When’s the last time you saw a car other than red, black, blue, gray, or white on the road?

Like, what happened to all the pinks, purples, oranges, yellows, and greens I remember from the 90s?

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    There’s an orange truck on our street but I swear half the cars on the road here are white. What the fuck is up with all those white cars?

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    1 day ago

    Once of my sisters has a… what is it called… champagne (I think) colored SUV. One of my brothers has a bright green car, like a kiwi lime color. Another brother has a 2 tone car that’s half orange half black.

    I’ve got a dark blue myself, but if I could afford a paint job it would without a doubt be a nice yellow. Like a dandelion kind of shade. I absolutely looooove the color yellow.

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    2 days ago

    I see green and orange Subarus. There’s an iridescent pink Tesla in my neighborhood. Those colors aren’t as common as the black and white ones mentioned above.

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      2 days ago

      If full vinyl wraps were cheaper, you’d see iridescent pink and purple and orange cars everywhere!

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    2 days ago

    Someone near me drives one of those pink Mary K cars, so I see it pretty frequently. It’s also not too uncommon to see forest green SUVs in the area also.

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    2 days ago

    My theory of because of the rental fleet to used car lots flow. Rental fleets will buy newer cars, then sell them back to the dealerships so they can sell them as used cars. It’s much easier to sell generic coloured cars, than highlighter piss yellow

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    2 days ago

    I saw an orange car yesterday. I don’t know the model.

    I want a car that is painted with only vibrant colors, and different colors for each part of the car. It would look hideous, but at least I would never lose it in a parking lot.

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    3 days ago

    Today, because my car is green 😝

    I actually hate the attention it gets, but I’m poor and it was cheap. Never seems like a good idea to me if other drivers can easily remember you. On the other hand, I can always find it in a big parking lot.

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    2 days ago

    I see a beat up old lime green Hilux around where I live with a big “The Sword” sticker on the aide window of the camper. I want to have a beer and listen to good metal with the owner.

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    3 days ago

    I’m from the UK and recently was in Toronto so rented a car to get around and also to drive to Montreal. We will observed that all the cars were very limited in colours. Is it a North American thing?

    In the UK, it has been getting less diverse but still a fair bit of variety

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    2 days ago

    My partner and I drive a bright green Chevy Bolt EV (“Shock” is the official name of the color) and we love the smiles we sometimes get.

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    3 days ago

    Every day. But I’m living in one of the most show off cities in the US. There is no day without spotting a 200k+ car.
    Wraps, plasti-dips are really really common. And actually doing a full paint job is relatively cheap also

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      3 days ago

      Same but im also in a VERY car centric city. They dont always look good here haha.

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        3 days ago

        Nope h the question of “why would they pay for that?” Comes often to my mind.
        I just saw a pearl white wrapped tesla. It had a very very light pink sheen to it, it was basically 99% white…