Kiltox Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 I've just ordered an Audi A3 in "glossy primer" (in my defence, there were colours available but the lease company said FRO, it's black, silver or grey)This is the sad reason why all of the 320d I’m looking at are white, silver or grey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraWomble Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Mrs Womble likes Blue.Hence the C8 is .... And unless we I am very lucky the Bingo XL will be... However I love bright gay vibrant colours and if I win the Lottery will be buying ProgRocker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Honda did “iris red pearl” in the 2000’s which was pretty much the retail kiss of death unless you happened to like bright pink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alusilber Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Is that a similar shade to laquered primer they keep churning out. I fucking hate that colour, it makes me think they simply couldn’t be arsed to paint and said “fuck it just laquer the primer” Yes, that's the one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asimo Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Honda call this colour "Citrus" but I think of it as "electric cystitis yellow" Weirdly it seems to be the most sought-after colour for these cars. Now if it was a proper solid yellow I could understand. UltraWomble and Bamboocarman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraWomble Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 Can we for a moment turn our attention to the blandness of the inside as well as the outside.Apart from Nissan in the early 2000's car manufacturers seem to have lost their mojo sometime in the very early 90's and have been churning out soul crushingly depressing interiors since then. Places that suck the very life out of you. Citroens colour and trim chart apart from the splash of knife fight red is a totally depressing monochromatic souls sucking palate of shades of shit. Compare this to the fine places to sit from the past - not only the use of velour and velvet but the vibrancy of the colours and patterns. Everything from the luxurious crushed velvet blue of the GSA inviting you to arrive unhurried relaxed and calm to the poptastic tartans offered by Triumph, Ford, Vauxhall and others stimulating you and making the driving experience fun and exciting. The 80'and early 90s brought forth a time of exuberance and excess, the black and red stripes were very on fleek and made the driver feel that his drive was a sporting experience. Close your eyes and you could truly be Colin McRae or Louise Aitkin Walker. Even pensioner spec trim options had more colour and texture to them making stains harder to spot and still lifting the interior into a warm and inviting environment. Ive come to the conclusion that sponsored by governments that motor manufacturers actually want to turn driving into a soul crushing experience and put people off sitting behind the wheel of a car. By making the interior dark and dismal and the exterior nondescript and bland motoring is no longer an exciting way of getting from A to B. And heavens above no one would seriously think of just "going for a drive" now, thats almost the social equivalence of beating baby a seals to death and smearing your neighbours kids faces with its blood. Seriously, who would just go for a drive now? Havent you heard about the greenhouse effect?No, I think this whole bland paint palate and interior of grey, grey and more grey is a design to get people to fall out of love with their cars. JeeExEll, danthecapriman, Rusty_Rocket and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Dacia's current new car range has a disappointing choice of colours for the 'non Stepway' Sandero & Access. Well the Stepway models add 'Azurite blue' to the pallette. You can order a Duster in 'desert Orange' which I like very much. You get default white. For an extra £495: cosmos blue, slate grey, mink (brown!) or pearl black. They used to offer a shade of red on the pre-facelift models but unfortunately it seems Dacia consider this too exhilerating on a no frills family car. I bet even 30 years ago Lada had a better range colours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Proper cars on a proper production line painted in proper colours. When I am in charge every production line will be forced by law to look like a packet of Skittles. These days th most colourful thing on the assembly lines are the machines.That's all well and good, but how come every A110 I've ever seen is blue? Asimo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 RS2000 paint colours for the UK, 1976 - 80. Nice selection of solid colours. Missing from the above is Riviera blue (79) which was a brighter blue than Nordic blue.No grey, graphite, silver, gold, misty blue, etc. No metallics at all available.There was a one-off factory car in metallic Roman bronze with auto transmission made for Henry Ford II (??) to use in 1976. (pics on internet if anyone's interested)I know of a Jupiter red metallic one but it was sprayed that colour during a resto some years ago. danthecapriman, NorfolkNWeigh, Amishtat and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 More Escort colour.Mexicos at AVO, from a much simpler time. Not a huge choice of colours (only five) but the actual colours are fab. That Maize yellow (orange) colour has been a favourite for years. danthecapriman and Lacquer Peel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martc Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 I bet even 30 years ago Lada had a better range colours! Lada colours 1990 (sorry only 29 years ago). LightBulbFun, JeeExEll, Lacquer Peel and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw1977 Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Vauxhall colours 1979 You want silver, grey, black? Tough. Rusty_Rocket, danthecapriman, Lacquer Peel and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuboy Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 nordo grey?? or as i call it battleship grey... hideous colour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted March 21, 2019 Share Posted March 21, 2019 Having read this thread yesterday, I've been looking at colours today. I think if it weren't for Minis, Fiat500s, MG3s and Fabias then everything would be some shade of grey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 Leyland Australia got colours spot on. Not a shade of silver, grey or black in sight! eddyramrod, LightBulbFun, danthecapriman and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Six-cylinder Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 When I was selling cars in the 1980s there was a number of people who would not have green of any shade because it was unlucky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Snipes Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 I wonder how many beige RS2000s were made/survived? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimH Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 Funny. We think of arsehole colour names as a modern thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 Is Plum Loco a cheeky nod to Chrysler's Plum Crazy? LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 We’ve got a company van scheme at work. A shade* over 300 a month gets you a brand new Merc Vito 119 sport (insured,taxed,repairs included). Two guys so far have had one. Both silver. I’ve asked what colours are available. Silver or black. YAWN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimH Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 I long for a day that we get seat fabrics back. Tartans, pashas, checks, stripes, paisleys, Racing Crayons, tweeds, Something that someone has sat down and designed. Something that makes you smile when you open the car door. Something that makes it a nice place to be. What do we have now? From the Americas and the far east greasy leathers that make you think you'll never feel clean again. From Europe we have the same flat, joyless, may as well be plastic leather and from the premium manufacturers the only thing they can do is quilt everything and make it look more like a bondage dungeon. Great. Once upon a time it was the plebs that had to put up with leather while the posh boys got cloth. Go and look at pictures of Voisins and try not to go "wow" at their unbelievably expensive interiors. We've already had the TR7 and Chevette HS but just to add a few more to remind people what we miss today. Tartan for the common man. It is acknowledged that the S1 Esprit wasn't a brilliant car. However, who cares when you were sitting here waiting to be towed back to the garage. My personal favourite. But they could do tartan too. Even the Italians could do it right. Shock! Horror! A top of the range car without leather seats? Surely not. Cloth takes colour so much better. Big bold colours. Do this with leather and you look like an escapee from the Thriller video. What comes after awesome? What ever it is it looks like this Not quite as awesome but I'll still take it over any leather interior Remember when Discoveries were light, roomy, airy things with country cloth seats to match? You know, before they turned to shit. Perhaps the problem is that we peaked too soon. Nice seats can help even promising if slightly unreliable trains... I'm not suggesting that every interior has to look like a migraine looking for somewhere to happen but you can do so much with cloth. In these days when cars look almost exactly the same surely cloth would allow a low risk way of expressing a brand's personality. Give people the option of some pretty colours and patterns without the unpleasant greasy feel. You may say I'm a dreamer etc etc... eddyramrod, JeeExEll, Amishtat and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 With new cars the premiums they charge for anything other than black, white, silver or Red is bonkers! “Would sir like an outlandish colour, well sir better have a deep wallet!” But there does se to be a return to a metallic sludge brown on French cars lately... Old cars in brown, absolutely. Modern ones... no thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rantingYoof Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 This thread is missing a photograph of now-not-Kiltox's BMW X5, A Symphony of Brown. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Conan Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 JRGMetallic Beige still is the best colour you can have on any car, period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redfred Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 What about that metallic pink that Honda offered the Jizz in a few years ago... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LessThanEqual Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 What about that metallic pink that Honda offered the Jizz in a few years ago...Mk1 Jazz was released in 2001, early ones can legally buy a pint. Bit more than a few years ago Though the current Mk3 jazz can be had in some nice colours, like that fluorescent jacket yellow and brick orange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 I think certain colours belong on certain cars. There is a particular shade of blue which should only be on an invacar. Bright orange is for Bond Bugs. Harvest gold on anything other than a maxi is wrong. JRG on a Lexus LS400 Any others spring to mind? LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty2006 Posted March 22, 2019 Share Posted March 22, 2019 I think certain colours belong on certain cars. There is a particular shade of blue which should only be on an invacar. Bright orange is for Bond Bugs. Harvest gold on anything other than a maxi is wrong. JRG on a Lexus LS400 Any others spring to mind?Hearing aid beige on a triumph acclaim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2MB Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 I see an M3 this colour round Huddersfield sometimes and it looks brilliant jumpingjehovahs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Forgive me for this but last year I looked at the option of a new Kia Carens.(Company car allowance scheme and in need of many seats. Didn't do it in the end..) The Carens is available in white, black or two shades of silver. Dull dull dull.Each colour offered requires "VALIDATION" that is will it survive the 500 hour salt for test and UV light tests egg. Also will it require extra stock and extra change over times and extra cleaning. So much cheaper to validate one colour and never do a change over. Accountants verses stylists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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