Shite colours in modern cars

[MK5 Escort]

As 'what it says on the tin', can anyone think of any colours in the more modern, relatively standard-model cars which are most definitely an acquired taste. In an era when we now see more and more cars in various shades of tedious silver, can you think of any modern car which has a factory colour which truly stands out from the crowd. Obviously being Autoshite, I'm interested in colours which aren't so popular and for the purposes of this thread, I'd rather rule out special colours you see in the likes of sporty Skodas, Fords e.t.c... See my examples below:

 

Back in the very late nineties Vauxhall had a couple of crackers. Does anyone remember the deeply unpopular ‘Antelope’? Lovely! At this time they also done another cracker in the MK4 Astra called 'Carriage Green', which was like a solid army mid-green. Sadly, they're so few and far between that I can't find any examples to show you. (This is not Apple Green which was found in the Corsa of the same vintage – it was notably deeper).

 

I’m told at work that we may possibly (depending on striking a good deal) taking delivery sometime this month of a new pools car – a pre-registered Audi A4 S-Line. The boss has eyed up a 'cheap' one he's going to try and get cheaper. It's in a relatively new fetching shade known as Teak Brown. After a quick internet search, I was rather shocked that this is also available in the R8. Mmmm…Brown! Sporty!

 

Do you know what the saddest and most embarrassing thing about it all is? I really like these colours…!

 

So, can any fellow shiteists think of more colours in the more modern vehicles (i.e – mid/late nineties onwards) which have the potential of being ‘official’ Autoshite colours in the future? Colours which perhaps make the general public want to vomit but make us here think "Hmmm….nice/different!".

[Volksy]

I remember from my days at Alfa, that they did the 156 in a curious shade of invacar blue. I thought it quite suited it.

[seth]

If Audi are doing it, brown will be the new silver. Can you imagine what the streets would look like!

[Alexg]

Cars are often launched with a choice of horrible seat trim which are usually deleted from the range by the first model year update. The MK5 Astra was launched with an optional black and orange or Blue and light grey trim. I'll try and find some pictures but they looked awful and everyone picked standard charcoal.

[Cavcraft]

I once had the great displeasure of driving an A-class Merc with orange seats. It was vomit inducing.

[Rocket88]

Russet brown.................."nuff said

[Pillock]

Brown is ace. More brown cars please!

[Rod/b]

Gusset brown.................."nuff said

 

EFA

[ashmicro]

My friend got a spanking new Insignia as a courtesy car when her 407 got squashed. I can't remember what fancy name GM gives it, but to you and me it was dark brown, with dark brown and silver interior. It had shatnav, aircon, MP3 etc. And no back wiper. WTF?

[Tayne]

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[tonedepear]

You want brown?

 

I give you the facelift Impian 2-tone guiness-shit over IPA shit dashboard. Mmm.

 

[Station]

 

I think it was called Bronze? I remember some Audis and Jaguars in the 90's could come in fluorescent green.

[CreepingJesus]

I remember from my days at Alfa, that they did the 156 in a curious shade of invacar blue. I thought it quite suited it.

 

Agreed, but I think only an Italian motor could make such an eccentric colour choice look cool.

I remember my dad's first Cav estate being 'army surplus' green, but that was some time ago. There was also Jamaica Yellow, slightly more recently, which wasn't one of VX's better applied paints.

 

I blame focus groups for the 10yr+ run of 10 types of 'silver' dominating the paint charts. Whatever happened to choice?

Still, if they want to give us some nice new 'rich' colours, I'll be happy to pick one up for buttons in 10yrs!

[Negative Creep]

It all depends on fashion. In 20 years time silver and white could be seen as the height of shite. Try configuring something like a new astra - the colour selection is beyond dismal

[CreepingJesus]

^True, but I remember the turning point being the mad insistence around '98 or so, that silver was 'the millenium colour'. Somehow it never went away.

At the time, Ford in particular had a nice colour choice, with some really handsome dark metallics, which made even your boggo Mondeo or Scorp look quite nice. Personally, that's all I'm after: a return to the days when you could have a choice of lighter or darker reds, blues and greens, with a few 'outside' choices thrown in. Days when Silver was the extra extra cost option, along with black.

Hell, whatever happened to gloss paints? They were easy to fix if it got chipped or scraped!

[Pillock]

My old Scirocco, with a lovely brown outside:

 

And a lovely brown inside! Apparently the brown dash was super-duper rare. And very brown.

[ashmicro]

^^This, is made of win.

[tonedepear]

That gear stick looks like a long flaccid cock

[trigger]

I've just seen one of these in proper OAP spec non-metallic beige, I can't even find a photo of one on the interweb as it's so far of the scale!

 

[Lord Sterling]

 

These were pretty shite, mostly seen on early mk4 escorts and mk2/3 Fiestas. Mind, most solid colours had that touch of shite about them anyway.

[chaseracer]

Domestic Management nearly specced her new C3 in this particularly daring pastel shade, until being persuaded otherwise.

 

 

Lucky escape. It looks even worse in the metal...

[Pillock]

 

[Negative Creep]

Further to my last post, the new Astra is available in:

 

Red

White

Silver

Grey

Another silver

Yet another silver, slightly lighter this time

Green (actually grey with a green tint)

Pale blue

Black

 

 

 

Wow. Exciting huh? At least the Focus also offers orange and yellow

[Richard]

I was following a BINI today that was in a similar shade of gold to that rattle can special Corsa that was on the eBay thread recently. I don't know if it was a standard colour or if it really had been rattle canned.

[Cavcraft]

Jamaica Yellow was an ace colour, ditto the green Scirocco pictured above and the new Scirocco metallic green.

 

Jag went through a phase of some bloody horrific/garish colours for the X300(?) models from about 1994 onwards.

[Gompo]

I saw one of these in this colour earlier today, I thought it looked shit:

 

[triang1]

Further to my last post, the new Astra is available in:

 

Red

White

Silver

Grey

Another silver

Yet another silver, slightly lighter this time

Green (actually grey with a green tint)

Pale blue

Black

 

 

 

Wow. Exciting huh? At least the Focus also offers orange and yellow

 

Alfa Romeo can do better than that!

 

Available colours for the 159 are...

Black

Dark blue that looks like black

White

Red

Silver

Another Silver

Yet Another Silver

Yet another another silver...

 

4 effing silvers - I don't blame the millenium - I blame the years of Daily Express etc motoring columns that told everyone that silver was the best colour for getting a good resale price. So every Joe Soap buys silver ( Or black if they don't want to fork out for metalic).

 

Makes me weep for the days of Java Green, Bamboo, Bahama Blue, Seacrest Green... anything but effing silver.

[155V6]

I remember from my days at Alfa, that they did the 156 in a curious shade of invacar blue. I thought it quite suited it.

My Brother's 156 is metallic beige,we went to the Auto Italia day & Brooklands on Saturday & didn't see another one the same colour

[Pillock]

[CIH]

they did celica supras in two tone brown;