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www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-12234525/Fi...e
Is. This serious.
Edited by _ORB_ on 26/06/2023 at 16:01
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It may not be a wise move, but i like the thinking behind it. Grey (and silver) is such a boring colour!.
Might be the most common colour in the UK, but is it a common Fiat colour?. I see a lot of 500's, but mostly they are in a more interesting colour.
Edited by badbusdriver on 26/06/2023 at 17:21
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Don't blame them. What does that say about the UK that it is the most popular colour.
There is a particular hue of grey (VAG I think) that makes the cars almost invisible against the road surface on a dark, overcast day, when the driver has decided to leave the lights off, which is becoming more common.
Edited by corax on 26/06/2023 at 17:45
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Out of curiosity I just had a look at the colours of the cars for sale on Autotrader. Out of just under 443k in total, black is actually the most common at just under 95k. Grey is next though with just over 82k, followed by white at just under 75k, blue at 67k, silver at 50k and red at 44k. Of course silver is also often called grey and vice versa (in metallic naturally, not those awful 'primer' grey's so popular at the moment), so added together they comfortably exceed black.
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Out of curiosity I just had a look at the colours of the cars for sale on Autotrader. Out of just under 443k in total, black is actually the most common at just under 95k. Grey is next though with just over 82k, followed by white at just under 75k, blue at 67k, silver at 50k and red at 44k. Of course silver is also often called grey and vice versa (in metallic naturally, not those awful 'primer' grey's so popular at the moment), so added together they comfortably exceed black.
I looked up Europes most popular car colours, and for the swedes it's orange!
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Out of curiosity I just had a look at the colours of the cars for sale on Autotrader. Out of just under 443k in total, black is actually the most common at just under 95k. Grey is next though with just over 82k, followed by white at just under 75k, blue at 67k, silver at 50k and red at 44k. Of course silver is also often called grey and vice versa (in metallic naturally, not those awful 'primer' grey's so popular at the moment), so added together they comfortably exceed black.
I looked up Europes most popular car colours, and for the swedes it's orange!
Isn't that (very sensibly) for safety reasons though?. Make the cars more visible in darker conditions and also less likely to become "invisible" when coated with a layer of road dirt.
Only about a hundredth of the total cars on Autotrader are orange :-(
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Don't blame them. What does that say about the UK that it is the most popular colour.
There is a particular hue of grey (VAG I think) that makes the cars almost invisible against the road surface on a dark, overcast day, when the driver has decided to leave the lights off, which is becoming more common.
I believe that's 'urano' grey. It was the no cost option a few years so is the standard on PCPs.
The fashion for leaving the lights off is because they're now 'automatic'. On VAG cars, there's no way of knowing whether they've actually come on without looking at the switch somewhere near your right knee.
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Don't. I'm already upset with FIAT and paint colours. 500e..paint code 111....except FIAT in their infinite wisdom assigned two different red colours to the SAME paint code. Pasodoble Red and Rosso red. And it's not the same red.
Two stone chips currently got Nissan Quashqai red on them...which is the wrong red but was closer than Pasodoble Red.
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www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/article-12234525/Fi...e
Is. This serious.
Up to them I suppose. In my view, colours seem to suit some cars more than others. Sometimes grey can look quite sytling on one car and utterly hideous on another.
In some ways, I can understand them pushing towards 'bright colours' again - we need a bit oif cheering up in the current hard times, but i think that outright dropping grey for all their cars is perhaps going a bit far.
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Not really any different to a manufactuerer that only seems to have dull colours for all their cars and no bright/vivid options...just Fiat are making it a 'thing'.
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Not really any different to a manufactuerer that only seems to have dull colours for all their cars and no bright/vivid options...just Fiat are making it a 'thing'.
I reckon most continentals see cars differently from Brits. Most cars in France are in pretty dull colours, and I don't think there are nearly as many soft-tops as here. Perhaps Focussed can confirm ?
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Before looking it up I would have said that white is popular here.
From an assurance company's database for France.
28% white cars
26% gray vehicles
20% black cars
Note that French law states that all manufacturers must offer a colour that is not an invoiced extra on the bill - usually a non metallic.
And that insurance company's charge more for bright coloured cars - more accidents!
Check out the other European countries colour choices.
www.assurland.com/assurance-auto/actualites/voitur...l
Edited by focussed on 28/06/2023 at 11:32
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From an assurance company's database for France.
28% white cars ; 26% gray vehicles ; 20% black cars
That's interesting. It leaves 26% for all the other non-monochrome colours : red (plenty in UK), blue, brown, green, etc ....
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On my daily commute (the 3 days I go to the office) I usually pass going in the other direction a shocking pink Fiat 500 .... one of my work colleagues drives an aubergine coloured Fiat 500 ... both are distinctive colours, me, my present and previous cars are both silver in colour, in the past I have had green, black and red cars but I would not want a pink or aubergine car (unless a short term hire)
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I like that. I can't believe anyone sets out to buy a grey Fiat 500 anyway.
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‘Back in the day’ Fiat used to offer the 126 in a not very fetching shade of dark brown. Imagination had escaped them when it came to naming the thing and it was called the 126 ‘Brown’
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‘Back in the day’ Fiat used to offer the 126 in a not very fetching shade of dark brown. Imagination had escaped them when it came to naming the thing and it was called the 126 ‘Brown’
Indeed - I remember when I was at primary school back in the late 70s / early 80s, and two members of staff each had the boxy little Fiats, one in beige, the other chocolate brown.
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