I see a beat up old lime green Hilux around where I live with a big βThe Swordβ sticker on the aide window of the camper. I want to have a beer and listen to good metal with the owner.
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Saw and orange ugly ass Mazda yesterday, and disgusting lime green Tesla truck, and neon pink Tesla, a hunter green vw bug. But god help me the βtrendyβ color in my state right now that absolutely makes me want to gag is Khaki.
Maybe itβs due to being in LA, but Iβve seen plenty of bright colors, an iridescent finish once or twice, and occasionally Angeline Pink.
Oh, I love an iridescent or opalescent finish.
There's a Smart that looks like a cozy coupe that I see fairly often! Also my car is black at white instead of just a solid color. That's mostly because I've had to replace the bumpers after an accident.
My theory of because of the rental fleet to used car lots flow. Rental fleets will buy newer cars, then sell them back to the dealerships so they can sell them as used cars. It's much easier to sell generic coloured cars, than highlighter piss yellow
Yesterday! But I've been trying to just look around more. There's an orange car often, and some pink ones. Also trucks like to be green. Or stripped!
I was just talking about the number of cars that seem to be garden utensil green / brown.
Mine is purple :)
I see a Tuscadero (Metallic Pink) Jeep Wrangler about every other day on my way home from work. Always puts a Smile in my face.
My car is green and my partners car is lava orange π€
My partner and I drive a bright green Chevy Bolt EV ("Shock" is the official name of the color) and we love the smiles we sometimes get.
Today, because my car is green π
I actually hate the attention it gets, but I'm poor and it was cheap. Never seems like a good idea to me if other drivers can easily remember you. On the other hand, I can always find it in a big parking lot.
I saw a green one the other day too
Most car dealerships only stock black, white, silver or grey.
I walked into our showroom the other day and it was very reminiscent of Henry Fords βany colour, as long as itβs blackβ. There were also two silver cars and one dark blue car hidden in the back, as if it was ashamed of itself.
I drive a tan car. My niece drives a mint green car. There are two jungle green Zeekrβs in our street but every single other car is monochrome.
I'm from the UK and recently was in Toronto so rented a car to get around and also to drive to Montreal. We will observed that all the cars were very limited in colours. Is it a North American thing?
In the UK, it has been getting less diverse but still a fair bit of variety
Same experience here. White cars are increasingly common as apparently they have the highest resale value. Quite boring.
Today: yellow, turquoise, green, all in a carpark near my house.
I saw yellow today, and I see them often enough to make a little game out of it.
Yellow is far more common than red, I see green occasionally
Two days ago. It was a gross dehydrated piss yellow pickup truck
It's funny, because I just made a comment about this in another thread.
There the OP was asking if people today are less 'vibrant' than they were a few years ago.
Not only are cars getting duller, the streets are losing vibrancy.
The best street performers of the past are now online. You used to happen upon a great comic or musician at random, playing in a park or mall.
Vibrant pigments usually rely on heavy metals. Lead was common in Red and green paints, arsenic was in greens and chromium was in blue. When they were replaced with organic pigments. They either lost their vibrancy or degraded and faded very quickly.
Also, paint is spread very thinly on cars compared to in the old days. This is partially due to higher quality steel, partially due to more plastic panels and mainly due to weight and cost reduction. This means that doing a cut-and-polish to liven up faded paintwork is liable to expose undercoat.
One economic reason I heard is that bright colors make used cars harder to sell.
It's better to play it safe with a neutral color than risk being stuck with a bright yellow or pink car no one else thinks is pretty.
My niece just traded her burgundy Alfa Romeo Giulietta for her brand new Geely EX2.
She did want the dusty pink one (she is a 19 year old girl who works very hard and purchased her cars herself), but decided on the mint green one because it would have better resale value. They also have a tan one, but the boring grey one is the hottest seller!
Saturday, the last time I took my car out on the road. However, the point is taken, we specifically wanted one of the nicer colors for our car. The dealer was a bit unhappy with us, as we walked into the dealership and said, "we want this vehicle, at this trim level,. in this color." Ultimately, we got the car we wanted at one trim level higher, in the color we wanted. We were already paying ~$60k for the vehicle, the extra $2k to go up a trim level was a small enough jump that we decided to take the car, rather than wait longer for special order. And, if I'm fully honest, I'm actually glad we got the higher trim level. Some of the extra features were very nice to have.
Had we wanted white, we could have driven off the lot with a vehicle the same day. But ya, fuck dull colors. Sure, I recall reading that the dull colors have better resell value, but that's not something I worry about. We use a car as a tool, not an investment. We've already paid the car off and we plan to drive it into the ground. And I'd much rather have the car I want to drive, rather than min/max a couple thousand out of it at some far distant date, maybe.
Saw a yellow sports car on Saturday. My wife has a bright green Fiesta.
Thereβs an orange Subaru at my work, along with a couple of baby-blue Broncos with white tops. Those broncos are pretty stylish, tbh.
Every day. But I'm living in one of the most show off cities in the US. There is no day without spotting a 200k+ car.
Wraps, plasti-dips are really really common. And actually doing a full paint job is relatively cheap also
Same but im also in a VERY car centric city. They dont always look good here haha.
Nope h the question of "why would they pay for that?" Comes often to my mind.
I just saw a pearl white wrapped tesla. It had a very very light pink sheen to it, it was basically 99% white...
Thats funny. and terrible design haha.
Today
I see a couple yellow cars every day. There's a lime one and a dark purple one in my neighborhood. Also, a black one with pink accents and eyelashes over the headlights. Still, the weirdest one I've seen recently was an iridescent pink with a yellow sheen.
I drive an orange sub-SUV when I'm not driving my baby blue moped. And my wife drives a beige truck (she wanted the white one but it was more expensive with its addons)
metallic green, about a week ago
I saw a vintage burnt orange Oldsmobile yesterday, but not on the street
Probably at a racetrack a year or so ago, but out on the street? No idea. Even reds are getting kinda rare. It's supremely boring.
I remember so many colors on the road. Greens. Oranges. Pinks. Navy. Teal. Yellows. All manner and shade of purple. Now it's just. . . Bleh.
My aunt earned a Mary Kay pink Cadillac, and we were all so proud of her. I think people would crap themselves if they saw a pink car on the road nowadays.
It's like the world doesn't have a soul anymore.
According to KBB, green is making a comeback.
https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/what-are-the-best-car-colors-to-buy/
I see green, orange, and yellow cars not uncommonly.
what happened to all pinks, purples, oranges, yellows and greens I remember from the 90s.
Well they werenβt as common as you think they were. They are still around.
Watch some old movies and look at the traffic in the background.
edit = The cars you see are much more colorful than the ones you'll see today.
My kids play tag whenever they see a yellow car.
I miss colorful cars.
I bought my 2008 Honda Fit in orange in Jan of 08 and gave it to my niece who turned 16 this spring. I took over my wife's blue car as she wanted something with AWD. It's a nice blue, but it's a lot harder to pick my car out in a lot these days.
At least it is Nardo Gray.
Lets see.
Green just tonight. Had a weird light kit, so I triple looked
Before that, last I was out of the house was..... Friday? Thursday? Anyway, a yellow mustang was in the line at the drugstore.
Haven't seen purple in ages. Orange? I wanna say a few months ago. Old vw beetle.
Pink? Last time I saw that was maybe ten, fifteen years ago. Somewhere in that range. It stuck in memory because it was a lifted pickup.
That's on the road though. As in I was out driving and they were either doing the same, parked at a business or home, or at a car sales place. I don't think car shows count, otherwise I would say I've seen every damn color out there a few months ago driving past one.
Truth is that factory paint colors are picked by what sells. And most people don't want yellow and orange. Purple, I'm kinda surprised it isn't an option more often
Right now. One of the nehgbours has a green van.