Our Prius Prime is “Magnetic Blue,” and we love it. It’s the first car we’ve had that wasn’t silver/light grey/dark grey or “oxidized who knows?” My partner loves that the car is easy to spot, it is nearly as safe as red or orange (according to my SIL who reads upon such things, then bought a black pickup truck to get groceries with) and it just looks happy.
Our last three cars have been white Hondas. Mainly because in all 3 cases, we bought them at the end of the model year (in the case of the Civic, AFTER the model year ended; there were already cars from the following year on the lot) and that’s what the dealerships had left, in all cases.
I swear, the next time we get a new car, which will quite likely be the last one we ever get, I’m gonna do the “order it and wait for it to arrive” thing. There ARE blue Hondas, but they’re pretty rare.
The white ones, though: well, go into any parking lot and look for a white SUV. There are rather a lot of them, and we frequently head to the wrong car.
My husband and I have both noticed the tendency lately to truly fugly car colors. The “been splashed in clay” grey, and “hospital green is too cheerful for me” drab green. Yecch. If it’s that, or white, or the other “every car is this color” silver, I’ll go with white or silver any day.
That’s called “I’m pining for my days as an Army Sergeant or I’m pretending I was cool enough to have been an Army Sergeant” green. They sell a lot of those to a certain demographic. Seems more of the wannabe latter crowd than the former.
I was about to start a thread about this. In my experience, there are two indicators that the economy is doing badly.
The first is billboards that advertise billboards. I have not seen an uptick of these yet.
The other is ugly car colors. The OP noted the plain pseudomilitary colors of drab green and gray. Just as bad are the bright orange and green that are starting to be seen. Perhaps this is a leading economic indicator.
Apparently the Toronto police agree with you …
They seemed to figure that gray with the traditional white doors looks stealthy and serious, unlike the old design that was deemed just too darned friendly-looking:
