Silver is the new BOOOORINGGGG

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 10/13/2017 at 13:34 • Filed to: None

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Birds of a feather flock together. And then there’s me with my oddball red car...

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/13/2017 at 13:55

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Yet silver(boring colours) looks so understated on supercars. Silver on a Huracan looks stunning.

Chariotoflove > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/13/2017 at 13:56

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You’re fighting the good fight.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock 10/13/2017 at 13:57

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My favorite Ferrari 308 GTI in the July 1978 issue of R&T (which I still have) has it in silver with a red interior. Perfection.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Chariotoflove 10/13/2017 at 13:59

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When you want the 6MT you take whatever color they offer. I didn’t want red at first but now I’m glad I got it. Plus silver would have gotten me a black interior which I hate.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/13/2017 at 14:12

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How do you feel about white?

I can’t deny that car colors are really boring these days and have been for years now. Sometime around 2001 or so, everyone quit painting cars interesting colors. By about 2003 most cars were silver, gold/beige, black, or white. Even gold/beige started dropping off around 2009 or so, now it’s just the remaining three dominating the palette.

Amoore100 > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/13/2017 at 14:17

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You have a MT 5?! That must be stunning—I rented an auto from Zipcar two weeks ago and at 2500 feet here in Tucson it was struggling a bit—row your own would probably have made it much more manageable and quite fun because though it was slow, it cornered beautifully!

Nothing > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/13/2017 at 14:18

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I will try with all of my being not to own the trifecta of black/white/silver in the future. I’ve been guilty of owning each of the boring colors in the past and will make sure future purchases of cars have some sort of hue to them.

However, if I get a Land Cruiser at some point, that’ll be a tough search. Unless it’s an 80, then you can find green all day long, it seems. Which I’ve also vowed never to own because of my horrific luck with green/tan color combo vehicles. So I guess I’m screwed there.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/13/2017 at 14:20

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I thought you were saying “Silver is the new BORG”

And that made sense, silver trying to take over and make everyone part of the collective

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Amoore100 10/13/2017 at 16:46

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For such a practical vehicle it sure is a lot of fun. I wouldn’t have bought it with the auto, but with the 6MT it’s a different animal. That feature brings back happy memories of the old 968, the first car I ever had with a six speed. I was so used to having only 5 gears that I kept forgetting to upshift to 6th in that one, but in the Mazda it’s natural.

Svart Smart, traded in his Smart > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/13/2017 at 19:49

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I wish my car were red.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/13/2017 at 20:34

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Quod Erat Demonstrandum.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Eric @ opposite-lock.com 10/13/2017 at 20:36

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White’s not bad these days due to the relative rarity. It can be especially nice if it’s something a little different from the normal refrigerator white, a touch off white perhaps. I tend to go for the underdog, so if something is popular I try to avoid it, and no, I’m not a hipster...

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Nothing 10/13/2017 at 20:46

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I’ve always wanted a green/tan vehicle, or maybe even green/red (don’t laugh - it can look quite good; see Adam Carolla’s Aston Martin).

I’ve done black, twice - never again. I guess I didn’t learn my lesson. I’ve had a few white cars, but they were mostly hand-me-downs or other freebies, so I can’t really complain. I once bought a beige car because it was beige; I was building a sleeper so I wanted something dull and boring. The closest I’ve had to silver was Delphin Grey on the E34, and I love that color with it’s slight hint of green. I want to paint everything that color; either that color or the Copper Red Mica on my Mazda5, another color that has become an absolute favorite.

We need to be buying more blues and greens and yellows, maybe even orange cars. And they have to have contrasting interior colors. Nothing could be as dull as matched interior and exterior (like my dad’s first two BMWs - beige on beige). Black on black is also a snoozer. A friend had a nearly identical E34 to mine, right down to the 5MT, with the only difference between our cars being the interior color. Grey interior with dark grey exterior? Yawn. Beige interior with the dark grey exterior? Subtle, elegant, tasteful. If the exterior was beige I wouldn’t be saying the same thing.