Rant: Car Colors

"PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power" (petarvn)
07/28/2014 at 15:17 • Filed to: None

Before I start, have a colorful car!

So, In my long standing car search, I have realized something. People like to play it safe. 75/100 cars on my autotrader are some of the 50 shades of grey. this is pissing me the fuck off! If you're already planning to spend a large sum of money on a car, why not get it in SOME form of color??? Also, this isn't relating to special edition cars. I mean run-of-the-mill cars like Focuses and Jettas. out of 34 Jettas I have in a 25 mile radius, 20 are some shade of grey, 7 are black, 4 are white, 2 are red, and ONE is brown. Now, don't get me wrong. some greys are beautiful, like the BMW graphite silver. but having LITERALLY EVERY CAR ON THE FUCKING LOT in grey is annoying! car makers, PLEASE go to the local Benjamin Moore or Sherwin Williams and pick out SOME colors for your cars besides red, and the occasional blues and greens.

TL;DR: car makers, Y U NO COLOR MORE?

DISCUSSION (30)

Milky > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:19

IIRC there is some Asian country that has like 95% silver cars. Everyone is afraid of losing resale value so NO ONE gets anything different.

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > Milky
07/28/2014 at 15:20

fuck resale value. get what you love.
signed,
-someone crazy enough to consider a Manual Juke NISMO

CRider > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:20

Kinja'd!!!

People like their cars to match their other appliances.

Blondude > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:21

I drive a grey car...

But seriously, we need more color choices like this:

Kinja'd!!!

camaroboy68ss > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:21

just the current trend right now. You don't see many turquoise, bronze, copper, etc colors mainly they hit their peak in the 50s and 60s. In 20 years the colors will be different again

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:22

This is the 5-series' color pallet. So much boring.

I am disappointed because when BMW does color, it's glorious.

Bandit > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:23

Because everyone takes themselves way too seriously nowadays. That's why I drive a car with a giant flaming chicken on the hood and miles of pin striping. It's the same way with houses. Look at practically any recently built home in a subdivision. Nine times out of ten it is a shade of beige. I live in a red house because beige is boring.

Lekker > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:24

Are you having a tough time getting a specific color for the Juke?

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > Blondude
07/28/2014 at 15:24

EXACTLY MY POINT
I'd love an "In Violet" Ford mustang!

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
07/28/2014 at 15:24

I know.... this is the reason why I made the post actually. I was configuring a 535xd.

dinobot666 > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:25

Both my car and truck are some variation of a silvery color. I bought them used, so it's just a coincidence and I really didn't care much about the color.

If I were buying new, I'd probably be more selective. I'm thinking my next car might be a Forester XT in some kind of red.

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > camaroboy68ss
07/28/2014 at 15:25

20 years is too long! plus what might be popular then? CHROME PAINT???

Stapleface-Now Hyphenated! > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:25

This is a discussion my wife and I have all the time. When looking in a parking lot or sitting in traffic, all you see is varying shades of the absence of light. Very rarely will you even see a blue or red, and they're always the same shade.

This is one of the reasons I bought my car in the color I did. Plus, its super easy to find in a parking lot.

Kinja'd!!!

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:25

Dat coincidence. I was configuring a 550i...

camaroboy68ss > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:26

that and cars will probably be wrapped instead of painted

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > Lekker
07/28/2014 at 15:26

no, because my choice is metallic white, black or grey. i'm going either white or black with red striping though

STREPITUS > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:27

Yep. I tend to revisit this topic every so often

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/green-used-to-…

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/autoblog-how-e…

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/2014-audi-colo…

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/car-manufactur…

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > Logansteno: Bought a VW?
07/28/2014 at 15:27

nice! I like the XD more, because EXTRA DEFFINITION CARS!

Bandit > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:27

"Everything is chrome in the future." - spongebob

Blondude > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:27

Or call it by the (not at all PC) rejected name "Statutory Grape".

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > Bandit
07/28/2014 at 15:28

^THIS. ALL THE THIS.

Logansteno: Bought a VW? > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:28

I just always see the laughing face emoji thing.

xD(rive)

Fed(oo=[][]=oo)uken > Blondude
07/28/2014 at 15:28

Vitamin C!!!!!!11!!!!1!

Manuél Ferrari > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:35

The problem here is the same problem with manual transmissions: us.

Gearheads like to buy cars used.

People that buy new cars tend to get automatics and non-colors.

If we bought more new cars Manuél would be healthier right now and there would be more colorful cars on the road.

But we don't want to because new cars are expensive... I'm as guilty as everyone else. I almost never buy new.

Sn210 > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:46

if I had my own car company, I'd make cars available in red, blue, yellow, green, purple, etc. Just straight up, regular colors. Id imagine paint colors this basic would be pretty cheap to get, and my cars wouldn't look like anything else on the road. Win win.

JGrabowMSt > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 15:59

there are plenty of colors that are simply beautiful. Take a pearlescant white for example. Its "just white," but its a gorgeous color. I think theres an arctic white, and its the prettiest white I have ever seen.

There are also varying shades of gray that do look great depending on the car. There are also different shades of black, like my wagon which has a pearl coat, or matte black, or gloss regular black.

If you dont like the color, repaint the car whatever color you want.

chaozbandit > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 16:11

But when you do finally see a car that does not rock the traditional colours, it does brighten your day a little bit. The vinyl wrap game in my city has recently blown up so the issue is being mitigated somewhat. Unrelated, but here is an art-car liveried E46 from the recent Importfest show in Toronto.

Telumektar > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 18:29

My new neighbours are like this, a young couple with two little kids :D

But their car is a grey Peugeot 307... and the man's father drives a grey '08 Corolla... and his sister drives a grey Nissan March... and the woman's father a grey Lancer and so and so. What's with that? Were all of them advised against buying cars in enjoy-your-life colours? I'm not kidding, there must be something like that going on, because at their last family reunion there were no less than 9 cars parked on our street... ALL IN GREY.

Fuck grey.

Spasoje > PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
07/28/2014 at 20:16

Agreed, with the exception of white. It's the only color that shows off a car's lines most effectively and that has an understated elegance at the same time.

There's a special place in hell for silver cars, however.

Uzgred, kako je (ne)vreme tamo?? Gledao sam neke snimke danas...sve u BG-u poplavnjeno, katastrofa!

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > Spasoje
07/29/2014 at 04:02

Agreed. white can be nice, and so can grey and black. problem is it's just too common!

za Beograd, da se ne poveruje! svako vece plusti, puca, I poplavlja! pre 3 dana je jedan grom pogodio hram sv. save! cak I meteorolozi govore da ovakvo vreme nisu videli u zadnjih 100 godina!