battleship grey
Drab flat not metallic..
(James Bond's Derby Bentley)
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Midlife crisis, I wouldn't dream of paying for a dealer's holidays/children's education/whatever! : )
I work for a company that, for whatever bizarre reason, changes it's lease cars every 6 months. It used to be 9 months, but now it's 6.
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I'm lumping them all together, to me it's all grey...
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There are 5 boring colours; Black, White, Dark-Silver, Mid-Silver, Light-Silver.
(Actually they are more accurately described as non-colours. They have luminance but no discernable hue)
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I'm lumping them all together, to me it's all grey...
You sound like you're having a bad day. I've just been out of the office and its 7'C but bright sunshine and cloudless skies, nothing drab going on round our way!
Silver used to be alright but now its as common as muck. I bought a silver Golf before silver got its current leap in popularity; wasnt my preferred colour but everything else was right (at the time) so I bought it. Then within a year silver cars were everywhere.
My cars have been:
Dark blue Cavalier, white MG Metro, metallic black Audi 80, metallic light blue Peugeot 405, silver VW Golf, black Saab 9000, and currently got a metallic blue Saab 9-3.
I prefer black, dark metallic grey, anthracite type colours for cars. I will compromise on colour if the rest of the car is good, but I would never even look at a flat red, yellow or white car. I still associate white with police cars; some cars pull it off, most don't IMO. Red and yellow are too extrovert and flashy for my tastes; I dont feel the need to drive around saying "everyone look at me in my bright shiny car". Not keen on green either except for BRG, just doesnt look 'right' to me, I cant explain why, must be some subconcious thing!
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A car's a car. Don't care about colour.
If the right car came along and it was metallic purple, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest.
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My PiL, who knew nothing about cars, bought a Mk2 Golf in a yellowy beige colour. Looked like homogonised vomit. Drove like it, too, ISTR.
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Our R-plate Polo was Chagall Blue which was really a kind of flat purply blue. "Lose it in a car park" dull.
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1979 brown Rover SD1 2600 auto........truly hideous in most respects inc the colour.....was fairly quick for the 2600 though, that was its only saving grace.......the worst car i've ever had by a country mile
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.>> 1979 brown Rover SD1 2600 auto........truly hideous in most respects incthe colour.....was fairly quick for the 2600 though, that was its only saving grace.......the worst car i've ever had by a country mile
I don't think brown is boring - unpleasant perhaps.
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A car's a car. Don't care about colour. If the right car came along and it was metallic purple, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest.
I rather like metallic purple.
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There are 5 boring colours; Black, White, Dark-Silver, Mid-Silver, Light-Silver.
Well that's mine excluded from the list then as it's classed as Star Silver ;o)
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>> There are 5 boring colours; Black, White, Dark-Silver, Mid-Silver, Light-Silver. Well that's mine excluded from the list then as it's classed as Star Silver ;o)
Er... is that Dark, Mid or Light silver?
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Er... is that Dark, Mid or Light silver?
er, as I said, Star Silver.
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Yup, silver is a pretty boring colour for cars. Metallic grey is not really much better - though probably a bit better if only because there are fewer of them around.
Let's now widen the discussion a bit.
What is the most boring colour for gent's shirts? White, isn't it?
And gent's shoes? Er - probably black.
Boring they may be, but I think they look quite smart, and I stick with them. And for much the same reason, if I was getting a new car tomorrow, I'd probably get silver . . .
unless, of course, Citroen start doing Berlingos in that nice Ford Focus ST orange shade :-)
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Boring or ugly?
That Mercedes Sandstorm Beige or something was pretty hideous. Similar also available for the Austin Marina
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BL cars were brown to hide the rust weren't they?
My dad's old Vauxhall Viva was dog-muck brown. Quality motor.
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Any car in that champagne/beige type colour- see a few X-types in it around here and its just vile.
Can't beat a bright colour on a small car- post box red on my Ibiza looks lovely when polished.
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My colour history..
'M' Citroen Xantia 1.9TD SX - Flat Black. Looked amazing when wet. Looked like a swirl marked filthy mess at all other times.
'V' Ford Mondeo 2.0 16v Ghia X - Stardust Silver. Always looks presentable, paintwork appears immaculate despite being 7 years old now. A brilliant colour
'51' BMW 530i Sport - Titanium Silver. Once again, despite being near 5 years old the paintwork is absolutely immacuate - silver just hides everything. The arguably more attractive Topaz Blue examples I viewed ALL had swirl marks..
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My colour history:
Maritime Blue,
Admiral Blue,
Platinum Silver,
Imperial Blue,
Sunlight Silver,
Aegean Blue,
Black Magic,
Midnight Blue,
Meridian Silver.
Sad that I know the names, or there are only three basic colours there. The Aegean blue was actually quite a nice Teal, seemed more green than blue but the colour on the V5 was blue.
Silver is just a very practical colour. Even when a bit dirty, except from close up, it still looks clean. For many cars the prospect of an easy future resale with a metallic silver colour makes it a financially sensible choice.
The most boring car colour has to be a 70s/early 80s browny beige. For a carpet, absolutely fine. For a car the colour's not offensive, as then it wouldn't be boring, it's just there's nothing interesting to say about it.
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My cars colour history (together with date of manufacture) is :-
1936 Wolseley 14 ~ black
1936 Citroen 12 ~ black
1952 Standard Vanguard ~ black
1965 Singer Chamois ~ dark green
1967 Hillman Minx ~ dark blue
1974 Hillman Imp ~ yellow
1976 Ford Escort ~ yellow
1980 Ford Escort ~ yellow
1983 Ford Escort ~ taupe (eugh!)
1986 Ford Fiesta ~ metallic grey
1988 Ford Escort ~ red
1990 Ford Escort ~ red
1991 Citroen ZX ~ red
1994 Citroen ZX ~ red
1996 Peugeot 306 ~ white
1999 Ford Focus ~ red
2003 Ford Focus ~ red
The black cars were old bangers. The dark green and dark blue cars were forever getting bumped in carparks so I went off dark colours. The AA did a survey which concluded that yellow cars were highly visible and statistically were involved in the least number of accidents so I started buying yellow until the colour became largely unavailable. Eventually I settled on solid red as being both likeable and highly visible. If money was no object I would have all my cars in Coventry Fire Engine Yellow. This was specially formulated at the University of Warwick for the Coventry Fire Service and they used it for several years until the government decreed that all fire appliances must be red.
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Useful point.
While I like silver / metallic grey cars, it must be admitted that they are pretty much "road coloured", and if you drive one you can be almost invisible to unobservant motorists.
BTW, what exactly is Coventry Fire Engine Yellow?
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I'm not sure about gold coloured cars. I remember gold 1600Es foundly though.
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Xantia HDi.
Buy a Citroen and get to know the local GSF staff better...
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BTW, what exactly is Coventry Fire Engine Yellow?
See the following extract from a website I found.
"A few years back (well, 40 or so -- I'm dating myself again here), Coventry Fire Brigade decided that "fire-engine red" had become so common a colour that its appliances no longer stood out when attempting to speed through congested traffic (old playground joke: "Why are fire engines red?" / "Because they're always rushin'"), and so they adopted a particularly vile greeny-yellow which they figured no-one else would ever willingly wish to adorn anything with. Well, they were wrong because at Red Hill, half way between Alcester and Stratford, is a pub (called The Stag, I believe, though that may have changed) painted in exactly that shade of bilious puke yellow. Going east, it's on the right: you can't miss it, but you'll probably wish you had."
I would have said it was 30 years The colour was so striking that some people felt physically sick if they stared at it long enough.
The colour was accorded BSI recognition and given a BS number but I can't trace it. Eventually Coventry fire appliances had to be repainted red because the government decreed that all local authority fire appliances used on public roads had to be red.
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>> Er... is that Dark, Mid or Light silver? er, as I said, Star Silver.
That's just a marketing term - silver is silver, it only varies in lightness, whereas proper colours vary in hue - sometimes quite subtly.
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Silver is the best colour, they hardly ever need cleaning . I have had all sorts of colours but my current mazda 626 1999 in silver has needed less cleaning than any other car i ve owned . I wax it about every 3 months when the rain stops beading on the paintwork.
So my advice is buy silver!!!!d Never mind boring, the thing with silver cars is they need less cleaning.
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