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A lot of it has to do with dealerships. Its easy to underestimate how big of an impact dealers have on car buying/options. Relatively few people order their vehicles spec'd from the factory anymore. Most people just go to dealers, test drive, and buy one off the lot.
The goal of a dealership is to SELL CARS. Most people do not have strong feelings about white/grey/black cars. They are OK, hence more likely to sell. You might love a blaze orange car, but chances are a lot of people are going to hate it. Dealers don't want cars that are going to sit on the lot for months on end until the right buyer comes along because they have unpopular options. Having neutral colors makes them appeal to the widest possible audience.
I had a devil of time finding a RAM 1500 in Flame Red. All of the dealers around me had dozens of black, white and silver trucks and there were a small handful of Dark Cherry Red scattered across Texas, but only two Flame Reds within 500 miles of me. It is in my driveway now, so dont bother if you also like red.
In Hawaii, black seems to be the most popular color. That makes no sense considering how hot it is most of the time. When I was looking for used cars that was really annoying.
A lot of it has to do with dealerships. Its easy to underestimate how big of an impact dealers have on car buying/options. Relatively few people order their vehicles spec'd from the factory anymore. Most people just go to dealers, test drive, and buy one off the lot.
The goal of a dealership is to SELL CARS. Most people do not have strong feelings about white/grey/black cars. They are OK, hence more likely to sell. You might love a blaze orange car, but chances are a lot of people are going to hate it. Dealers don't want cars that are going to sit on the lot for months on end until the right buyer comes along because they have unpopular options. Having neutral colors makes them appeal to the widest possible audience.
I wonder how the dealers of the 50s dealt with color preferences. So many of those cars had beautiful colors - aqua, yellow, etc. and they probably didn't appeal to everyone. But they sold.
I wonder how the dealers of the 50s dealt with color preferences. So many of those cars had beautiful colors - aqua, yellow, etc. and they probably didn't appeal to everyone. But they sold.
More cars ordered from the factory, a greater percentage of cars owned by upper-income drivers (much harder to get financing in those days), cars were not so much "appliances" as personal statements.
Plus, there appears to be more fancy colors from this end of time because the plain ones weren't preserved.
Just started noticing, nearly every car on the road is now either white or silver. Why?
Baffles me too.
If I were to pick the two normal (within reason) colors cars typically come in, white and silver would probalby be my last two picks. Actually, throw beige in it's millions of varieties and tones in there too. I'd probably rather have silver than white or beige if forced to pick one of those three. Kind of a nightmare scenario for me :-)
To me, these colors are "yawners". If you want to look like exactly like everyone else with your boring 4 door sedan......you'll definately want to go with either a white, silver or tan car :-)
It's like house siding colors. Everytime I see a new home being sided and it's a light "beige" tone, I think, why on earth would you spend $300,000 (or more) dollars and side it in boring bland beige vinyl.....but to each their own.
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A lot of it has to do with dealerships. Its easy to underestimate how big of an impact dealers have on car buying/options. Relatively few people order their vehicles spec'd from the factory anymore. Most people just go to dealers, test drive, and buy one off the lot.
The goal of a dealership is to SELL CARS. Most people do not have strong feelings about white/grey/black cars. They are OK, hence more likely to sell. You might love a blaze orange car, but chances are a lot of people are going to hate it. Dealers don't want cars that are going to sit on the lot for months on end until the right buyer comes along because they have unpopular options. Having neutral colors makes them appeal to the widest possible audience.
This, and/or the desire to blend or fit in, and have the same thing everyone else has. I prefer medium and dark blues myself, which is a bit difficult to find. You can't get a blue interior anymore, sometimes a tan interior, mostly gray or black. In my opinion, green was always the ugliest color on any car. Thank God you don't see it much any more.
This, and/or the desire to blend or fit in, and have the same thing everyone else has. I prefer medium and dark blues myself, which is a bit difficult to find. You can't get a blue interior anymore, sometimes a tan interior, mostly gray or black. In my opinion, green was always the ugliest color on any car. Thank God you don't see it much any more.
I had a yellow car... It sucks. People always know where you are and always make comments. Occasionally it's a cool conversation piece
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