Noticed this. They've started charging for white... now only unpopular colours are "free"... ;)

I have never got into the silver trend, although they don't show dirt they don't seem to shine like other colours. Management has a coffee coloured car which also hides dirt well but again doesn't gleam nicely when polished (by me!). My dark blue motor does polish up well though needs doing more often to keep it looking clean, but now my cars are more for driving rather than polishing.

Some colours seem to suit certain cars, the old Ford XR2, XR3 and XR4s all seemed to look best in white, to me anyway.

There are certain colours I would not have.

Bought a new Mazda a couple of years ago and was not aware that each model has its own paint range, i.e you can't get the same shade of blue for example on both a Mazda 2 and a 3. To the casual observer, they would look the same, however, apparently the shades are carefully chosen to suit the particular model. Not sure whether this is normal for manufacturers.