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There are no pros and cons, you like what you like.
White hides body imperfections better than any other, on a sunny day a polished white car is almost impossible to assess body condition, large white cars can look a bit naff.
Quite agree about the dreadful road-surface grey so popular currently, brand new cars in that colour look ten years old already, what happens to people in a glass palace showroom?
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I presume the skidpans are either very old, or car dealers...?
26 over a total ownership period of 77 years, about 3 years each. Pretty average I would have thought. In the early days they were old and kept less than a year but once things improved financially they have been new(ish) and we have tried to keep them a max of 5 years.
The 2 Caterhams are not included in the above. For the record both have been polished alloy with green plastic bits (says green/silver on the V5). First was owned for 4 years, the current one 30 years this month.
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Quite agree about the dreadful road-surface grey so popular currently, brand new cars in that colour look ten years old already, what happens to people in a glass palace showroom?
The coffee is laced with a mind altering drug that renders them open to suggestion. It was introduced a few years ago to make the salesmans job easier. If that doesn't work, there is usually a hypnotists couch in small, soundproofed room in the back of the building.
"You will choose grey, and like it"
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There are no pros and cons, you like what you like.
White hides body imperfections better than any other, on a sunny day a polished white car is almost impossible to assess body condition, large white cars can look a bit naff.
Quite agree about the dreadful road-surface grey so popular currently, brand new cars in that colour look ten years old already, what happens to people in a glass palace showroom?
Like with furniture, it's always a very good idea to see car colours in natural daylight rather than under artificial light or going solely by what you see in an advert / glossy borchure.
The latest Mazda3 fastback looked amazing in the latter in 'machine grey metallic', not so good on the street in that colour. When I was last looking for a new car back in ealry 2017, white was THE colour - nearly all the cars in my local dealership's showroom were that colour. Now grey is the 'in' colour, though I think that reds are becoming more fashionable again.
I used to love the (almost) British Racing Green of my old Micra - it worked well on that car, but would've looked hideous on my Mazda3. Seems to be best suited to small cars (Minis, old and new, look nice in it) and 'British' (looking) convertables and coupes. Proverbial horses for courses.
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Just had a tot up of mine and the Mrs' cars.
26 in total
9 White
8 Silver
4 Grey
3 Red
2 Blue
Guess what, we like white. Wifes current Fabia is white with a black roof, mirrors and wheels with dark tint rear windows, looks great.
All red cars were bought because they seemed the best buy at the time and not because we wanted red. Average time owned was just 2 years 4 months. Came to hate them all. Even if a red one came along in the future at a great price we would turn it down.
But in truth Silver is without doubt our favourite colour. All the Silver cars were bought because we wanted them in that colour, never regretted one. My current Superb is Silver.
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Just had an easier tot up of mine and Mrs F's cars since 1980 - just 9 in total
2 Gold {Fiesta and Audi 100)
2 Silver (Audis A6 and A8)
2 Blue (Passat GL5 (light) and 2.0GL (dark) estates
2 Green (Focus and TR7)
1 Grey {Peugeot 2008)
But my impractical XK120 sold to part pay for the TR7 (yes.....I know :-( was white.
Between myself from 1989, and my wife from when we met in 1999, we've had the following colours:
Red - 7
Blue - 8
Black - 3
Yellow - 3
White - 3
Grey/silver- 2
Green - 1
Orange - 1
gold - 1
( I presume the skidpans are either very old, or car dealers...?)
I'm 51, my wife is 49, and we are not motor traders either ;-)
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Obviously colour preference is a very personal thing, with a strong influence of current fashions. But in defence of grey (and silver), these achromatic or monochromatic "colours" are excellent for highlighting the body features. This works best with pearlescent or multi-layer metallics. They are particularly good in strong light, whether natural or artificial, and became popular with designers when manufacturing processes were of a quality to consistently produce sharp creases and lines. A renowned designer once explained that the cars he designed should never be in solid colours (and yet rosso remains the most popular) but in a dark grey or, preferably, dark blue and ideally a multi-layer metallic. I confess that conversation, obviously many years ago, changed the way I look at cars. But to each their own...
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My current car is metallic grey, magnetic, to be precise, I’ve had red, blue, and white cars, but I’m fed up of these colours , when choosing this car I really liked it blue, but in the metal it was too “ in your face” and I think I would quickly tire of it, another colour I liked was a very pale grey, but again it just looked like it was in primer ready for its top coat, I have ordered a new car ( different make) and again we’ve gone for grey, I toyed with silver as we’ve never had one, but, side by side the grey looked better, each to their own of course, and colours are subjective, incidentally, I’m not sure that a white car is any cooler when sat in the sun, bit of an urban myth methinks, after all, there’s lots of glass in a car, so it’s essentially a mobile greenhouse…
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I've had cars of many colours. One metallic grey and one white at the moment. White definitely suits small cars more than big ones. It always looks a bit cheap because white was normally the no-cost option years ago. However, I like it on our Twingo
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I've only had greys and blues. As long as the colour isn't too loud (yellow for example) then I'm not really bothered what it is. Not keen on black although if the price and spec was good then I probably would go for it.
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I actually like the primer grey a few cars seem to be available in, b***** hate any sort of silver on cars, never looks clean.
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I actually like the primer grey a few cars seem to be available in, b***** hate any sort of silver on cars, never looks clean.
Weird. My car's silver and I think it mostly looks clean, hence not needing to wash it very often! :-)
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incidentally, I’m not sure that a white car is any cooler when sat in the sun, bit of an urban myth methinks, after all, there’s lots of glass in a car, so it’s essentially a mobile greenhouse…
My experience of many years shifting cars, in a line of 11 similar if not identical cars sitting in the blazing sun in a compound, the white one will be appreciably cooler than anything else, shiny silver not far behind, black cars by far the worst.
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<< ... in a line of 11 similar if not identical cars sitting in the blazing sun in a compound, the white one will be appreciably cooler than anything else, shiny silver not far behind, black cars by far the worst. >>
If it were any different, the laws of physics would not apply. Black absorbs heat best, white or silver reflects heat. A lot can be done with insulation, but black or other dark colours will always win. The same rule applies with radiating heat - you may have noticed that chrome-plated towel rails do little to warm a room.
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"The same rule applies with radiating heat - you may have noticed that chrome-plated towel rails do little to warm a room."
Even with my limited understanding of physics I know that a "radiator" - in this case, a towel rail - relies on convection, not radiation, to warm a room. The finish is largely (but maybe not completely?) irrelevant.
The chrome-plated towel rails in this house do pretty well. They get hot, the air circulates and the bathrooms get nice and warm.
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The chrome-plated towel rails in this house do pretty well. They get hot, the air circulates and the bathrooms get nice and warm.
Perhaps you should try painting the rails matt black .... :-)
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Was that gold one bought with a lotto win, BBD? I've seen someone in a gold Bentley my way (well, Stevenage [no, it wasn't Lewis Hamilton]) a few years ago... :-)
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On the subject of colours, I feel pedestrians should wear white (or light colours) jackets in the winter so that drivers can spot them easily.
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On the subject of colours, I feel pedestrians should wear white (or light colours) jackets in the winter so that drivers can spot them easily.
Amen to that
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On the subject of colours, I feel pedestrians should wear white (or light colours) jackets in the winter so that drivers can spot them easily.
Amen to that
Some lunatic on the M5 this evening was standing on the hard shoulder, under a bridge, on the driver's side of his car, wearing all dark clothing. I only saw him because he briefly walked in front of a tail light and the red light vanished.
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On the subject of colours, I feel pedestrians should wear white (or light colours) jackets in the winter so that drivers can spot them easily.
But, not, presumably, in the snow.
Only 40 'mercan, and currently trendy
www.ebay.com/itm/254790071909
Edited by edlithgow on 10/02/2023 at 02:15
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On the subject of colours, I feel pedestrians should wear white (or light colours) jackets in the winter so that drivers can spot them easily.
But, not, presumably, in the snow.
Only 40 'mercan, and currently trendy
www.ebay.com/itm/254790071909
Where's Wally had the best idea - easily seen in the dark but apparently not in a crowd! :-)
Other than the postman, few people wear red jackets. Presumably because they don't want to end up like Little Red Riding Hood?
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( I presume the skidpans are either very old, or car dealers...?)
I'm 51, my wife is 49, and we are not motor traders either ;-)
You still have plenty of time to leverage all that experience into bizniz opportunity. Could be a nice little earner.
(Ah Youth! So wasted on The Young)
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Cleaned the white Fabia today, first time since October. Looked OK before, looks mint now.
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