Comments on: Ugh

By: thomass

thomass — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 04:45:27 +0000

Marketing companies just work together to rotate through the colors (silver, black, white, maybe brown… repeat).

Once your stuff looks too dated (due to the color) to you; you start thinking of replacing it.

By: waltj

waltj — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 03:40:15 +0000

Like Sam, I’ve owned cars in a variety of colors: blues from sky to navy, reds from fire-engine to maroon, gold, and green. I guess if there’s one consistent theme, it’s that I’ve always bought a car that was a “real” color, not some shade of mud, or that could have been mistaken for the primer coat. I’d be ok with a silver, gray, or white car, but none of those would be a first or second choice. Brown? Maybe a rich bronze would be acceptable. Black? No way.

By: Sam L.

Sam L. — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:09:01 +0000

I’ve had dark blue, copper, white, silver, goldish, and darkish reds. The copper, and silver were in the desert, another silver, a blue, and a white in California smog. They all get dirty and dusty. Used to have to brush the enchantment out of copper and silver in NM.

By: Glen H

Glen H — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:42:52 +0000

Actually, white cars are pretty good for not showing dirt. I don’t know why this is. I can hit my fairly clean looking white car with water spray, and the dirt just pours off it.

By: I R A Darth Aggie

I R A Darth Aggie — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:22:18 +0000

The only decent car colors, as far as I am concerned, are fire-engine red or hunter green.

Henry Ford just called to say that he respectfully disagrees with you…

By: Tesh

Tesh — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:08:18 +0000

Color-wise, I’d prefer a nice deep navy or forest green, but functionally here in the Utah desert, a lighter tan wouldn’t be quite as hot as my forest green Toyota.

Still, as an artist, I’m sorely tempted to just do my own paint job. I’m not sure what that would do to the resale value or vandalism targeting, though. I can dream of gold Celtic knotwork on my forest green car, though.

By: MissJean

MissJean — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:59:26 +0000

I drive a silver car. I wanted the silvery-blue, but I had to get a new car in a hurry, so took what was on the lot. At the time, there were almost no other silver cars in my area, as the general trend was red, green, and black.

Best colour? My sister drives an anniversary edition Camaro with the “chameleon” paint job. Pretty!

By: Ruth H

Ruth H — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:51:01 +0000

Actually Book, sometimes we do. We drive either light tan or white. We live on a “caliche” rd. The dust doesnt’ show as much on our vehicles. That is why we have the colors we have. And it is true, we are in South Texas, they do reflect the heat.

By: Susanamantha

Susanamantha — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:41:55 +0000

We were given a loaner from the dealer while our car was being repaired. It was a beautiful black when we picked it up one evening. The next morning I was shocked to see that it was actually brown. Yuck. The only brown vehicle I can tolerate is the UPS truck, especially as it stops in front of my house.
BTW, our two cars are dark gray and white. I like the white, but not so much the gray. It will have to go, if I have any say about it.

By: John Dough

John Dough — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:27:09 +0000

Living in the desert Southwest, the only two colors that you buy are white and gold/tan. I love all of the easterners that have migrated to the desert driving around in their jet black or fire engine red cars in the summer. There isn’t enough auto air conditioning to keep these vehicles cool when it’s 109 outside