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Good luck finding a green car.
Even blues are more muted?
Why?
Resale. They make the colors that most people want and can resell quickly.
It is kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy, though.
I do have a charcoal truck, but my sports car is red (as they all should be).
Depends on the car (or truck)
BMW has a very nice shade of blue for 2013. They don't offer many color options this year with a Blue and Red as the most exciting color other than shades of black thru grey with a couple white options and a sand color option.
Mini on the other hand has lots of color options for their cars. Which is funny since Mini is part of BMW. You can find s very nice shade of green in the Mini line up.
Porsche offers a limited amount of color options with 4 standard colors, black, red, yellow, and white. They also have 7 metalic colors with black, Silver, Dark blue, aqua blue (which is kind of dark as well), brown, mahogany, and grey. Along with 3 special colors, Silver, cognac (Brown), and lime gold (Kind of looks like a light green metalic) Red is big as it should be.
This is funny....
For generations, people have held up Beige as the very symbol of blandness.
Recently I saw a shiny new, proudly beige car, and it stood out like a white-over-red '55 BelAir.
Despite all their excessive self-esteem, people are more obedient and conformist now than they ever were. If you ever want to give your eyeballs a treat, page through a color book of automobile paints, going through the Fifties. The apex of the decade (actually of the century) was 1955-6-7, and those colors will have you smiling for days after.
I actually have a game where I look for uninterrupted clusters of cars with the same color in traffic. I've gotten to eight so far.
Yes! Those colors in the '50s and '60s were amazing. Isn't it interesting that color movies seem to dovetail with brightly colored cars and clothing? The late '50s/early '60s had very garish colors (think Elvis wearing pink!).
Hey, now! I drive a green car. And I get a lot of compliments on it!
One aspect of this conversation that hasn't been brought up is the fact that most fleet cars bought as "company cars" for businesses and government agencies are typically white. I'm not sure if it's the "appliance effect" (believing that buying a car in white is cheaper, as white appliances tend to be) or if the purchasers just didn't want their fleet cars to be "distinctive". Similarly, rental car companies buy their cars in the most neutral colors imaginable in an effort to have their rentals appeal to (or at least not repel) as many customers as possible. So a lot of these bland cars you see on the road might not be purchased by the driver.
I think this question highlights one of the odd human traits (we are fallible creatures after all)... The trait where people strive so hard to "be different" from everyone else, but at the same time the people who generally try their hardest to be different end up being huge conformists. As for the neutral colors thing, I think it all boils down to people not wanting to drive around in something that stands out too much (even though deep inside they want to be different)... we are a complicated species!
Another school of thought is that when a color starts to become popular you will see every brand putting it on their cars.
For corporate cars it was mentioned that many companies buy white. One reason is it is easier to wrap a white car with graphics. A lot of companies don't repaint anymore but get the car wrapped with advertising. In the end the wrap comes off and they can unload a shiny white car.
My dad painted cars for a while.
I remember him saying something about there being so many white vehicles because it cost less to paint a vehicle white than any other color.
Not exactly a current event though
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Spot-on observation!
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