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    Gray-Colored Cars Most Likely To Need Roadside Assistance According To Useless UK Study

    Black Is In, Yellow Is Out When It Comes To Used Car Color Preferences
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    11/11/08

    In reply to Gray-Colored Cars Most Likely To Need Roadside Assistance According To Useless UK Study
    I would imagine that reports of gray/grey cars being stolen are probably higher in the U.K. if only because the fog and rainy weather makes them easier to misplace...


    /Smarmy SoCal weather jab

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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    11/11/08

    In reply to Gray-Colored Cars Most Likely To Need Roadside Assistance According To Useless UK Study
    Silver, in the late 70s and early 80s, was the universal color of German Luxury. Then the Japanese emulated it, and finally everyone started doing it.


    It continues to this day, though I believe gold/champagne is the current best-seller in the states.


    Because it's nice to go 4 months without a wash and the car still looks 90% clean.

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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    11/11/08

    In reply to Gray-Colored Cars Most Likely To Need Roadside Assistance According To Useless UK Study
    Not sure if gray includes silver, but the study might suggest that owners of gray/silver cars find them depressing in the long room and are less likely to care for them.


    I bet if you were to roll back to, say, 1983, you would find the same result about brown cars.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    11/11/08

    In reply to Gray-Colored Cars Most Likely To Need Roadside Assistance According To Useless UK Study
    How about beige/taupe/gold? I think that would be the clear winner in 'Murka.
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    Image of Starlton Heston's Revenge Starlton Heston's Revenge
    11/11/08

    @FuzzyPlushroom: Dear god... Silver actually I think is #1 here too.


    This makes me think about I've become bitter as of late and totally have the "Fucking car companies pandering to people who treat the wonderful automobile as a fucking appliance!!" reaction to car commercials now...


    Alas, Audi has soul in theirs still. Many thanks to you kind peoples.

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    Image of tonyola tonyola
    11/11/08

    In reply to Gray-Colored Cars Most Likely To Need Roadside Assistance According To Useless UK Study
    Gray sounds so..well..gray. Dull. Boring. No spark.


    We need a more marketroid-type name for grey. A few suggestions:


    Autumn Smogmist

    Detroit Malaise

    Dirty Snow

    Clay Pipe (actually used by Kaiser-Frazer)

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    Image of Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it
    11/11/08

    @tonyola: Tarmac Pearlessent
    Beijing Lung Metallic
    McDonalds Salad Clearcoat
    Elephant Skintag
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    11/11/08

    @tonyola: Airport Runway

    Salted Sidewalk

    Touch of Grey

    Old Folks' Home

    Cinder Block

    Hood-Of-The-Volvo-S80-I-Saw-On-Fire-While-Traveling-Down-Route-2-On-Sunday
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/11/08

    @tonyola: Is there a "Crack Pipe White"?
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    Image of Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it
    11/11/08

    @tonyola: Pre-waxed Bea Arthur
    KKK Pickup Fender semi-gloss
    Wilford Brimley's ear hair metallic
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    11/11/08

    @Mysterious Utility Bento: There is no KKK Pickup Fender semi-gloss... it's flat only.
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    11/11/08

    @tonyola: And let's not forget...


    Dehydrated Pineapple

    Cheap Plastic Hubcap Clearcoat Metallic

    Wyse Terminal Gray

    Bare Steel (standard on most white mid-'90s cars)

    Pure Sodium (never seen rain/snow!)

    Foam Peanut

    Mortar

    Lead

    Cereal-Box Cardboard

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    Image of Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it
    11/11/08

    @FuzzyPlushroom: Morning Dew and Deer Blood does give it a semi-gloss look, though
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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    11/11/08

    In reply to Gray-Colored Cars Most Likely To Need Roadside Assistance According To Useless UK Study
    Forget flat tires and batteries. I bet the calls are mostly due to losing one's grey car in the car park when the fog or rain sets in. "Shit, it was here a minute ago"
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    Image of layabout layabout
    11/11/08

    @Ash78: Yep,it's a real pain in the arse...
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    11/11/08

    In reply to Gray-Colored Cars Most Likely To Need Roadside Assistance According To Useless UK Study
    Silver has been the most popular for some time now,when i was at Audi you could be sure the majority bought silver,followed by black.

    4 Sales in 2003

    Silver 670,984 28.62% 762,000 31% 823,000 836,000

    Black 521,808 22.25% 479,000 20% 436,000 383,000

    Blue 521,331 22.23% 543,000 22% 585,000 616,000

    Grey 308,974 13.18% 272,000 11% 244,000 204,000

    Red 191,879 8.18% 171,000 7% 201,000 236,000

    Green 32,965 1.41% 60,000 2% 117,000 176,000
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/11/08

    @layabout: Yeah. That's exactly what I was thinking. More grey cars on the road, more grey cars need AA.


    I mean, this study is completely useless.

    What do the British think they are? The Germans?!

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    Image of layabout layabout
    11/11/08

    @Parkington: No that's just the royal family.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/11/08

    @Parkington: The study says, there's more BLUE cars:


    "With more blue cars on Britain's roads than any other colour - over 7 million registered - they are nearly 15% less likely to call out a breakdown vehicle than their grey-hued counterparts."

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    11/11/08

    @NovaloadMissesPolar: If you Google most popular car colour in the U.K. most state the most popular colour is silver,from living here & having sold a few cars i'd have to agree that silver cars are more popular.
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    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    11/11/08

    @layabout: See, I was thinking that the roadside assistance thing had something to do with the popularity of those colors in the Audi/VW range.
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    Image of Stoatmaster Stoatmaster
    11/11/08

    In reply to Gray-Colored Cars Most Likely To Need Roadside Assistance According To Useless UK Study
    "UK's 1.3 million grey car drivers..."


    It's the weather; we don't get out very much.

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    Image of layabout layabout
    11/11/08

    In reply to Gray-Colored Cars Most Likely To Need Roadside Assistance According To Useless UK Study
    Not surprising,silver/grey are the best selling colours.
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    Image of combat chuck combat chuck
    11/11/08

    In reply to Gray-Colored Cars Most Likely To Need Roadside Assistance According To Useless UK Study
    Is it grey or gray?
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    Image of Stoatmaster Stoatmaster
    11/11/08

    @combat chuck: Grey in UK.


    Lots of things, actually.

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    Image of WheatKing WheatKing
    11/11/08

    @combat chuck: Depends.. you American or Canadian/British.
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    Image of Starlton Heston's Revenge Starlton Heston's Revenge
    11/11/08

    @combat chuck: common knowledge is "It Depends."


    Seriously people interchange it... so no one will ever correct you.


    IN thinking about it, I personally use both spellings but depending on what I'm referring to... odd.

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    Image of Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig) Das ASHloch (achtundsiebzig)
    11/11/08

    In reply to Gray-Colored Cars Most Likely To Need Roadside Assistance According To Useless UK Study
    These studies always seem like they're brought to you by the homework project for the local community college Excel 101 course, given Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:00 to 8:30pm.


    It's not even data mining. It's data dirt-kicking.

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