So you live where the dealers live? (and I don't mean car dealers)

I live where the footballers live. Although these are probably not mutually exclusive! The nearest car dealership is, alas, a Proton/Daihatsu one but there is a Jaguar one a little further away.

In Oxford-no.

Elsewhere-yes!

Avant, the howler was on my part! Dear me, all this expensive educashun and we can't effectively communicate on an internet forum...

Bilious green - that is a great way to describe it!

A couple of years ago I arrived at the Hilton Inn in Leicester around 6.35 am (heading for the gym) and the car park was infested with royal blue Zafiras. There were probably 40 or 50, with several rows of 7 to 10. I imagine a sales conference was in progress.

Edited by meandering on 31/08/2011 at 23:29

Bright colours don't age very gracefully either. They generally cheapen the look of a car. I suppose bright colours are like using the bus or looking after geriatrics; we agree that someone should do it-but not us!

I thought manufacturers now did a palette of grey, silver, black, white and the odd maroon or navy because the car buyer has spoken and said that they cannot sell on yellow, green or orange vehicles for as much money as the less conspicuous colours.

Onthe other hand - you rarely see a 'boring' coloured Lambo. They're usually 'look at me' yellow.

Bring back British Racing Green! I have seen a 5-series in dark green. Looked lovely.

We need a 'what colour is you car?' thread as a sort of straw poll.

One is blue while the other one is maroon. Tourmaline green was my preferred choice instead of blue.

I think (I hope!) Trilogy means the colours of his cars, in reply to my suggestion above. My Mazzy is mid-blue.

Yeah yeah deffo. The fuel and service costs are killing me. ;-P

I always want to write on the matte black Maserati QP that parks round the corner from me, in chalk of course. 'H.phi=E.phi' or something like that.

unthrottled, Tourmailine green is not, I believe, a Rover colour.

or

deltax.deltaP => h

Followed by some very precise co-ordinates.