Blue Is this Season's Smoky Lilac: Car Colors in 2009

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Automakers just got an eyeful of the colors auto paint supplier PPG Industries know will be popular in 2009, and the verdict is in: "yellows and oranges will be richer and warmer; reds will glow in deep shades of cranberry and wine, and dark brown will make a comeback." Crap, and we were hoping Candy Apple Grey would be in style again. We are so 1987.

PPG Paint Future Color Trends [The Auto Channel]

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