I drive a Subaru Crosstrek. It’s official color name is Desert Khaki. It looks like a greenish tan. It
I don’t like to get the same color over and over again. I think I’ve only had 2 cars that were the same color which was white. I’ve had dark green, red, dark blue, silver/gray, burgundy, and medium blue. I’d like to see a deep turquoise color come out. I love seeing and buying new colors.
Blue. Every new car I’ve bought has been some color. I’ve had to settle for monochrome on too many used cars because that seems to be ~70% of the market.
“Crystal Soul Red”, which is a color Mazda will charge you an extra $500 for. It was also the only “non-boring” color they were offering at the time, although I think they also have a shade of blue available now too. But I actually get people coming up to me in parking lots to compliment the color. Since it’s a Miata a lot of people will come up to talk to me about the car itself, but I actually get quite a few people who just like the color.
The New York Times recently had an article about that recently. It’s apparently rather dependent on the type of vehicle. A red Miata will have a higher resale value than a grey one, I assume because people buying a sports car want an exciting color, while more utilitarian vehicles do better in “boring” colors. But oddly yellow actually has the highest resale value overall, not because it’s popular, but because the small subset of people who actually want yellow will pay for it apparently. According to the article white/grey/silver only produces a middle of the road resale value.
I just did some Google street viewing in Osaka and it does seem like more than half are white, and most of the rest are black. The only colored vehicles I saw were commercial ones.
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Does Maroon count as Red? It’s not what I’d picture if you told me that a car was red, but it’s the closest of the options you’ve given.
I agree. Maroon is not what I think of as red, even though it could be described as brownish red. Or it could be brownish purple. Same with burgundy, Ron or otherwise ...
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“Crystal Soul Red”, which is a color Mazda will charge you an extra $500 for. It was also the only “non-boring” color they were offering at the time
It's what I call Mazda Red. It's beautiful and unique.
So what happen to Green as a fairly common car color? I always liked a nice green but it seems like the color has mostly disappeared.
I’ve had Brown, Black, Magenta, White, Beige/Harvest Gold, Blue & Red.
In the 70s it seems like greens were fairly common.
My very first car started as a deep red. The color in the middle of the door shown below. By the time I got it, it was dark grey with crappy pinstripes.
They absolutely were. Our neighbors in the '70s always bought green cars (a series of unremarkable American-made sedans).
More recently, we had a green Subaru Outback, though that was a '97. I suspect that, outside of the “big six” colors (white, black, gray, silver, blue, red), green (like yellow) is probably more limited now to either sportier cars, or cars with a younger target audience, and is now rare-to-nonexistant in sedans and SUVs, which is most of the market.
As car color trends go, it seems like green went through another period of popularity in the 1990s, specifically the darker “hunter green” or “forest green”. My old Saturn was that shade of dark green, and I agree it was a nice looking color.
And I have to admit when I first learned they charged extra for that color I cynically assumed it was simply “because they can” (Although I did pay it). But I later learned that color does actually require a special painting process, so I guess I have to concede that they are probably justified in charging more for it.
One of the tricks I learned is to have a sunroof. Crack it open and the heat build-up inside won’t be so bad. Also, a sunroof actually can help protect the occupants in a rollover situation because the roof is less likely to cave in due to weight distribution.
They were. My older brother, who had preferred exotic sports cars when he was younger, got a green American sedan after he got married and settled down in suburbia in the late 60s or early 70s. There was also a lot more green on the road back then due to the vast fleet of Bell Telephone vehicles, all of which were green as in the pic below. That particular truck is vintage 1957, but I think the green livery persisted well into the 70s and maybe even 80s.
It seems like a pleasant restful colour and it’s a mystery why it’s become so unpopular.