Topic: Current Trendy Car Colour

[Leviathan]

Sonic Blue FTW

[tpl]

Bring back Tutone from the 50s.   

http://www.motortopia.com/vehicles/view/p/cars/v/3719/i/high_roller

Pink over beige,  white over duck egg blue etc.


How would one keep one of those matte black cars clean?   What are they like when parked in the sun? 
Yuck.

[initial_D]

Sure, free matching handbags as well. Should sell like hotcakes.

[tpl]

That example looks like an early Mary Kay effort!

I bet that the car manufacturers could make that fashionable again if they really tried

[initial_D]

Would look better than yellow. 

[dr_spock]

Pink is usually a custom paint job.  But it is nice to stand out from the rest of the crowd.

[ktm525]

I would say that Bliver (beige/silver and all their offspring) still reigns supreme!

[WpgMonty]

Charcoal grey, dark grey, medium grey, light grey and silver still seem to be all the rage. DULL DULL DULL.

I wanted a black Focus with chrome trim but was over-ruled by the supreme being in the house. So I got her a boring silver Focus. Chrome trim looks awful on silver. Yuck.

Some cars look good in the variants of grey, but I'm so bored of that colour now.

The Honda Element Kiwi Green was a great colour, as is the Toyota Corolla deep red, and Mazda's bright blue and teal. I also saw a Infiniti EX in pearlescent white with a darker tan interior, and it looked fabulous.

[ovr50]

White is now the #1 color in NA with Silver just behind it in 2nd. The attached article by DuPont guy explains the trends and why white is popular now:

http://autos.aol.com/article/general/v2/_a/white-unseats-silver-as-top-auto-color/20071205095309990001

[tpl]

I have noticed that my new white car with a black interior is cooler in the sun than the previous dark green with a light tan interior.   

IIRC some years ago the Mk1 Mazda 6 had an option of a small solar cell mounted inside the rear window that powered a low voltage fan that exhausted hot air from the car while parked to keep the interior cool(er) without running down the car battery    This is a gadget that I'd pay for provided that it was properly integrated into the car systems and now solar cells are far more efficient and cheap I wonder why no-one offers it.

[safristi]

..I was ahead of tha TREND ......my 81 Dodge GTX woz white... now I'm mired in SILVER....gotta get me some GOLD & PLATINUM... ....Gotta say I love that Pearlescent sparkly creamy/white....the plain white
is too eye straining on "most" cars...interesting comment about white being a 2 year transitional KOLOR FAD........personally i woz glad when those two toner cars were done..never liked my Dad's cream and blue Cresta..loved the Dark Blue monotone  Zephyr (Z Car he replaced it with)...funny how tastes change.... TAXI!!!!

[initial_D]

Eco-Woodie could make a comeback.

[barrie1]

I like the while on my truck as ou don't get burnt in the summer when you touch the paint on a hot day. The whole truck is much cooler to ride in as well and it looks really good when its clean. Of course its look really dirty when it really is as well. MY truck has Blue Windows in it which also helps by keeping the temp down while you are in the cab. 

[dr_spock]

White and blue sounds like the EMD's colours. 

[TopGun]

Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute and author of Color: Messages and Meanings..."When people go to white, it's because there's so much concern in the world around us. There's so much muddy and unknown," Eiseman says. "Let's try to clear it all up. Nothing does that more than white does. White is the color of clarification."
http://autos.aol.com/article/general/v2/_a/white-unseats-silver-as-top-auto-color/20071205095309990001

Ummm...we got the "Pepper White" Mini Cab because it was a change from our previous red one...and all the other colours didn't look nearly as nice contrasting with the black top.

[Greg B.]

Charcoal grey, dark grey, medium grey, light grey and silver still seem to be all the rage. DULL DULL DULL.

Some companies are now offering "colors" in which I can see no color at all. They look like shiny murk to me. There is a dark shade on the Mazda 3 that I cannot tell if is supposed to be dark charcoal, dark green, dark brown, whatever. It is just dark and lifeless. But Mazda is not alone as I see other cars wearing a similar non-color all the time. Why people buy such a shade escapes me.

[TopGun]

Why people buy such a shade escapes me.

You've hit on a likely reason Greg...many people buy with the thought of trading at some point...and they may think that an "unoffensive" colour will increase their trade-in value...or at least not hurt it any.

[Cortina]

I find the trouble with Canadaland. There are not a lot of good choices when comes to colours on cars/suvs/trucks and vans period IMO.

[ktm525]

Why people buy such a shade escapes me.

You've hit on a likely reason Greg...many people buy with the thought of trading at some point...and they may think that an "unoffensive" colour will increase their trade-in value...or at least not hurt it any.

As much as I oppose the "beige-silver" choices I ended up with a dark grey (Titanium metallic) for the V70R. I wanted a Q ship and I figured the bright red or Subaru blue would have drawn unwanted attention. My truck is silver because I bought it used, it was in great shape and that was the colour. At least the P1800 is red.

[safristi]

wots hard & red and throbs between a mans legs,,,,,,,, KTM's & his P1800..