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I am afraid to admit that the first car I ever bought in 1983 was canary yellow (1968 Spitfire; now resprayed signal red) and the car I sold last year was white (1985 Range Rover classic).
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For some reason I've always given white cars a wide berth. They never seem to look so good on the forecourt either, up there with "doom" blue as a guaranteed downer on resale prices.
Think it might have been influenced by my late father's Mk. 2 Escort; it was a 1.1 Popular, bit of a comedown from the Mk. 2 Cortina Super he'd had before and my mother hated it. I did own one white car myself, a Citroen BX which nearly killed me so perhaps it's psychological. ;-)
The only "shade" of white which ever caught my eye was on the Mark 2 Jags; am I correct in thinking it was called "Old English White", a sort of ivory shade? I suspect that it had more to do with the Jag's beautiful styling than the colour.
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For some modern cars, white looks superb. For the new Mercedes C Class, Golf Gti, Suzuki Swift, Honda Jazz and all new Audis, white is the perfect colour.
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The E39 5 Series was particularly striking, the latest 5 shape looks good as well in a lantern jaw sort of way.
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And Ford S Max and the new Mondeo. Doesn't suit any Vauxhall/ Opels that I can think of.
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Depends which 'white' really. there'a a sort of pearl white or metallic white (both slighlty, I imagine, off 'technical' white) that really complement & enhance some shapes & brands - HJ mentioned the Fiat 500 in white , which works nicely. A Vauxhall (any type) never would, nor probably a Ford (except maybe a GT40 or Mustang) - it's almost like a car needs a minimum of 'classiness' before it can wear white - just like some of us can 'get away' with wearing a hat - like me! - whilst others always look like they're wearing fancy dress. (present company excepted of course!)
Edited by woodbines on 09/02/2008 at 20:45
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Depends which 'white' really. there'a a sort of pearl white or metallic white
Very important point woodbines.
Friend had an early 60s Alfa that formerly belonged I think to a Maharajah. It was white with a very subtle pink tinge to warm it up a bit. Never seen anywhere else.
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If one wants to make a sweeping categorisation, each era has a default colour - the boring, basic choice.
From the 1930's to early 50's, the default colour was black
In the 1960's and early 1970's it was white.
For the 1980's, default colour was red.
1990's - to 2008, it has been silver but I notice a growing number of new cars in non-metallic black.
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I always find the best indicator of "popular" colours is on hire cars. I have quite a lot of hire cars and they are almost invariably silver.
The only exception to this has been Fords where the two I have had recently (C-Max) have both been blue.
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Always liked OEW on Mark2 Jags. I thought it a mix of ivory and cream.
Did not go well with rust in later years:-(
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