When’s the last time you saw a car other than red, black, blue, gray, or white on the road?
Like, what happened to all the pinks, purples, oranges, yellows, and greens I remember from the 90s?
Cars have gotten so bland and boring, like new construction homes. Just plain, boring, and more expensive than ever.
Bring back the harlequin!
Today, because my car is green 😝
I actually hate the attention it gets, but I’m poor and it was cheap. Never seems like a good idea to me if other drivers can easily remember you. On the other hand, I can always find it in a big parking lot.
I saw a green one the other day too
Every day. But I’m living in one of the most show off cities in the US. There is no day without spotting a 200k+ car.
Wraps, plasti-dips are really really common. And actually doing a full paint job is relatively cheap alsoSame but im also in a VERY car centric city. They dont always look good here haha.
Nope h the question of “why would they pay for that?” Comes often to my mind.
I just saw a pearl white wrapped tesla. It had a very very light pink sheen to it, it was basically 99% white…Thats funny. and terrible design haha.
My theory of because of the rental fleet to used car lots flow. Rental fleets will buy newer cars, then sell them back to the dealerships so they can sell them as used cars. It’s much easier to sell generic coloured cars, than highlighter piss yellow
With how many highlighter piss yellow vehicles are still on the road I genuinely think they would sell still.
There’s an orange truck on our street but I swear half the cars on the road here are white. What the fuck is up with all those white cars?
I’m from the UK and recently was in Toronto so rented a car to get around and also to drive to Montreal. We will observed that all the cars were very limited in colours. Is it a North American thing?
In the UK, it has been getting less diverse but still a fair bit of variety
Same experience here. White cars are increasingly common as apparently they have the highest resale value. Quite boring.
They also have the highest rate of paint failure when they are parked in the sun. Paint peels right off.
I see green and orange Subarus. There’s an iridescent pink Tesla in my neighborhood. Those colors aren’t as common as the black and white ones mentioned above.
If full vinyl wraps were cheaper, you’d see iridescent pink and purple and orange cars everywhere!
Yellow is far more common than red, I see green occasionally
It’s funny, because I just made a comment about this in another thread.
There the OP was asking if people today are less ‘vibrant’ than they were a few years ago.
Not only are cars getting duller, the streets are losing vibrancy.
The best street performers of the past are now online. You used to happen upon a great comic or musician at random, playing in a park or mall.
Vibrant pigments usually rely on heavy metals. Lead was common in Red and green paints, arsenic was in greens and chromium was in blue. When they were replaced with organic pigments. They either lost their vibrancy or degraded and faded very quickly.
Also, paint is spread very thinly on cars compared to in the old days. This is partially due to higher quality steel, partially due to more plastic panels and mainly due to weight and cost reduction. This means that doing a cut-and-polish to liven up faded paintwork is liable to expose undercoat.
One economic reason I heard is that bright colors make used cars harder to sell.
It’s better to play it safe with a neutral color than risk being stuck with a bright yellow or pink car no one else thinks is pretty.
My niece just traded her burgundy Alfa Romeo Giulietta for her brand new Geely EX2.
She did want the dusty pink one (she is a 19 year old girl who works very hard and purchased her cars herself), but decided on the mint green one because it would have better resale value. They also have a tan one, but the boring grey one is the hottest seller!
Today
My partner and I drive a bright green Chevy Bolt EV (“Shock” is the official name of the color) and we love the smiles we sometimes get.
Probably at a racetrack a year or so ago, but out on the street? No idea. Even reds are getting kinda rare. It’s supremely boring.
I remember so many colors on the road. Greens. Oranges. Pinks. Navy. Teal. Yellows. All manner and shade of purple. Now it’s just. . . Bleh.
My aunt earned a Mary Kay pink Cadillac, and we were all so proud of her. I think people would crap themselves if they saw a pink car on the road nowadays.
It’s like the world doesn’t have a soul anymore.
According to KBB, green is making a comeback.
https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/what-are-the-best-car-colors-to-buy/
Once of my sisters has a… what is it called… champagne (I think) colored SUV. One of my brothers has a bright green car, like a kiwi lime color. Another brother has a 2 tone car that’s half orange half black.
I’ve got a dark blue myself, but if I could afford a paint job it would without a doubt be a nice yellow. Like a dandelion kind of shade. I absolutely looooove the color yellow.
I see a beat up old lime green Hilux around where I live with a big “The Sword” sticker on the aide window of the camper. I want to have a beer and listen to good metal with the owner.
