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bUT My rESalE vAlUe!

Not just the color. Each make and model used to look distinct and unique. Now they all have the same vague SUV shape. It makes sense aerodynamics and safety standards are a thing but it still feels so corporate and almost dystopian.

It's like we live in a world built out of that gray shit inside that Krabby Patty in the one episode.

Well, gray and depressing does fit the times.

Yes.

Sick of the gray in cars, clothing, buildings, etc. etc. etc.

Paging through the 80s and 90s car colour options for somewhat mainstream cars like bmw is crazy in comparison to today. Sure they were the expensive paint option but there were hundreds.

There’s some awful colours today (eg you can get 3 shades of grey, red, or the precise shade of yellowish green that a newborn infant leaves in their diaper for a Prius). I say - at least it’s a colour.

Proudly owns a blue car in a sea of boring.

Kind of true also for housing.

You could also get factory colors “custom”. What was available at the dealership was one thing, but they had a host of other color options you could special order. Like upgrading from an AM radio to AM/FM Cassette. You just had to wait for the factory to do a run of that option before your car would get shipped. More options were a la carte and you weren’t forced into trim packages like today that are like cable tv packages - pay for a bunch of shit you don’t want to get the one or two options you do. Want AWD? Sure! But you have to take “premium sound”, floor mats, cargo separator, and exterior trim packages too.

there's a study that shows that car colorfulness is positively correlated to being in a good mood for longer periods of time (i.e. not having depression)

so, car colors reflect the mood of a society. and that they're all gray today is a bad sign.

there's a number of additional signs to read the mood of society. i was told by a colleague that the length of women's skirts is another indication (the shorter the skirt length, the better society's mood is overall).

i also believe that the music they play i.e. in the supermarket is a good indicator. the more love songs on the radio, the better the mood of society. the more break-up songs on the radio, the worse the mood of society.

Everyone wants a car that blends in so that they are less of a target for cops.

I miss cars that would last for 30 years more than choice of color.

That's more like 1974 than 1980.

All the crazy colors and styles originally happened to sell "self expression" because the culture was becoming more anti consumption. Advertisements for most things used to be more matter-of-fact, then they started focussing on manipulating emotions to sell more shit. I guess now the culture is more pro-consumption and status-obsessed, so conformity is what sells now.

Blame this on the car insurance companies. They claim that certain car colors are less likely to be in a wreck.

Also blame car manufacturers. Some colors cost more than others. Check the sticker price next time you're in the market.

Literally looking at a car I want to buy and the 4 colors are white, black, grey, and blue. Blue is actually just a cold silver. It barely looks blue.

On my current car, I ended up with white because the only one I saw in blue was charging $1k more than the one I got that had a higher trim package. They called me the day after I signed the purchase agreement to say that they decided to lower their asking price to $2k below what I paid. I still think about that...

What you miss is the oversaturated color in earlier photography.

Many people here say that people don't want to be targeted by cops but I don't feel like cops target colored cars specifically. At least where I live I feel like they target stereotypical vehicles, which would mean a combination of brand and model, color, tinted windows, any visible modding etc., and also the body style of the car. For example a gray roadster will have a higher chance to be targeted by the police than a yellow minivan. A modded car will always be stopped more than average.

So the way to not get targeted is to get a car that screams "mother/father of two in an unhappy marriage". Or go to the other extream and get whatever the mafia drives if you have the money. I have never seen a G-class Mercedes stopped by the police.

My current car is bright red. I bought it used without consideration to the color. That's been the case for every car I've owned. I've had orange, metallic beige (I think Honda called it "Champagne") three times, forest green twice, silver, and burgundy. I've never had blue, black, gray, or white.

If I got to pick, I think I'd choose candy apple red, burgundy metallic, or a deep cobalt blue metallic. I liked the green one okay, but I'm not a big fan of green.

What's with the melty slate colors lately?

"It comes in any color you want as long as it's black."

It's not quite as bad as it looks. The lower image either has had the saturation reduced or was taken with a potato, and the upper image has had the saturation increased. The lower image has a gold car (parked by an asshole) and a a couple red cars, but the image quality makes them hard to notice.

The upper image still has a lot more variety, but it's a bit misleading.