Grey Car, Silver Car, Silver Car, Grey Car.

[Piemaster]

As Quesy said, once they discovered silver requires the least maintenance...plus a couple of ground breaking models are classic in arctic silver...

That does look nice in silver. But what of the 'ground breaking models' of which you speak?

 

[Dec66]

From first to last:

Two-tone yellow and black, royal blue metallic, white, black, BRG (sighs...), pale blue metallic, silver metallic.

Silver hides the grime. I wanted black, personally.

 

[RichardB]

My last car was silver, and I can't think of a more boring colour. It also used to vanish in fog, which made me very careful to use the headlights when visibility was poor, otherwise no-one would have seen me. I vowed I would never have a silver car again, so what did I replace it with? An older Merc in ... smoke silver (Rauchsilber), which fortunately is a rather nice champagne colour. The MX-5 is Innocent Blue Mica, which is lovely.

Best colour ever was a Triumph Dolomite in Emerald Green, which was a superb colour. Worst ever was another Dolomite in Russet Brown, which was precisely the colour of dog plop.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Trip down memory lane.... From oldest to newest:

Maestro White
Maestro Grey
Rover 214 Red
Rover 214 Green
Cavalier Grey
Peugeot 405 Grey
Volvo 940 Red
Espace Green
Mondeo Green
Octavia Green
Octavia Blue
Peugeot 406 Blue
Citroen c8 Dark grey
Dacia Logan Blue

Most of the greens have been that light metallic green colour, those and the greys were all chosen to show the dirt least. Other colours have gotten in because of Mrs FF's input.

 

[TVC]

Your work mate knows nothing about painting cars that is for sure.

agreed,painters hate bloody met greys..

Fair enough, what ever he knows about paint, I know even less.

 

[wheresthetorch]

I've only ever bought used cars, so the colour is just what it is. Usually dull grey or silver!

 

[Levo-Lon]

Glad to see Beige isn't popular on CC..

i had a snot green Fiat Strada..awsome piece of junk..many many faults but the wipers falling off in torentian rain was the last straw..

ive had loads of cars..wife wont have a green car after a green Montego i got her for a tempory car...rational thinking

 

[Alex H]

I was thinking of changing to one of these

But, they don't do them in yellow

 

[Rooster1]

I got TWO silver cars AND grey hair.

 

[Rooster1]

I have 11 minutes at work to list my cars and colours....typing so fast.....

Rover Metro - White
Fiat Punto - Silver
Fiat Barchetta - Black
Renault Megane - Blue
Peugeot 307 - Blue
Mazda 5 - Silver
Volvo C70 - Silver

What a boring post. Oh well, I can go home now anyways.

 

[Mrs M]

Our car is bright blue, previous ones were denim blue, sunflower yellow (my choice) red, dark red, red.
Variations of brown seem to be popular just now, a colour not seen for a while.

Oops, current car bright blue but previous was copper red, forgot the Mazda!
Mostly red cars (maybe as Mr M is an Aberdeen fan)
Yellow was my favourite until I saw it after we sold it, cannibalised and turned into a pure chav mobile

 

[Salad Dodger]

Our car is a light blue, which is not over common. But we used to have a small silver Kia, and I lost it for several minutes in the local big Tesco car park. A silver car lost in a sea of silver cars......

 

[Accy cyclist]

I looked out the window the other day and counted 7 cars on my block. Apart from my red one all were grey or silver, whatever you want to call it. The fellow across the road has had 5 VW Golfs since he's lived there, all apart from one have been silver. The other one was graphite but he got rid of it because he "didn't like the colour"!

 

[RichardB]

Just for the record, and because I have a spare minute at work:

Mini 1000, Sandglow
Triumph Dolomite, Emerald Green
Citroen 2CV6 Club, Bleu Azurite
Citroen Visa, red
Citroen Dyane, Bleu Azurite
Triumph Dolomite, Russet Brown
Renault 5GL, metallic brown
Volvo 360GL, metallic grey
Vauxhall Viva, blue/rust
Morris Ital estate, Vermilion
Renault 18GL, silver
Ford Capri 2.8i, silver
Mini Chelsea, red
VW campervan, green
Citroen BX, silver
Mitsubishi L300 van, blue
Land Rover 90, blue
(which became, over time, Tiggrr, orange V8 trialler)
Ford Transit campervan, white
Range Rover 3.9, red (ex-SAS)
Discovery II, blue
Range Rover 4.6, metallic red
Discovery 1, silver
Discovery II, metallic green
Ford Mondeo estate, silver
Mazda MX-5, metallic blue*
Mercedes 190E, smoke silver*
*current

I'm sure I have missed a couple. (And then there are the motorbikes, don't ask.)

I make that 27% blue, 27% silver, 19% red, 12% green and 15% other. No conclusions can be drawn from this data.

 

[TVC]

Just for the record, and because I have a spare minute at work:

Mini 1000, Sandglow
Triumph Dolomite, Emerald Green
Citroen 2CV6 Club, Bleu Azurite
Citroen Visa, red
Citroen Dyane, Bleu Azurite
Triumph Dolomite, Russet Brown
Renault 5GL, metallic brown
Volvo 360GL, metallic grey
Vauxhall Viva, blue/rust
Morris Ital estate, Vermilion
Renault 18GL, silver
Ford Capri 2.8i, silver
Mini Chelsea, red
VW campervan, green
Citroen BX, silver
Mitsubishi L300 van, blue
Land Rover 90, blue
(which became, over time, Tiggrr, orange V8 trialler)
Ford Transit campervan, white
Range Rover 3.9, red (ex-SAS)
Discovery II, blue
Range Rover 4.6, metallic red
Discovery 1, silver
Discovery II, metallic green
Ford Mondeo estate, silver
Mazda MX-5, metallic blue*
Mercedes 190E, smoke silver*
*current

I'm sure I have missed a couple. (And then there are the motorbikes, don't ask.)

I make that 27% blue, 27% silver, 19% red, 12% green and 15% other. No conclusions can be drawn from this data.

The only conclusion to be drawn is that you've owned a shed load of cars.