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ALL cars colours - Best colour car to hide road dust / rain marks - trebor1
I was wondering what others felt about car colours and how they show road film/water marks and are less attractive to birds pooping on them!

My thoughts having had most colours is this

Silver - very good for both
Mettalic dark grey , bad for road film good for birds avoiding
White - good for both
Black - terrible for both
Dark colours - terrible for both

Not saying Im right of course but worthy of a discussion maybe?


ALL cars colours - Best colour car to hide road dust / rain marks - Avant

As you say, except that white is no good where we live in rural Dorset in a village surrounded by dairy farms. Mud.

But white is much better then dark colours for not showing a layer of urban grime. We currently have one in bright blue and one in pillarbox red - somewhere on the middle for showng the dirt, but at least not boring to look at.

ALL cars colours - Best colour car to hide road dust / rain marks - paul 1963

Silver is good at hiding dirt, personally hate it though, so boring, white is good apart from during the pollen season when they quickly go yellow.

I currently have a blue car and it may just be my rather weird imagination but it seems to invite every passing bird to relieve it's self over it, normally the tail gate strangely !!????

ALL cars colours - Best colour car to hide road dust / rain marks - bathtub tom

I had an olive green car that rarely showed the dirt, until the Winter when salt would dry on it as a whitish colour - looked terrible.

ALL cars colours - Best colour car to hide road dust / rain marks - gordonbennet

Silver might be boring to some people, but i've yet to find a colour that disguises the various types of dirt better.

ALL cars colours - Best colour car to hide road dust / rain marks - trebor1

Silver might be boring to some people, but i've yet to find a colour that disguises the various types of dirt better.

I agree

Silver is great for hiding light road film in winter months, after 6 years i fancied a change though... How do the modern metallic oranges, mink , champagne type colours fare? My wifes black car attracts birds mess normally within hours of washing it, bizarre as my silver car virtually never seems to get any.
ALL cars colours - Best colour car to hide road dust / rain marks - focussed

We've got a black one and a silver one - the less said about the black one the better, it always looks filthy, even the day after it has been washed, dust, pollen, bird carp.

The metallic silver one gets dirty but doesn't look so obviously dirty and unloved.

And, it is a darned sight cooler if it has been standing in the sun than the black one which gets like a bread oven. We have to open all the doors for a few minutes to let it cool down before getting in.

ALL cars colours - Best colour car to hide road dust / rain marks - Ethan Edwards

I used to own a Princess in Cashmir Metallic. Sort of fawn brown. That was imo very good as not showing dirt. But then it was Brown...

ALL cars colours - Best colour car to hide road dust / rain marks - John F

Depends where you live and drive. City dirt is black, so silver best. Country dirt is brown, so gold best.

ALL cars colours - Best colour car to hide road dust / rain marks - nick62

I used to own a Princess in Cashmir Metallic. Sort of fawn brown. That was imo very good as not showing dirt. But then it was Brown...

BL exterior and interior colours were terrible in the 1970's, it must have been the same bloke choosing them who thought a square steering wheel in the Allegro was a good idea?

But then again they also designed the Marina with the radio facing the passenger....

Edited by nick62 on 21/04/2019 at 12:15

ALL cars colours - Best colour car to hide road dust / rain marks - badbusdriver

I think something like this would be best, then you can just ignore the road dust, grime etc.

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ALL cars colours - Best colour car to hide road dust / rain marks - Ethan Edwards

In all fairness had they spent a bit more time and engineering development on the Princess made it a hatchback, then it could have been a winner. Once you fixed the rust issues. I enjoyed my 2litre hl2 auto. Good car.