To think that black is the only colour for a car?

[BrillianaHarvey]

Apart from cute little Fiats or whatever, which can carry pink, lime green etc quite happily...
But a grown up car: can it be a colour that's not black? Or maybe, at a pinch, very dark metallic grey?
And if it's black outside, does it have to be black inside as well?
Obviously I use the term 'has to' loosely and not in a sense that everyone will be willing to recognise. But basically, if you were buying a car, and had some input as to colour, would you go for anything that wasn't black?

[Itsallabitcrazyhere]

Mines painted in 'Soul Red'. It's quite deep red with a metallic overlay, she's very nice to look at.

Hubs had a yellow car when I met him and for quite a while after, was brilliant to find .. I quite often park, go do something and totally forget where I left the car.

[TremoloGreen]

We have a silver car but my next one will be red or another 'easy to see' colour as I have developed a real driving anxiety since DD2 was born (long story) and these are the things I think about nowadays.

Can;t care much about resale value as I will drive it into the ground as always.

[GiddyOnZackHunt]

When I have my unobtainable car it will be as red as it can be.
We currently have 3 black cars. Not by design.
My black car doesn't look dirty. Our old neighbours were convinced I took it to the car wash regularly. Mind you they are a bit batty :)

[HellsBellsAndBucketsOfBlood]

I have a bright red people carrier.....I think it must have an invisibility switch that I keep flicking by accident, because nobody seems to sodding see it, pedestrians and motorists alike.

I've had it since Christmas, silver one before, only once had the invisibility issue....and that was a foggy day!

[ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe]

Cats are bastards.

[ChardonnayKnickertonSmythe]

Oh...
As you were.

[DarklyDreamingDexter]

To each his/her own. Black and grey are dull as ditch water in my view. Red is my absolute fave, with white or blue in second and third place. The only colour which I find really vile is the new 'hot mustard' colour Ford has brought out - or 'hot phlegm' as I like to call it! (There must be some who bloody love it though!)

[FluffyFluffster]

I wanted a blue car but ended up with a black one. Can confirm it's difficult to keep clean. I like gunmetal grey cars. I think they look swish.

I'm also part of the anti-red and yellow car brigade. Other people's don't bother me but there was no way I was getting one for myself!!

[Redglitter]

Our car park at work is a mass of boring black and silver. My lovely very bright blue car stands out and cheers me up. Ivery only had one black car and it was only because it was the only colour available.

I'd never pick black or silver if I had a choice

[HardcoreLadyType]

I am so done with black, grey and other sludge coloured cars.

We bought a car earlier this year, and I had the choice of white, two different reds, blue, and about 10 different shades of sludge.

I went with one of the reds.

When I see the same model driving around, it is often the same colour as mine. I am sure others, like me, are desperate for a bit of colour after all those years of "sensible, don't show the dirt" non-colours.

[e1y1]

No YANBU .

DH has very strict instructions on car colour; only 3 are acceptable - Black, Silver or a very dark Blue (like a midnight blue that usually looks the best part of Black anyway)

[MaxPepsi]

My car is black, completely black including the alloys. It looks fucking ace and I'd happily get another one like it.
However I did not choose it, the dealership cocked up so I got it by default.
DH washes and polishes it but I cant say its any muckier than the blue, red or silver cars I had before it!

[BrillianaHarvey]

We are not manic car polishers, so we're getting a quote on a sludge grey one. Black interior. I think another red car would be dull and none of the other colours floats my boat.
But - more exciting than anything in the world, ever - it will park itself!!!!!

[FlyingElbows]

We have a black one and a very very very dark grey one. The black one is always dirty but that's because it gets driven on fields! It is my beautiful pimp/drug dealer car and I love it. Imo everything should be black. However, the lovely Bentley I covet is so very very nice in dark blue.

[BrillianaHarvey]

I do like the idea of having a pimp/drug dealer car!

[Iizzyb]

Used to have British racing green mini. Needed washing all the bloody time it looked filthy constantly. Now have darkish grey. It is boring in comparison but you cannot tell when it needs a wash. Blooming brilliant & saves me a fortune (plus I don't have time to queue at the car wash anymore!)

[JaceLancs]

Current car is green, previous cars were dark blue, red, white, silver, orange, white, red, blue
I avoid red as kept them long enough to go pink in places
Black is boring n needs frequently cleaning
I didn't choose green but quite like it now
If I had to choose I would go for silver, silvery blue or grey
White drove me mad for constant cleaning

[Janey50]

Another one here that read the OP as cat rather than car. Being the owner of a black cat I thought no,YANBU!

[MrsMook]

My two cars have been second hand, so no genuine choice of colour. They've both been the over popular dark silver that seems to have been most common for their model. Not unpleasant, but dull.

Black would have to be a seriously good bargain for me to sink to such depth of boringness. I could possibly have to resort to something like eyelashes or daisy stickers to make black look classy

Whatever happened to the lovely ranges of metalic colours of the 90s?

Black, silver, white, yawn, yawn, yawn.

[HerRoyalNotness]

My mother used o drive a yellow ford cortina, it was the bomb.

I've had an orange car, now that is traffic.

Current car is champagne pearlescent beige, DHs is silver. Last car was a beautiful metallic grey, we miss that one so much.

Have also had black, electric blue, red and erm, that's probably it

[HerRoyalNotness]

tragic! But it did stop traffic I'm sure

[LikeDylanInTheMovies]

White - naff
Red - fades to pink
Black - boring, shows the dirt. Makes estate cars look like a hearse and large saloons look like mourning cars.

Grey - ditto, but conceals dirt
Silver - my least favourite, the tapwater of car colours.
Maroon - old man
Navy - ditto.
Orange - lairy
Lime Green - ditto

I quite like the mint green used on Fiat 500s. I'm also a big fan of the duck egg blue Mini use. I'm not over enamoured with either car, but love those shades.

Thankfully I don't have to think about resale value as every car I've owned (White, Maroon and Navy) has ended up at the scrapyard. Aside from the Navy one, that is still going strong.

[IWasGintyMarlowe]

i don't drive but if i did then i would consider all sorts of nice colours. even pink or purple or orange. not only having black cars makes the roads look pretty!

[UptownFlunk]

Depends on the car surely? After years of buying cheap, dull cars, DH and I went wild and bought an Audi TT recently. We decided that the red and white ones looked far too flash and indicative of a midlife crisis (although we were clearly having one we didn't want to advertise it). It just looked much, much more stylish in the dark grey with black trim. Black TTs were no good either as the trim got lost on the bodywork. The problem was that there are far more white and red ones around so ours was more expensive and we had to travel miles to find it. It was so worth it though - I've never had a car that people stop me to tell me how beautiful it is before.

[katemess12]

Agree.

Depends on the car though, like you said. I'd happily get a Mini in dark green, or a vintage car in red or green etc. But all of the cars I've bought new have been black. They look better. Also, no hotter in summer (I live in Australia, so would know about this) and no more difficult to keep clean than blue, green, grey etc.