Horribly boring colors on new cars

[AOS-]

I like a metallic brown... no I LOVE it....

but it's very car-dependent though.

 

[motortrend]

then there's MY color of car. everybody calls it "green" (including garage guys), and I keep going "huh"? the closest I can find to the pain chip name actually is green "light Cyprus Green Metallic" or is that pearl, cause in bright sunlight it turns very silver, and only looks vaguely green to me (i actually thought it was "Champagne")

Just like desert sage, which looks pretty silverlike in light but a nice light green with some pleasant yellow thrown in at night.

A color that could be cansidered boring is black, but there are some very interesting shades of black like Jerez Black which is offered on the M3:

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And as you can see there has an interesting purple-ish color when hit by sunlight

 

[alex10798]

I think that's just the reflection of the sky on the car.

 

[motortrend]

I think that's just the reflection of the sky on the car.

No, the color is actually a tad blue which makes it look purple, here is direct light on the car:

 

[Eric.]

Lots of blacks have colored flake in them. Nighthawk Black Pearl (one of Honda's blacks) has blue flake. A Subaru black had blue flake also, and another has gold flake.

Looks like the M3 really is a dark blue/violet, though, instead of the metal flake giving it that look.

 

[BrutherSuperior]

Lots of blacks have colored flake in them. Nighthawk Black Pearl (one of Honda's blacks) has blue flake. A Subaru black had blue flake also, and another has gold flake.

Looks like the M3 really is a dark blue/violet, though, instead of the metal flake giving it that look.

I hate sprinkles & sparkles in black paint...so do body shops. Absolute bastard to match if you're touching it up and the bumpers never match the metal bits correctly. The only thing I might dislike more than that is the white primer OEMs spray under it.

Call me old school but black should be black...like coffee. None of that Starbucks sprinkles, sparkles, and all the other goofy **** they put in their terrible coffee.

 

[Antonisbob]

Wow! I thought I was the only one who noticed this. I say every new car comes in silver, white or black. Then there's the odd dark blue & dark red. What ever happened to the wild/awesome colors of the '50s - '80's? Old cars for life! Just one of the 1000's of reasons I will never buy a car newer than the '80s.