I have to say that I like silver cars and have had 3 Volvo V70s in this colour but it is just too popular too common. I was going past a car park and about 80% of the cars were silver. 4 of my 5 neighbours have silver cars (the other has a black one) and that means that I will not order a silver one next month .
I will go for either metallic red, metallic blue or metallic aqua.
Is anyone else getting fed up with silver after all these years . I think it came on the scene about 1999. I keep telling 'her indoors' that I am getting a white car next .
I dislike how most cars on the roads are silver, too. It just looks so bland when they're all together. I hear metallic black is the next big thing, though.
I have had three company cars in silver (Xantia, Primera and a 807), it is a great colour. However it has just become too popular. I pulled into services on the M40 a couple of years ago in the 807 and parked in a line of 12 silver 3 series, A4. Mondeo and Vectras!If I am lucky enough to have a company car again soon, I won't be picking silver. I like electric blue, but that is pretty popular too!
The last time there was a thread on here about car colours I predicted that autumnal colours would become popular again. However, I thought that this time they would be metallics rather than the predominantly flat paint used in the 1970s.
Since then I've noticed a fair number of cars in metallic gold, dark brown and olive green (for example BMW 3 & 5 series, Toyota Avensis, and the new Lexus).
This proves that I was right. I'm dead clever me.
Silver is ok, it looks good on just about any car but is a bit of a safe choice for my liking.
There are some cars that just have to be ordered in silver: Mercedes-Benz' 'Brilliant Silber' colour and Porsches 'Arctic Silver' to name but two. They are the generally accepted colours for resale value.
Silver also hides paintwork blemishes very well.
Olive Green seems to be going through a tiny revival at the moment. At least it's different!
Olive Green seems to be going through a tiny revival at the moment. At least it's different!
I had ordered my Berlingo Multispace (school fees , life (and car choice was different before them) in British Racing Green (well the Citroen) equivalent. For reasons beyond my ken Citroen deleted the colour and the dealer told them to go ahead with the next closest colour - 'Olive Green' it was - but he forgot to tell me . Now I am serving in the Army in Germany - Could you imagine the look on my eyes when the car . I have had to endure a great bit of teasing on this one Land Rover Metallic indeed!!!
Oh well, I am getting a no cost trade out of it for the mistake and I will opt for electric blue (metallic), aqua blue (m) or red (m). I just might go ahead with an order for a LHD model as there are far more colours available, both exterior and interior for LHD cars. The RHD cars are pretty anal retentive when it comes to colour.
When i bought my car, the place i bought it from had loads of the same car in different colours, so i chose mine for price as all the silver and black ones were £500-£1000 more expensive! I just bought the cheapest as so far I have only seen one colour i would have had over the electric blue and i didn't have the choice of that one! It was the same story with my sisters car aswell
It used to be red cars, there was a time if you parked a red vauxhall corsa in a shopping centre car park then you had to employ some serious tactics to find it amongst all the others. Now it's silver people carriers everywhere.
We have lost our way, but we're way ahead of schedule.
Black is the new silver. Most people I know who have recently changed have gone for black.
My mother has recently got rid of an old white mondeo and I thought white would never come back, but it just shows if you keep something long enough the fashion comes round again.
The new Golf GTI, Focus St, etc. look great in white. We'll see how they wear though...
I had two silver A4's and a silver Legacy and they looked great, and very easy to keep clean, it hides the daily grime well. My current car is Alfa red, very cliche I know, but nice
I have a silver Volvo 850 and a black ssangyong Rodius. I wanted a light blue rodius but my wife said it would look silly with blacked out windows so I let her talk me into a black one......forgetting she has not washed a car in the 11 years we have been together. Lovely car, nice colour, bugger to keep clean !!!
Silver car however, here in Cambridgeshire, hardly ever looks dirty !
Most cars are silve because they hide teh dirt - good for lazy reps. White, I have on good authority , is set to be the next big thing. I believe there are several manufacturers out there developing self cleaning paints that will adorn their models in teh very near future. White is seen psychologically as a colour of innocence and goodness, and likewise, cloaking your car in white, provides the owner with a sense of moral conviction that, no matter what the stats say, their 5 liter Mercedes is actually a clean and environmentally aware automobile. Many new designs are being created to suit white from the board so expect to se emany more white cars around. Black, on the other hand is harder to assimilate, as due to hues and tones, it can either make or break a car design. The last and current Range Rovers are perfect examples. If it was my choice, I would go with a light reactive mica in light blue or sandy grey.
There are a heluva lot of silver cars out there. Some really do suit silver, but even those (Audi cars etc) are starting to fade into the distance.
I admire Alfa for getting away with their traditional, and very Italian, red but I also like a lot of the pastel shades at the moment, but they work best with diddy 'character' cars like the Fiat Panda, Nissan Micra and even the Mini.
It's a shame silver is such a safe bet but I'd rather stick with the current level of silver than see a rise in people buying canary yellow cars, wich seemed to happen back in the mid 90s. Yellow is never a good look.
I love the silver colour more than every other colour...It has really become too common.As for the olive green we have just bought a new Volvo S40 Willow green pearl which is something different.It is a very good colour,it changes from silver to olive green and grey depending external conditions something that does not happen with olive oil coloured Renaults or Seats.It's a Volvo,not a mainstream car.BMW has also recently added this colour at its pallette.As you own a Volvo a good pick would be the electric silver metallic.It is a marvellous silver as it changes colours as the environment,it is not usual(different than simple silver metallic) and is a premium paint that costs more than the other metallic or pearl colours(1000 Euro than 700 Euro for the other metallic paints here).A similar but worse colour is offered by Toyota.If you like Alfas then opt for the red.It 's marvellous indeed.
After doing reverse maneovers (sp) in the rain for my driving test, I now know that black and grey cars do not stand out enough to always be safe.
White can look really tatty if it's dirty or old, but at least it isn't potentially dangerous?
I read once that green cars are crashed into most often. one theory being that as the colour of trees, grass, hedgerows and other such things we take for granted, we learn to not process them.
Whether this is entirely correct I don't know, but it's a n interesting idea!
After doing reverse maneovers (sp) in the rain for my driving test, I now know that black and grey cars do not stand out enough to always be safe.
White can look really tatty if it's dirty or old, but at least it isn't potentially dangerous?
I read once that green cars are crashed into most often. one theory being that as the colour of trees, grass, hedgerows and other such things we take for granted, we learn to not process them.
Whether this is entirely correct I don't know, but it's a n interesting idea!
Some years ago there was some research on this and yellow was considered to be the safest colour (if you dare to drive one). Y ou might think white is good, but don't forget snow. Also, there are light conditions that make white difficult to see. Silver is an even more difficult colour to see in certain low-light conditions. The worst colour ever was BT's NATO low-vis grey of a few years ago. Their unlit Transits (which they always were!) on Welsh mountain roads in gale-force fog were impossible to see!
My car is metallic blue, so it becomes invisible underwater.
Well we're safe for now. Thank goodness we're in a bowling alley.
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. I think it came on the scene about 1999. I keep telling 'her indoors' that I am getting a white car next 
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, life (and car choice was different before them) in British Racing Green (well the Citroen) equivalent. For reasons beyond my ken Citroen deleted the colour and the dealer told them to go ahead with the next closest colour - 'Olive Green' it was - but he forgot to tell me 
. Now I am serving in the Army in Germany - Could you imagine the look on my eyes when the car 
Land Rover Metallic indeed!!!
and I will opt for electric blue (metallic), aqua blue (m) or red (m). I just might go ahead with an order for a LHD model as there are far more colours available, both exterior and interior for LHD cars. The RHD cars are pretty anal retentive when it comes to colour.
