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For me it would be a deal killer. I'm a bit flexible for a pre-owned vehicle, but driving a car I couldn't stand to look at would be a big problem. Some vehicles look beautiful painted in colors that would make other vehicles look horrible.
Normally try to buy the color of dirt: silver, gold, light brown. However , when buying used, you don't have much choice. Mileage, overall condition are more important. Last car was deep read. I beautiful color but hard to keep clean.
Color is a deal breaker for sure. I had to wait about two months to get my brown car but couldn't stand the boring black, silver, white and gray cliches they had in stock. Had the brown not been available I would have moved on to another manufacturer. Initially I wanted a bronze colored car by a different maker but the dealer wanted 1200 dollars to ship it over 2K miles from CA, supposedly the only one like it available, absurd, why even advertise its availability...
I would never own red, purple, orange, gold, pink or yellow but could probably tolerate anything else in certain shades on certain models in coordination with certain interior colors. No white interiors though.
If you have your mind and heart set on a particular car model and one comes along for sale with the right miles, engine, price, trim, etc., but it's a color you don't like or that's not popular, would that be a deal breaker for you? Is attraction to car color something can be changed or overcome? To be specific, sea green or sky blue on a full size car.
My neighbor drives a mid-sized sedan. I am not sure what model off the top of my head at the moment but its color is close to sky blue. The color itself is good in my opinion but it does not look quite right on this particular vehicle. I mean, the color would look awesome on say a VW Beetle but not on this car.
So yeah, certain colors only seem to fit certain cars. But no, it would not be a deal breaker for me. I'd just have the thing painted a more suitable color if I really wanted that one particular car. Otherwise I would just be patient; sooner or later the car I truly want will come along.
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