<![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color? - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color? - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Exactly... waiting in the street I counted that 99.8% of cars over £10000 where silver and the rest where grey and dark green and one brown-green-bile Vanquish, and all the bangers and vans were silver and red and white!
Why do people decide to be mindnumbingly unimaginative? Bring back yellow and cream and pink and orange black with orange and green and Chrome! Gotta love Chrome! why just two-tones, what wrong with three tones and 5 tone interiors! Make a Production art car, but not a rubbish one like the mini!


Bazza

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> More Color!!

BMW used to have fantastic colors available. Sure, not everybody would buy them, but I would!

Porsche has a fantastic 'any color you want' option that would only be better if they could do two-tone. I know almost nobody uses it, but that's okay. It's good that it's there for those of us who want to see something different.

ihateauditions

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Yes, more color. I'm in love with the crazy lotus colors as well, we've got an orange and a yellow in town, and there's this cherry red lambo around too. And a girl down the street who drives an orange fiat as her daily driver.

Now, I seem to be stuck in the land of black honda civics with white pinstripes, but the project truck is a flaking away bright red (its second or third color, depending on the body panel) and we're debating whether or not to two-tone it and just how much chrome it needs.

cq

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Yes, more colors! When I got my Mazdaspeed6 I had the choice of gray, silver, bright red, and black. Not wanting a cop magnet, and gray and silver being so...gray, I went with black. They had a nice black cherry color the previous year though. I am annoyed that manufacturers offer so many shades of gray (titanium, silver, carbon...) but no nice greens or blues or dark reds. Gray has become the 2000s equivalent of brown for the 1970s.

zedmanauk

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @SavageATL: YES!!! In 1976 you could get 11 different colors of leather in a Cadillac Sedan de Ville, or 6 different colors of Magnan knit fabric, or 2 different plaids, or 2 different velours -- that's twenty-one different interiors in all. And remember these cars were marketed to the same people who now obediently take their DTS's and Lexi in some shade of gunmetal with either tan or black interior, that's it. Boring.

sassycaddy

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> My next car is going to be a 96-up E-class Benz, and it HAS to be black. I will take no other color.

Muscle-car era stuff goes for more money in the bright, eye-grabbing colors than they do in the plain stuff. There were TONS of triple green GTO's and beige Chevelles built in the 60's and early 70's, but you'd be hard-pressed to find many these days.

How many people order a new car these days anyway? I don't know of any, I'm betting that 99% or more of new car buyers are picking something off the lot. Lowest common denominator means lots of "champagne" colored boringmobiles.

squablow

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> This has been one of my gripes for a long time. When did silver become the dominating color? It isn't really a color. The color should be as carefully thought out as every other part of the car--wait. The color should be very carefully thought out.

NovaloadMissesPolar

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @NICKNICK: How about a Sandstone Beige Corvette?

danio3834

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @badco-fascism: Unfortunately BMW aren't offering the 1 series coupé in white. That pisses me off greatly, because I think it would look fantastic. Maybe with a red leather interior for good measure.

Incidentally, while we're on the subject, is it just me or should the M models have the option of white paint with red and blue stripes along the flanks, like the old 3.0CSL?

@optic: Check out the Maserati car configurator. There's hours of fun to be had there. As well as choosing your exterior colour from a surprisingly wide palette, you can choose the finish of the alloys, the colour of the brake calipers and the colours of almost every part of the interior, right down to the stitching.

Euromobile

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I love the two-tone color options and interiors in the c30 builder on the volvo site. and I have spent many happy moments customizing minis on the mini site. not that I ended up buying either, but I'd pay a premium to do custom colors. I love that with the c30, for example, you can make a black car with like red trim and red interior -- a nice mix of elegant and spicy.

I miss the 70s colors of bmw 2002s and porsche 914s -- oranges, yellows, greens. screw resale!

optic

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Wow, they used my QOTD suggestion.... I feel honored.

UDMan

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I think that part of the reason most people (i.e. not people who read jalopnik, boring people basically) get understated colors like grey, black, white becouse it makes the cars much easier to sell. Im no expert, but would you choose the purple Grand Am or the Grey one. And if you chose the puple one, go reexamineyour life

Schm is not particularly sure what he is ranting about. . .

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @badco-fascism: That's BMW Alpine White, you mongo.

badco/LoJ

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Every car should be offered in white. GM Arctic White and BMW Arctic White are both fantastic.

badco/LoJ

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> My grandfather has an '86 Gunmetal gray Peugeot...well, I guess one could also call it cheap faded paint...but it's flat gray either way

PЯide

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> for me, i'm just waiting for the day of factory matte. i don't care what color, i just want to see matte paint options.

tr

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @stu-rock: Another good thing about my fiberglass dune buggy: really BIG metal flakes in purple gelcoat.

Tanshanomi

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @eltonito: Squant (and Negativland) FTW!

I really rather like my Subaru's Indigo Blue Pearl, i.e., a dark metallic blue that looks fantastic when it's shiny.

I had a neighbor once with a Sublime Green 69 Roadrunner convertible. I loved how eye-searing it was, offset by the black roof and flat-black stripes on the hood.

Paul Y. -- Now With More Sodium!

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I agree with most of the entry intro, especially on the horrific overuse of Silver, which belongs on just a few cars, despite it's insurance-premium-dropping mojo.

Today's restrictions are clearly a collaboration between: the Used Car Dealer Cabal, The Bilderberg Conspiracy, and the Invisible Hand that tried to keep Murilee's R8, ii from ever seeing the light of day.

I like at least the Idea of the color configurator on Jaguar's site, if not 1 or 3 of the restrictions.

Some people really need to be saved from themselves. They have in general, quite awful taste, and wailing out the entire chipbook would give them more than enough rope to hang themselves.

However, @rgseidl: I'm LOVing the idea of the 38 Colors and 3 levels of Gloss -as long as 32 of those are different varieties of Grey.

@Mad_Science: !!!- Yes, champagne must die, as must purple.

Love to see more BR Green.

Mustard and Ketchup don't do it for me in Ferraris -Blu Scuro is cooler.

Lambo def. got it right with the Nuclear Orange, esp on the SL.

wonkydonky

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> In general, I want cars offered with more colors and more color saturation. And I want two or more colors on the same car. And metallics should have larger flakes.

Personally, though, I want my cars not to draw attention. My Buick is eye-searing white, which is an acceptable compromise between my competing desires for brightness and stealth. The bright blue-green interior helps, too.

The bottom line—yes, I want more color, but I want other people to do it. It's NIMBY hypocrisy so I can't complain in good conscience.

Whenever I see a brightly colored car—even if I think it's an ugly color—I give the driver an imagined thumbs-up. I applaud you, Mr. Lime-Green-Metallic Ponitac Sunfire Driver. You are awesome.

stu-rock

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I could go for some more interesting colours on cars. So many colour charts these days focus on the dull, bland end of the spectrum. It's depressing.

Some of the colours of bygone days are a bit insipid now, but what happened to cheerful yellows and blues, bright greens, orange (not those copper metallics), gold and beige? You used to be able to buy a Mercedes-Benz in bright solid orange for Heaven's sake!

Euromobile

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @danio3834: exactly. just look at house colors. you can make hundreds of color variants w/ them, and EVERYONE chooses suburban tan, or some variation.
I would, however, welcome the two-tones and other retro paint schemes on retro-based models. Looks like Dodge has the market cornered on these so far.
I'm a huge fan of the metallic sunburst orange commonly found on new Eclipses, which I've had many people tell me is hideous. We'll see what the color forecasts say for the next round (wish i could tell you what they are, but i missed the last color forecast presentation a week ago).

mikedrawcar is back! (limited time only)

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> i meant broad by the way not Borat!

yellofury * * * * *

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> depends on the car really
I always thought BMW=Black personally and Lambo=Red
anyways both of my cars are silver but they both work for each car
Given some colors actually make the car look cheap
I saw an Audi Q7 in black and it looked like a Ford
but the next day there was one in a Creme white thats screamed luxury.

anyways I have had cars in a borad spectrum so to say of colors so you cant accuse me of being a silver fanatic:

1985 Buick Century Custom sedan - white w/red pinstriping (not a p&*!y magnet)
1986 Buick Century Limited station wagon - metallic sky blue
1993 Nissan Sentra XE - burgundy mist (looks red in some light and purple in others)
1995 Altima SE - Super Black
2000 Nissan Maxima GLE - silver
2001 Suzuki Swift GL- Silver

yellofury * * * * *

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @danio3834: a mere reflection of the people who select the colors? not if you follow the mulletia principle of business up front, party in the back. a beige car gives you the anonymity to do the nuts-ass shit you can't get away with in a red corvette.

NICKNICK

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> More colors are most definitely need in the auto world. Up until the 90's, Cadillac for instance offered around 18-20 colors. In fact you could special order any color offered in past by Cadillac. So If you just loooooved that Persian Lime '74 Coupe Deville, you could order that same color on your spankin' new '78 Seville.
[www.car-nection.com]


cadkev

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> The colors that exist out there now are a mere reflection of the people who selected those colors.

I personally would like to see more colors on the palette, but I think we all know the average Joe and Jane are going to keep checking off "sandstone beige" and "silver birch".

danio3834

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> When I lived in Tucson, a contractor who lived a few houses over used to collect 'different' factory painted cars. He would wait a few years and buy them used. Usually at a great discount. Dodges, Fords, and even a British racing green 308 GTSomething Ferrari (who would do that to a Ferrari???? Original according to the spec sheet.) His last purchase was an Orange-ish Eclipse. He also used to live in a huge slumpblock home (4500+) Even some of the interior walls were made of the stuff....something about skimming a few pallets on/at every job site.

LandofID

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> It does seem that they do all the standard colors, and every year of production they do one oddball color that only lasts just for that year.They tend to do this with the youth and sports cars. I dig that, and I understand the costs. But it should be done a bit more, and I think some of these standard colors could be more interesting, especially the blues and tans.

STORC

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I was born in '81, so I caught the tail end of the era of British Leyland colours.

Consequently, I would like to see more Mustard Yellow, Sandpiper Beige, Oak Green, Mulberry, Chocolate and Royal Blue.

I would also like a Triumph 2500TC to wear it.

I am utterly sick of silver cars, though. My Saab is a dark burgundy metallic. Quite a change around here from the usual silvers, graphites and blacks, and it makes the driveway more colourful.

Rust-MyEnemy is stll out there!

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I had a Durango that was "Light Satin Driftwood Glow". The worst part is that after you finished laughing at the name, you realized it was accurate. Scary. The DMV was not amused.

mcguirev10

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> More colours and fewer wasteful doodads.

velocecrat

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> In Europe, you can get e.g. a VW Golf Comfortline in any of 38 exterior colors (shades of grey, red, blue, purple, green and yellow plus several levels of gloss). There are also 6 options for the interior materials, each in three colors (all shades of grey or brown).

Even for a model that sells in very high volume, that is quite a smorgasboard. Budget brand Skoda offers 12 exterior colors for its Octavia. Upmarket Audi offers 15 for its A4, plus an individualization option. It's worth asking if the inevitable manufacturing overheads in the factory paint shop are justified. The European car market is contracting, last not least because new cars are increasingly out of reach for middle-income families.

Btw: color choices are actually determined very early on in the genesis of a vehicle because they have such an impact on consumer acceptance. Most manufacturers are indeed limited to roughly half a dozen shades by the paint shops in their assembly lines. Consequently, they fret about their ability to anticipate consumer fashions in car colors and end up picking a few muted hues plus white and black. Bringing back gaudy 70s favorites like chocolate brown, orange, lime green or canary yellow is a major gamble.

rgseidl

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> How about nonsensical colors.

Sunglow Black
Hot Navy
Blizzard Red

Dr.Danger is in Denial

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @jonnylieberman:

Couple that with an accent color of p***y magnet yellow.

Just sayin'

pitchpitch Type-Я

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @ FLB

Holy God, I think that interior just hypnotized my pants off!

STORC

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> The Lotus Elise yellow-green is by far the most retinal searing of any car I've seen in person. It's stunning... the GTI orange is also distinctive.

The only color I can't really get behind is purple.

Modern paint is rather expensive...as nanoparticle technology progresses I predict we'll eventually see unlimited options for not only exterior paint, but interior bits and even the color of the tires themselves.

brandegee

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Owning a fleet of greyscale cars myself, I'm not really opposed to color. I just really hate anything occupying the red-to-brown spectrum that to me screams rental cars and old people. Anything that's close to burgundy, maroon, or "champagne" needs to be wiped from the face of the earth.

Not big on purple, but flamboyance has its place.

To me, nothing's sexier than black. White and grey tend to hold up best to scratches and dents.

Mad_Science

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> There's a Chocolate Brown B5 Audi A4 that parks near my work. It's really striking. I haven't seen that color on any other Audi before or since.

teargas

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @NICKNICK: My Focus is Liquid Gray, which doesn't suggest the fact it's actually dark metallic graphite.

My dad's chose Navy Blue for his new Accord, but Honda has a metallic green that looks pretty good on it, especially with tan leather.

@STORC:

1978 Porsche 928:

[lanestrimshop.com]

FLB

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @pride156: in the interest of streamlining, if you take the "tomato red" out of that sentence, it is still just as true.

harumph

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I'm OK with more colors, as long as there are more blacks. I only light black cars, unless there is some outstanding color for a sports car. I really would like to have the metallic black used on the Saturn Outlook, it's purrdy when it's clean.

WesR

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Hey, the Sultan's F1 in Black and Spaz isn't too boring. [img162.imageshack.us]

FЯeeMan

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> The tomato red Monte-Carlos of the 90's were another low.

PЯide

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Im also for the interior colors. The SKA-TASTIC plaid GTI interior kicks ass. Makes me wanna skank my pickle

STORC

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I'm sure it's been said, but in general cars tend look their best as a grey/silver. That's why so much advertising uses it. Other colors are more difficult to render in ad quality.

Also, I prefer the simple classic colors for cars...Black. Not to mention, I've been jaded by the awful colors of the 80's such as some metallic pink and turquoise colors.

Miscellanea

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I like the various Lotus Elise colors. I think I'd have to get one in a bright color so other drivers don't run over the car.

j6r

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @tentacles: Veyron?

FЯeeMan

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Audi TT in Crayola Grey pls.

PЯide

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I want a yellow S4 Avant. Nothing beats a yellow station wagon. I read that Audi only imported 1 yellow S4 Avant of the most recent model. That is going to take forever for me to find on the used market.

Yellow, Orange, and Neon Green need to see more road time.

TheGuinnessTooth

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Worst colors-
M3 blue on an Excalade (spelling intentional)
Green Del-Sols
02 Canary Yellow WRXs
03 Salsa Yellow WRXs (Vomit colored)
Mexi-Chrome anything
mormon-white

Good colors-
Ferrai Fly (P-Magnet) Yellow
Blood Red
Black obsidian pearl
Mazdaspeed Protoge Salmon-(it was daring, ugly, but different)

What ever happened to brown and orange racing stripes?

What happened to 2-tone paint?

PЯide

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Definitely, more color! BMW Laguna Seca Blue, The matte tan/khaki Honda Element. Porsche in the early 70's, there's also a great dark purple Mazda I've seen around.Those always get my attention, and one day, they'll be classics. How about more NON METALIC colors I would buy any car in a non metallic blue, metallic is just a cop out, since it reflects so much color. The same goes for appliances! Why is everything stainless!? Wait a minute, what website is this? Where can I rant about that?

STORC

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> i'm all for more choice, but i'd still pick graphite. it was a sad time in the 90s when all i could get was silver, but now that everyone has gone *super* boring, i have all the grays i could ever want. if it weren't for boring sheetmetal, this would be a fantastic time for me to be alive. maybe next year i'll pick up that galactic gray mx-5 i've been making humping moves at.

as for the interior: get a grenade, pull the pin, stick it in a can of black paint, shut the door, hold your ears, scrape the windows clean and you're done. i want to feel like i'm in a hole. i want to bump into the armrest because i can't see it. i want driving "submarine commander" to mean something again.

NICKNICK

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Q:Do cars need more color?
A: No, but maybe color needs to find more cars, otherwise you end up with colors desperate to find a home, living in shelters or worse...

Me? I'm waiting for the recently discovered fourth primary color, squant, to make it onto cars.


eltonito

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @jonnylieberman: how about khmer rouge?

harumph

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> It does seem that 80% of a certain model are always a certain color. A few examples of older ones:
late 80's early 90s Honda Accord, Dark blue
Honda del sol, green
early 90's Geo Prizm/Toyota Corrola, dark green
Infinity Q45 (1st gen) white
ANY Mercedes (in the last 10 years), silver

Maybe that is just because I have know people with some of these cars and think I see them on the road, get closer and realize it isn't them.






P161911

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> As soon as I have enough bank, I'm going to make myself a Harleqinn out of the most inappropriate VAG product possible. Maybe an RS4, or a S8.

tentacles

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> When the RX-8 first came out, I was seriously torn between the dark teal green with the gold metallic flake and the red with the gold metallic flake. Both were pretty outrageous colors for any car, but looked right at home on the RX-8. Nordic Green (as it was named) is no longer offered but I believe the red is still available and used on other Mazdas.

...and then I ended up choosing non-metallic black. BUT because the red and black leather interior went well with it.

1300ccsoffury

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> The "staples" are always there... black, white, red, blue, gray/silver. It's like that with almost all consumer products, from MP3 players to guitars to automobiles.

There has actually been quite a lot of great colour happening lately. Beautiful "rootbeer metallic" and copper/orange on the Honda Element. The Camry and Escape hybrids coming in interesting shades of metallic green. Lots of copper/orange everywhere. Even Buick is doing a nice metallic brown on the Enclave.

But what it comes down to is buyer preference. People are conservative. And they want to keep the resale value high by sticking with colours with mass appeal. (This also applies to rental and lease fleets, which need to preserve high residual values.)

So i think the colours are out there... they're just not being ticked off on the option sheet as much, so we see parking lots that are a sea of shades of gray.

gotsmart

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Statutory Grape.

Just sayin'

Jonny Lieberman

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Depends on the car. But yes, I'd love some real color choices. Not 4 shades of gray/silver, gold, white, black, "hello officer" red, and a medium blue.
I don't mind white, but very few cars look good in it. Beige should be outlawed. Not even Foci or Camrys should have beige inflicted on them.

@WheatKing: Why does that VW scream Fischer Price?
@SavageATL: You beat me to it. What happened to red and blue interiors? Especially blue interiors. I really miss that option.



JayP71

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I've really enjoyed the black on warm tan two-tone interior of my current and last V-dub. Nothing outlandish or ritzy, but it doesn't look like an appliance, which can't be said for most cars on the road. I do take issue with the bi-polar selection of most exterior colors. If it isn't the shades of grey, silver, or champagne-beige, then you might get to choose "Pull-Me-Over" Red or the appalling Hard-Hat Yellows from more recent years. I've got nothing against red, what have you, but color doesn't have to sear the retinas. How about some rich tones in the middle ground of intensity for those of us who would rather pass on KitchenAid Vanilla and I'd-Rather-Die-In-Ball-of-Flames Red? Sophisticated taste in paint shouldn't be limited to the supercar set

Shaman

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @Dr.Danger:
People would still pick PMS 286 all the time, though.

Al Navarro

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Cars need more color on the INSIDE. Look at new cars today, and for the most part, you have the choice between black, gray, and beige. Sometimes there's some very desaturated brown, and occasionally (BMW and Saturn, I'm looking at you here), there's nice rich browns, and some sporty cars have colored trim.
But, in general, the choices are black, gray, and dirty gray, and that's just entirely lame if you ask me. It's as if interior designers have forgotten that such things as color palettes exist and can be applied to plastics/fabrics/leather, and instead they're just told to use more (usually fake) metal trim or (often fake) wood trim if it's a car for old people.
How about something creative and attractive that could make the inside of a car seem like a nice place to be, and letting people have some interesting actual choices to match their personality and tastes?

sandwich_pants

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> -Shit brown 1979 F250 4x4 Manual.

Where are all the new shit brown ford trucks?

SexCpotatoes

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I'm currently pimping a ridiculously-spoilered and questionably-scooped turbocharged Neon, so being the narcissist that I am, I chose black in an attempt to minimize visibility.

Recently, however, I've come to the realization that I have the automotive attention span of a ferret, and I have an unconquerable urge to drive something different every couple of years. Thus, my next vehicle will be leased, in which case I could give a shit less about the tribulations of reselling a white-on-burgundy 135i, or finding a buyer that thinks Hugger Orange is as silly-ass-sweet as I do. Just hand in the keys.

Garebear

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I think they should give you a full pantone swatch book and you pick your own color. That would be fun.

Dr.Danger is in Denial

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> my crx is "celestial blue pearl" it isn't flashy but it is a shade you don't see so much on cars.
the era of 17 shades of beige and 12 of silver are wearing on me. whenever i see a car in an interesting shade it really makes me happy. by all means cars should have a wider array of colors.

harumph

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> More colors and less metallics.

Cars should come in black, white, a few grays/silver (silver matallic is ok) a few reds, a few blues, a few greens and if it's a 'sporting' car, a few oranges, purples, and yellows.

Just my thought.

Gavin082

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Personally I'll buy my cars in any colour... as long as that colour is black.

disgustepated

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Apparently, he has not seen the "Crave" CR-V commercials.

hootjigga

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I do like names like Grigio Ingrid and Swaters Blue...but those would seem overly pretentious when spec'ing out a Camry.

I don't know if I desire more color choice for myself, since these days we are going basic black for non-Se7en cars. What I do have a problem with is the relative lack of interior combos based on your choice of exterior color.

Al Navarro

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Who can forget the schizo's favourite car.. the VW Golf Harlequin.. [www.rossvw.com]

It's the whole frickin crayola box..

Either that.. or the depends on which way the light is coming from Mystic Cobra.. [www.dragtimes.com]

i'm with Savageatl.. we need more interior colours than grey, black, beige..

WheatKing

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Has anyone else fallen for that shade of green that Aston Martin uses which is not quite British Racing Green, or even the Aston Martin Racing Green, but more metallic? Or is it just me...?

JoeKing

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> My medium grey Camry and my wife's dark grey Subie wagon are making y'alls flashy-colored cars out there lookin' pretty good.

lascauxcaveman

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Cars need more INTERIOR colours the way they did 15-20 years ago. Now all you can get is black, which often looks grim, cubicle grey, which is dismal and shows dirt, or beige, which gets filthy. Beige is a good colour for hiding dirt and hiding from the cops. Nothing is less visible than a beige four-door sedan.

SavageATL

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> When I become supreme, and omnipotent ruler of the world I'm going to outlaw silver and white cars so fast those bimmer badges will spin.

Everybody knows gray is just another word for boring, therefore silver is just light boring.

Ever see a pic of a bright red or yellow Carrera GT? They look approximately 11,298,198.876 times better than the incessant blah gray ones they featured all over the place.

Oh and I don't want to hear any of that crap about designers know that silver shows off the curves best, that's complete crap.

jpech

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I vote British Leyland Applejack Green.

3wheeler

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> The problem I face as a new car buyer is this:

what hides dirt?
screw the dirt, what hides me from the fuzz?
Star-burst orange? or macadam grey? or toyota beige?



jakay11

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Absolutely! Bring back the multiple shades of orange and green offered for each model. Do I want forest green, avocado, or lime green? I'll take the latter. In metallic.

cyclopticgaze

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> @B: What, you're not a fan of Catch Me If You Can Copper?

I'm still deciding between a Mini Clubman and a Volvo C30 to replace my current Audi and its POS electrics. If I get the Volvo, I'll probably stay loyal to blue, but that Clubman-exclusive Hot Chocolate is very tempting.

Le Légende de Vincent Tremblay

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Nothing will ever be as manly or cool as Panther Pink. I actually miss mulit-colour paint jobs the most, and car designs that incorparated them (Veyron excluded)

68stang

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> A new color is just a paint job away, so if you're not happy, just change it.
My problem is with car design, Jags that look like Fords that look like Hyundays that look like Beamers...
Apart from that, gleaming pimp white is my color of choice for any car.



franzouse

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> There is a frost blue Jag xkr by my office with a gray side vent that I kinda lust after... But Xks look good in any color. I will never buy a silver car

Teds

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Call me boring, but I prefer more sedate colors. I like a car to stand out on its own merits, instead of standing out because it burns your retinas.

Then again, I would choose a sleeper over a flashy car any day. Probably explains why I have a 300HP Ford LTD instead of a Mustang....

LTDScott, Porcubimmer pilot

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> In my head, the car brands have their own signature colors: Chevy is a darkish metallic red, Ford is a dark metallic blue, and Chrysler/Dodge is babypuke tan.

Toyota is gray. Or that maddening can't-match-it pearl white. Bah.

Nissan is rust.

Mazda is brilliant go-faster electric gecko green. Don't ask me why, 'cause I don't know.

Rolls is rich oak-tanned leather brown.

Elhigh

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> Damn straight, I want Seafoam Green back.

Seth L

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> More colors is good, wacky color names is bad.

B

]]> <![CDATA[Do Cars Need More Color?]]> I agree, my car is a copper orange metallic that looks great in the sun. I worry a bit about it's resale appeal though.

Jaguar actually has some very neat colors that I see on the road once in a while.

j6r

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