It’s not unpopular to say that there’s too many gray and silver cars. People have been saying that a lot the last few years. I just don’t run into a lot of people that prefer green. I don’t have a Ford Bronco but that green color is the the best color on the market today in my opinion.
I think I read something like 75% of all cars now are black, grey, silver, or white. About 10% blue, 5% red, and 5% of everything else.
I hate the lack of colour on the roads, it’s like a funeral procession every time I go out.
Give me the fun colours!
My first car was a bright green Peugeot 106 (the one pictured I got from google), and I bought it because it was the first decent car I’d seen that was a fun colour!
My third car - a Nissan Bluebird from 1987 - was a little lighter than the one pictured, but still, it’s easy to find nice colours on old cars!
Shout out to when Volkswagen did the Golf with every panel painted a different bright colour https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/VWGolfHarlequin_%28cropped%29.JPG/800px-VWGolfHarlequin_%28cropped%29.JPG
The harlequin wasn’t just every panel painted a different color!
It was a combination of cars. They’d take them off the line and swap panels.
I’d love to find a harlequin for sale
The cool thing is that when you’re driving a car that’s not one of those colors, it’s super easy to remember where you parked.
I used to have a Focus ZX-5 in screaming yellow Zonkers. I have never before or since been hassled by the cops so often in my life.
Not mine, but just like it.
The Subaru I drive now is bedlinered. So is my truck. The Scoob is thankfully apparently invisible to cops. I have two green motorcycles, though.
My green Outback was also invisible to cops. No one suspects the station wagon!
I’ve never seen a nissan bluebird before. That looks so good, I need it
I had one of the last ones made. A 2 litre petrol, 5-speed manual T72 from 1990. It was gorgeous to drive. Sadly the leather seats suffered from no bolstering which meant you’d slide around a bit if you were cornering quickly, but such were leather seats in the 80s/90s!
Red car club 4 life
Dodge, Audi, Porsche, Ford, Toyota, and Honda all have greens that are absolutely killer and it is a shame how uncommon they are.
Jaguar has a drop-dead gorgeous hunter green too
Like that one? I love it!
“British Racing Green!” Yeah! Absolutely love it.
Yeah, green cars are tied to British racing like red cars are to Italian. I think that’s part of the reason foreign manufacturers stayed away from dark greens that Jag is so good at
As a former auto body shop owner, green is more expensive and harder to match color wise. It always sits between a yellow or a blue base as far as mixing the actual paints from a paint system.
It is not too hard to get blue or yellow bases painfully close to their respective counterpart, but never get it right enough to use in practice. Green ages kinda funny too.
I’ve worked with 3 mixing systems. There are always lots of very specific blue’s to work with. There are not a lot of yellows, but most base black is just a super dark yellow and several metallic silvers lean into the yellow side already. There are not very many greens to tint with in a mixing system. The only color that is worse than green is orange.
Why does it matter. If the factory is not painting everything at once, they have to color match across very large batches or the fenders, bumpers, mirrors, door handles, etc. won’t match close enough… Now look at the image and you will see why many elements are black trim colored.
It also means, if you ever need to repair a green car, it will cost a lot more. The painter will have to work across a much larger area to blend the color match. Basically, add an extra large panel on all sides of the repair to achieve the same quality as something like a white car.
Every color has its quirks, but I stay away from green and orange.
You would have loved my metallic orange Honda Fit then.
Not that it matters, but actually metallics don’t mix with reds. The hard part about orange is getting red to weaken into more of a yellow while retaining vibrance. When you start adding whites, the color goes tan. Typically reds act more like dyes too. I think that is why they don’t mix with the texture of metallics the coarseness of the metallic particles causes then to sit too high in the red and this makes them show through as little dirty silver specs.
Pretty much all vibrant colors are made using pearl additives, they are much smaller in size. Some mixing systems sell them as liquids that are already with a clear binder, but I mostly used dry powders. They all look pretty close to white until they get wet with the other colors. Once wet, they really pop. Some of them need an additional layer too. Like, paint the surface a solid color, then spray a clear binder mixed with pearl, then do the 2 part urethane clear coat. That last type is the most expensive, most vibrant, and hardest to repair. IIRC that orange on the Fit was a 2-tone pearl. Scion had a few like this with a lime green and orange at one point, the bright red from the Mazda 3 was also a 2 part. All of those had no metallics in their paint, all the sparkley bits were pearls.
But yeah, that Fit would have been worse than a nightmare if I saw it roll into my shop. There is a good chance I’d have to buy the unique pearl just to mix that paint at like ~$300 for a bottle.
I say it should be illegal for cars to be sold with white, grey or black paint. I’ll make exceptions for super pearlescent white/black/silvers. Vans and work trucks can be white, Limos can be black. That’s it.
Also more purple cars please.
Why do cars only get to be one colour? Why can’t my car have space painted on it?
Grab an airbrush and have at it.
Don’t forget the wolves, wizards, and eagles while you’re at it.
Galaxy vinyl wrap ‘em
Easier to have it wrapped.
Needs to be OD green.
I love green cars. My wife drives a green Toyota Sienna and it’s a gorgeous green color. That being said, I don’t think I’ll ever but another green car. I live somewhere that gets really hot for large portions of the year and dark colored cars get really hot really fast.
I agree with you OP, but also bring back two-tone!
The last car I owned was an orange mini. I love fun car colors.
My first car was a big old GM in Sherwood Green. It was beautiful.
maybe lime green but that babyshit green is already about as common as is reasonable.
I think more cars should have multiple colours or actual art.
give me bright orange or something like that
I just bought an electric MG4 with orange paint. I should get the keys next friday, I can’t wait !
I love my orange Subaru.
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Agreed. The only reason I might not get a green car now is because I got the new CO stegosaurus plates and it would clash, but we need more green (and more color in general). It’s boring out there.
You know they must be good with all these parking spaces specifically designated for green vehicles. 😁
