuase you could see it coming miles away!!
Our new Trajet is 'warm silver'. It was that or flat red, a metallic purple or a mica silver. Great choice huh? What happened to gloss black, Midnight blue, Canary yellow. Give us some variety!!!!
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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Metalic British Racing green is my fave, problem is any green car I have had as been an accident magnet!
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"An illusion I know but look how most of us get out of the way if a gleaming black, aggressively styled car comes up behind."
I usually get out of the way when a WHITE car or van comes up behind, especially if it's got a fluorescent stripe down the side and blue flashing lights. ;-)
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I hate white cars - look as though they've missed the paint shop. To my mind, although a metallic silver lover, I do think that cars, especially larger models, look far more solidly built in darker colours and much more fragile in lighter ones. An illusion I know but look how most of us get out of the way if a gleaming black, aggressively styled car comes up behind.
All the medium sized saloons I have chosen have been white except my current silver saloon. I like white cars but some larger saloons do not look so good in white especially in the UK.
I dislike black cars. I think it says something unfortunate about the owners so I would never own one. I think black cars are for the funeral trade. I certainly do not jump out of the way of black cars unless they belong to said trade or have blue lights on them.
I do agree with larger cars looking good in darker colours.
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DD. I assume they are alloys?
Yep.
As has been suggested before on this site, our Corsa alloys are much easier to clean several months after a good going over with car polish.
I usually do polish them, but I haven't got around to it on the current Vectra. Besides which, they're a lot easier to clean than the alloys I've had on previous cars. Not so many crevices to hold onto the stubborn dirt.
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