rocketraider Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 https://www.autoblog.com/article/most-least-popular-car-colors/ I've accepted that I will never understand the obsession with white, silver and gray vehicles. Boring enough on their own. Add a gray or charcoal monotone interior and it's a recipe for severe depression. 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintage1 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Agree, especially on the interior ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30DodgePanel Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Are we talking new or antiques? Wife has a 2019 black interior and my 2018 truck is granite, and we both love them. Some in our family say we are the life of our parties, now I'm starting to wonder. I wasn't self-conscience about these things before today, thanks lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmTee Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 My wife's Charcoal Chevy Equinox is one of three on our street!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 (edited) My F150 is old man red with silver. I would’ve never thought I’d own such a thing, but it was low miles and a deal. I’d been looking for six months before I stumbled onto this one. My 82-year-old mom‘s new caddy is the same color. The difference is she ordered hers that way, I just accepted mine as part of the deal. The truck before that with black on black, and the one before that was gray on gray. Edited February 22, 2022 by alsancle (see edit history) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketraider Posted February 22, 2022 Author Share Posted February 22, 2022 10 minutes ago, 30DodgePanel said: Are we talking new or antiques? Wife has a 2019 black interior and my 2018 truck is granite, and we both love them. Some in our family say we are the life of our parties, now I'm starting to wonder. I wasn't self-conscience about these things before today, thanks lol Cars before the Nineties could often get away with white, silver or gray because they could have colorful interiors and enough brightwork to break up the expanses of non-colors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmhowe Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 When I was a young man, I decided that -when rich, and buying my Rolls- Royce - I would have it painted to match the dirt in my driveway. I'm old now, relatively speaking, and I never got the Rolls. However, I still like the concept. A dirt colored Rolls? OK. A dirt colored Yugo? it is just not going to hack it. PMH 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30DodgePanel Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 55 minutes ago, rocketraider said: Cars before the Nineties could often get away with white, silver or gray because they could have colorful interiors and enough brightwork to break up the expanses of non-colors. Really? Which ones, I don't recall any that I'd own during that time period. There are some current blacks and grays, charcoals I'd never own depending on accent colors and type of material used. I understand what you're saying though, way too many white, silver and light charcoal monotones out there. I agree. Why anyone would own a new gunmetal gray is beyond me. They should be plugged with elephant guns imho. I'm color blind so there's that and I'm sure I'm biased since I drove all 1963 to 1972 work trucks during the time frame from mid 1970s up until recently, so I had no desire to purchase anything different during that period (other than antiques or classics). Everything the wife drove in that time frame (from 1980 to 2014) was complete garbage with horrendous blue and gray interiors, might as well have been mauve it was so sickening lol. That new soft black interior she has in her current car is holding up very nicely (SofTex) and the best car she's ever owned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30DodgePanel Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Gross Granite I can deal with Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Schramm Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 I plan on ordering a new truck in the not too distant future and it will not be black, red, white, or silver. My current truck that I have had for over 10 years is a brown with a touch of gray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Kingsley Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 (edited) Our family daily driver is dark metallic red and my brother's car is light metallic blue. The last red car we had was a Chrysler Cordoba...blue has been the predominant family car color. I can remember 5 blue, 2 red, 1 white and 1 metallic orange. Have pictures of 1 green but don't have any memories of it. Most of our cars didn't last that long... considering I've only been alive since 1984. Edited February 22, 2022 by Billy Kingsley (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 10 hours ago, pmhowe said: When I was a young man, I decided that -when rich, and buying my Rolls- Royce - I would have it painted to match the dirt in my driveway. I'm old now, relatively speaking, and I never got the Rolls. However, I still like the concept. A dirt colored Rolls? OK. A dirt colored Yugo? it is just not going to hack it. PMH A car that holds the record for hiding dirt that gets my vote is a Chevette that was called 'Sandpiper'. It was available in a soiled, dirty yellow color with an interior that matched the exterior in the same 'dirty yellow' color. (Perfect car for a single mom with kids that wet their diapers a lot.) White, black, gray, and silver cars look spotless next to a Chevette with that trim. https://barnfinds.com/sandpiper-special-1977-chevrolet-chevette/ Craig 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alsancle Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 10 hours ago, 30DodgePanel said: Gross Granite I can deal with I'm ok with either of those colors. I assume the lighter color gray is flat but the darker is metallic? There seems to be a push away from metallic these days. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_S_in_Penna Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 To my thoughts, the current dull palette of colors is the worst, and most limited, in the past 85 years. Since the designers aren't physically color-blind, the monotonous monotones must be the result of their limited and darkened thought. 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkhammer Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 When there were still cars and trucks on dealer lots over the past few years, my wife would always comment when riding by how ugly they were. White, silver, gray and black or some shade of those. No real "color" on the entire lot. I suppose that's what buyers want these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John348 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 (edited) A majority of the new cars are leased the national average is 60% that was given in another thread. Easy colors to touch up, hide chips and scratches very well, put back it out right on the used car lot. I never leased but my sons do. They said when the lease is up the options become very limited Edited February 22, 2022 by John348 (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexRiv_63 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 I totally agree about the lack of colors but - my SUV daily is white for practical reasons. (Texas summer) We did get red leather seats for a little bit of color. There is always a sea of white SUV's in any parking lot and my wife has a hard time picking ours out. She looks for the wheels which are a fairly unique grey-blue metallic. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Luddy Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 I've ranted to many of my friends about the real lack of color available for the last decade. Seems that it matters little to most people. But my friends in the used car business pay a good premium for brighter shades of orange, red, burgundy, green and yellow. They stand out and sell better I'm told, and bring more money that the sea of black, white and gray tones on most lots. The only new car purchase I've made in the last 25 years was a GoManGo metallic orange Dodge Charger Daytona in Oct. 2005. Now I seem to have nothing but blah gray and black. I sold it 6 years ago. This is a Dodge brochure picture until I can go thru my files, but exact color scheme. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
58L-Y8 Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Walking in a parking lot, I came across this exciting new color...but it also seemed so familiar... 1 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John348 Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 I see the name now, Square D Electric Gray 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank DuVal Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 13 hours ago, alsancle said: I assume the lighter color gray is flat No! Gray without metallic looks like a Navy Ship, even in the lighter shades. Designed to blend in with fog/mist on the ocean. Very few grays have been non-metallic since the early 60s. Recent Audis are an exception. BTW, flat means no gloss, not non-metallic. You can have a flat metallic paint. Quite the rage in the hot rod crowd nowadays from those TV shows of building c&^%, I mean "fancy" vehicles.😆 Or building Navy Ships....😉 Square D gray, Navy Gray, close match. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 9 hours ago, Frank DuVal said: Square D gray, Navy Gray, close match. How about referring it by its proper "name", Federal Standard 595, #16187 http://www.colorserver.net/showcolor.asp?fs=16187 (Besides you being a number, not an individual by name with the Feds, its the same with paint colors.) A Studebaker truck originally painted FS16187 https://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/forum/your-studebaker-forum/general-studebaker-specific-discussion/89938-studebaker-navy-trucks/page2?87811-Studebaker-NAVY-Trucks= Craig 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexRiv_63 Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 14 hours ago, Frank DuVal said: No! Gray without metallic looks like a Navy Ship, even in the lighter shades. Designed to blend in with fog/mist on the ocean. Very few grays have been non-metallic since the early 60s. Recent Audis are an exception. BTW, flat means no gloss, not non-metallic. You can have a flat metallic paint. Quite the rage in the hot rod crowd nowadays from those TV shows of building c&^%, I mean "fancy" vehicles.😆 Or building Navy Ships....😉 Square D gray, Navy Gray, close match. Dodge has this type of color, they call it Battleship Gray. I absolutely hate it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter J.Heizmann Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 5 hours ago, 8E45E said: How about referring it by its proper "name", Federal Standard 595, #16187 http://www.colorserver.net/showcolor.asp?fs=16187 (Besides you being a number, not an individual by name with the Feds, its the same with paint colors.) A Studebaker truck originally painted FS16187 https://forum.studebakerdriversclub.com/forum/your-studebaker-forum/general-studebaker-specific-discussion/89938-studebaker-navy-trucks/page2?87811-Studebaker-NAVY-Trucks= Craig If you ever have to write down all the Federal Standard numbers and need a pencil the correct Army title is 12 each Portable Handheld Transcribing Device. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 14 minutes ago, Peter J.Heizmann said: If you ever have to write down all the Federal Standard numbers and need a pencil the correct Army title is 12 each Portable Handheld Transcribing Device. At $595 each! Craig 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 In 2013, GM showed this Chevrolet concept vehicle at annual new-car shows. Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pfeil Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 A great many cars and trucks here in Arizona are white. There is a reason Also, Pewter, silver, metallic gray from afar blends into the HWY especially at distance. 😉 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John348 Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 50 Shades of Grey 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenie Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 My wife’s Honda CR-V is a dark metallic green that looks black at night under parking lot lights- just like my ‘69 Firebird which is dark green poly ( fathom green to a Camaro). Trouble is, lots of other folks like that color too. My wife has actually hopped into the wrong car, which had an occupant. Fortunately it was a nice lady who understood the situation. Talk about embarrassment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Mack_CT Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 Metallic black right outta 1978! 😁 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 6 minutes ago, Steve_Mack_CT said: Metallic black right outta 1978! 😁 That brings back memories! The Dodge Warlock had the first metallic black I ever saw! Craig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Luddy Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 The Bland Played On! 2 of my current vehicles. The 70 Chevy is painted back to it's original Shadow Grey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_S_in_Penna Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 There's certainly nothing wrong with those as paint colors--white, black, light gray, light medium gray, medium gray, dark gray, dark dark gray... But there needs to be much more choice, so people can express their own tastes and preferences. Interiors, too, currently need a lot of help. Imagine your wife decorating the living room and going to the furniture store. "Mrs. Smith, that sofa you like comes only in solid tan or solid gray. That's all we have to offer!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 The car manufacturers are dictating what you are able to buy, guess they have computer analysis of what they feel people will most likely enjoy/prefer and thus can paint many the same color and just ship them to dealers when an order is placed. "your" choice is chosen for you. But people do have a tendency to go with what they feel is popular , thus the repetition, even with restorations - in the 1970s many many cars were painted tan and brown or silver and maroon. I saw this happen even to a fellow in a local club region who was an art teacher, his huge 1930s sedan got painted silver and maroon because that was what was popular at the time, what was in vogue. People want to be different from the herd but those that do , mostly flock with the crowd - it is the need to be accepted , be part of it. Be it a color for a car, what event to attend to pose at etc. We all have our own way of being happy, I have been out of step with what makes the rest of the crowd happy most all of my life . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
60FlatTop Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 On my last purchase I combined color and texture. That is not a common choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryankazmer Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 The OEM styling departments watch what colors are trending in other industries which change faster (such as fashion and interior decorating), as well as the input from paint companies on this. They care about the segment of the population who buy or lease new vehicles. If that's not you, don't expect your opinion to influence their business decision. And at least in interiors, there is beginning to be a bit more color and contrast in some cars. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
63RedBrier Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 When we bought our 2005 Suburban new I was pretty open to exterior colors, other than black, but I was dead set on finding one with a tan interior, no black or dark charcoal! It was hard to find but I still like the white exterior and tan interior 140k+ miles later! My only wish is that the carpets would have been a darker color for spills, etc. As soon as I retire in the fall, I will replace the bottom of the driver's seat with fresh leather and replace the carpeting with a medium to darker brown. Our 2015 Holden SS only had one choice for interior color, dark charcoal/black, so that is what we got! The exterior is Some Like it Red Hot, medium metallic red in the shade, but burnt orange in the bright sun! Everyone in the family loves the color! My sister feels black interiors are great because they don't show the dirt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pfeil Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 13 hours ago, John348 said: 50 Shades of Grey And from somewhere out of our generation " whiter shade of pale" 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8E45E Posted February 24, 2022 Share Posted February 24, 2022 (edited) I've seen some rather wild colors on the new C8 Corvette, with the interior color to match...........and intentionally NOT match!! Craig Edited February 25, 2022 by 8E45E (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFranklin Posted February 25, 2022 Share Posted February 25, 2022 (edited) 9 hours ago, 63RedBrier said: ... My only wish is that the carpets would have been a darker color for spills, etc. As soon as I retire in the fall, I will replace the bottom of the driver's seat with fresh leather and replace the carpeting with a medium to darker brown. You can get great results with aerosol carpet dye sold at auto part stores. I have used them and they work very well and the color lasts. Edited February 25, 2022 by JFranklin (see edit history) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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