Like I said - Gold! I'm not on about the really strong yellow type gold - but the nice pale, almost champagne like gold.
And yes - front fogs are cool. Just remember to put them on all the time otherwise they're a waste of money!
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Personally I would go for the Flamenco red met, Sahara gold or Black magic. They seem the nicest colours to me on this car. I wouldn't bother with front fogs unless I was getting them for free. They're something you hardly ever need. However, if I was getting some free accessories thrown in I'd go for mats, flaps or parking sensors.
The Ambiente seems well equipped as it is.
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Do they let you 'build' a car on the Skoda site?
Sometimes the different trim/paint options make it look right - or a mistake, by doing it this way.
But nothing beats seeing the colour in the metal.
& as mentioned, have what YOU want!!
But then again, I like yellow cars!!
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Silver is so common (12 cars all together in Local Morrisons car park in Congleton - all silver).
I like green except bright green. BRG is nice. Dark metallic green is boring - reminiscent of mid 19990 Citroens .
Yellow is a nono as is bright gold - for extroverts deprived of good taste at birth and aesthetically challened imo:-)
Black is IMPOSSIBLE to keep clean .. lovely when it is.
Blues are nice. Red is painful and fades.
A well polished and looke dafter white (no rust stains) is acceptable but resale likely to be poor (Ford Diamond White is nice)
Metallic gray looks very distinguished.. easy to clean and different without being in your face..
But all a matter of my taste..
Go to a delaers and look at the colours of the second hand cars to see how they look after 2-3 years.. by far the best way imo.
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That's the nicest way anyone's ever called me ugly before.
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>>Silver is so common >>
My current and last car both silver. Smart and stays looking smart for longer.
Also recently revealed that you were least likely to be involved in an accidents in a silver car (i.e. quicker to spot, so safest), a role that used to be held by yellow models (your No No!)
It's all personal taste. My missus and her friends love a local Honda Civic in pink - to me it's hideous.
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But if it's gold it's less likely to be pinched by the tasteless scumbags of society.
Swings and roundabouts.
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>>But if it's gold it's less likely to be pinched by the tasteless scumbags of society.>>
So they do have standards of taste then, despite being toe rags?
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Scumbags would not be seen dead in a gold car: they have bnetter taste:-)
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Two posts have said that green is an unlucky or 'unpopular' colour. The British motor racing colour in the days when there were national colours. When I was a small child I had a green pedal car and always wanted to have a green car when I grew up. Never have had one though, and when I was minicabbing learned from colleagues that green motors were considered unlucky. One country boy with a green metallic Vauxhall VX490 did in fact come to grief doing his usual 80mph down Lavender Hill one day, and was never seen again (not dead, just out of it for a while, motorless and quite possibly banned). However I couldn't see what the colour of his car had had to do with it.
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Two posts have said that green is an unlucky or 'unpopular' colour.
No one seems to have told the people at the Foxtons chain of estate agents, who have a fleet of just under 500 green MINIs (albeit camouflaged somewhat by all the logos etc!!). Pale metallic green/silver green/grey green seems to be acceptable as well, as quite a few models are available in this sort of colour, and I see them fairly often (Jag S Type, Scenic/Megane II, previous generation BMW 3 and 5s, Volvos, even Mondeos) Never had a green car myself; not because of the fear of it being unlucky though...
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I once bought a new Audi 80 in a dreary solid green simply because the price was right (a cancelled order). At that time, mid 1970's, green cars were rare as hen's teeth. Some modern metallic greens are nice though.
I'd not happily buy a car in a non-colour (white, black or silver) because I regard them as way too boring and commonplace to contemplate, regardless of how the market views them. The only exception might be if they were as much a bargain as that Audi was.
Mind you, when driving a car you can't see what colour it is anyway.
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Despite what some say, solid reds don't fade like they used to. The worst case I ever saw was on a colleagues M reg Carina E, but that was over ten years old. No fade so far on my 6 year old Focus - and yes I do park it outside.
I do agree that silver is dullsville though - my kids call it metallic grey.
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"solid reds don't fade like they used to."
I used to think "Faded Red" was a factory option on Cit BXs
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My views on silver are coloured by the fact that when SWBO bought her Peugeot 106, it was in silver and that was a rare colour in 1993.
Now it's a "me too, you as well?" colour .
Of course , dullness and conformity is what some people aspire to:-)
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Silver and light greys may well be "me too" and "common" and anonymous, but
They look smart and suit most cars, and they hide dirt most of the time.
Both admirable traits in cars
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Totally agree TVM. Call it what you like, silver dark or light is a great colour for cars. They're made of metal aren't they? And what colour is that, when not yet corroded?
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And don't say gold Adam. Only brass and bronze and gold and sodium for a few seconds are that sort of colour. Mere bling.
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Well said TVM and Lud - Silver and light grey metallics look particularly well on cars with alloy wheels and black/dechromed trim, so that the two predominant colours of black and silver/grey create an overall very smart on-road presence.
I did a brisk 150 miles in the rain yesterday in what started as a very clean car and, despite travelling on mainly country back roads across Hampshire, Wiltshire and Somerset, ended up a a very clean-looking car that only needed a quick chamois-leather job before being put to bed. As I said on the forum some while back, you only ever have one black car - Model T drivers excepted I suppose!
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I'm afraid I view silver as boring to the nth degree. Paint manufacturers can produce any colour you like, but why bother when most people buy silver? I once had a silver Mazda, bought partly because of relative rarity as much as anything. Now the colour is common as muck I prefer to go for something a little more distinctive.
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It's quite simple. Silver gold and copper colours are favoured by chavs.
The bling culture.
As proved by several posters on this thread:-)
Metallic gunmetal is far more pleasing and less chavian.
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Metallic gunmetal is far more pleasing and less chavian. madf
Metallic gunmetal = dark silver?
This thread proves that people have favourite colours for cars. We knew that already.
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Metallic gunmetal is far more pleasing and less chavian. madf
However, it must be the least visible car colour around, especially in urban environments. Also, from its increasing popularity, I fear gunmetal may be the new silver soon 8-)
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Last visible is good. Fewer lowlives wanttostealit.
madf
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Sorry .. Last = least
madf
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Fewer lowlives wanttostealit.>>
Would have thought it would be the opposite.
Least visible, further away you can get...:-)
Especially if it's a very popular model.
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"Now the colour is common as muck "
Alan - One of the main points of my post was that, precisely because the car is silver, there was NO discernible muck!
Anyway, I have just remembered that my XK is platinum, not silver, so maybe just a little more distinctive, and definitely not as common as muck. After all, imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery ....
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Hi Union Jack,
Not literal muck! I just view all silvers - whether pale 'platinums' or dark 'gunmetals' as bland and uninteresting. Give me a nice metallic red or blue any day.
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"Give me a nice metallic red"
Like my bride's estate, and very nice too. They scrub up very well - both of them! No offence taken of course.
Jack
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"Nowadays there seems, again, to be a fad for black cars which for me is a no-no that is unless one lived, say, in California where the weather seems kinder to dark cars."
You don't want a black car in a hot climate like California. Leave it a few hour in the sun and it would be like getting into an oven! It might be alright in the UK though where it seldom gets warm far less hot :-))
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Having looked at the manufacturers' advertisements in the May edition of What Car? magazine I think solid red may be the in colour for this year. Manufacturers usually advertise their cars in the colour which they thinks looks best.
(If I'm right I'm ahead of the game!)
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This morning I followed a new Ford Focus which was a sort of s***y orange. I could hardly believe what I was looking at. It looked truly awful. I can only describe it as vile.
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I see the censor has been at work. I did not put what you may assume I put. The word I put was s p i c y.
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Yeah - a hideous car covered in an even more hideous colour. Imagine when the road is flooded with them!
With regards to the word s p i c e, it's a swear word in ancient Sumerian apparently.
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Yeah - a hideous car ......
Wash your mouth out, Adamski!
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Don't tell me you're going to buy one Snaily.
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Isn't that carpy orange reserved for the decent Focus?
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You mean the ugly Focus with the bodykit and Volvo engine?
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Yup, that's the one I think. Might not the body kit be removable?
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The bodykit's the best thing about it cosmetically. That doesn't say much though.
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There's a girly-pink metallic Honda for sale in the classifieds. Now that's a nice colour for yr Ford-Volvo mongrel road rocket eh Adam?
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The bodykit's the best thing about it cosmetically. That doesn't say much though.
'Scuse me Adamski? I thought you had a Focus. Oh, sorry, I remember now. It's not a real Focus, because it's got a boot!
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Worry not good sir although I fear it's you that needs to be excused for we both own the nice (Mk 1) Focus and not the hideous Mk2 Focus which is what we're all on about ;-)
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>>not the hideous Mk2 Focus>>
I also much prefer the original Focus but, in fairness, the new model does deliver the impression of purpose and solidity when viewed side on.
Unfortunately from other angles.......:-)
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