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?

[lasttimeround]

I think it's harder to see a black car against the road. Wouldn't have a black car for that reason. Or navy.

[WaitrosePigeon]

Black and grey are so boring for cars. Makes me think the driver is boring too

You really think that the colour of someone's car (that they may have had no choice in choosing for example) may mean that the driver is boring? Crikey.

[Trufflethewuffle]

We have had a couple of black cars in the past. Last one was a white body with a black roof.

When you live in the sticks with muck all over the roads none of them look clean for very long.

We did find that black cars could be touched up with boot polish which was useful at times.

[DustyMaiden]

My car is black and a bmw so now I'm not just twat but a boring twat.😀

[UterusUterusGhali]

I'd never ever by red. And White looks a bit try-hard.

I'd always choose black if I had the choice, but blue and grey are acceptable.

The only absolute deal breaker though is a grey/beige dash. That must be black. I had beige once and it reflects so badly on the windscreen! It's so distracting, I'm surprised it's allowed!

[BrillianaHarvey]

dustymaiden Ours will be a BMW too. I feel your pain.

[Theoretician]

A prestige car looks very nice in black, but I wouldn't have one unless I could afford a chauffeur to get it cleaned daily.

I've always avoided silver because it was so boring and common, but objectively it's a very good colour for a car in the UK. In grey city light it's quietly luminous.

Less keen on darker grey's, but they have some of the dignity of black without showing the dirt as much.

Never understood why the British think yellow is an outrageous colour for a car. Red is a far more in-your-face colour, and has never been completely out of fashion.

White was regarded as a terrible colour for a car when I arrived here, now white is the new silver. White is an excellent colour, in a bright sunny country, but not in a grey rainy muddy country.

One of the options I considered last time was an Audi A5, Audi allow you (for a price) to choose from about a hundred custom colours, I would have had it in dark purple.

I bought a metallic red Golf, but would rather have had yellow or purple. I've subsequently discovered that in Germany you can get VWs in the same range of custom colours as Audis. I wonder if it would have been possible to order a UK-specification Golf in a custom colour from a German dealer. (In fact I now have a vague recollection that if you get your UK dealer to contact UK HQ, they can put through orders to manufacturing for specifications which don't officially exist in the UK. Apparently even most dealers don't know this is possible.)

[Theoretician]

How about "hint of lilac" for a large german luxury car? I'm thinking of something analogous to a flavoured water: ostensibly the car would be silver but there would be a hint of colour (lilac or maybe light blue) flavouring the silver. So you get the advantages of silver, without being boring.

[Smoogi]

Henry Ford is that you, OP?

[Liiinoo]

Our last two cars were black, not through choice, just that was what was available. I hate them, because a black car is hard to see on a dark road surface especially when it is raining. When the current one is replaced I am going to insist on a colour - red or a nice metallic blue maybe. Our DDs car is black too and both DDs boyfriends drive black cars. When they are all parked outside it does look funereal.

I am awestruck by all these posters who clean their cars. Ours gets washed (sometimes) when it goes in for a service. Life is too short for car washing.

[RB68]

From a safety perspective, given a choice i would always go for a bright coloured car, maybe not a banana mobile or a pea as they get called in this house but I have had metallic orange and metallic turquoise and loved them

[RB68]

oh and my picasso was a silver with a hint of lilac as well - just generally disliked that though

[MrsLion]

My last car was a very dark metallic green. Almost black but not quite and it was unusual. It looked amazing.

[SpookyPotato]

I do love black and dark grey cars but that's only compared to the other dull colours around. Hate this light silver that's everywhere. I wish there were brighter colours to choose from!

[TrueBlueYorkshire]

When i lived in Australia i always had white cars due to the heat from the sun. In the UK both cars have been grey which is boring, but it does hide all the winter muck slightly better than black or white.

[HateSummer]

I have a black car. I'd never drive a red car. It's too "look at me, look at meee!", same with white cars.

I'd drive a navy, forest green or any kind of metallic green/blue car. I don't like silver either.

[SpookyPotato]

We have a car that's dark blue metallic but with a purple hint- it's a rare colour as the mechanic struggled to find the paint but it's so beautiful to look at. It's easy to find in a car park!

[Branleuse]

black cars are harder to see in low light

my car is boring blue. I didnt choose it for its colour

[MmmCuriouSir]

Black is the least safe.

[RebelandaStunner]

The only black car we had was huge and looked like a hearse. I hated it. DH who choose it (and had lusted after it hated it too after a couple of months)
I like blue cars best.
My pils always pick red for some reason.

[londonrach]

My old red car not faded either. Safest colour according to aa is red and i get a reduction on car insurance due to the safe colour. I asked. 🤗

[Jecan]

We bought a new car fairly recently and deliberately didn't choose black as it's an SUV and looks like a security detail car for a president when it's black. So it a lovely metallic red - I still smile when I see it in a car park.

But a friend did say "what? You bought a red car? God I would never buy a red car"!! Thoughtless much!

[a7mints]

Grey cars are involved in the most accidents, blend into the road too well

[Batteriesallgone]

YABU

Orange and purple are the only colours for cars.

I used to think like you OP but I now live on a street with some awesome brightly coloured cars and we love them.

[SistersOfPercy]

The Percy household perspective

Blue is unlucky. Every blue car we've ever owned has either been hit or died.
Silver is ok, but mechanically shite.
White, nice, but a bit plain. Plenty of graphics to brighten
Red. The Inlaws car colour. Every. Single. One. For. 20. Years.
Black. Not a colour we'd choose but was the cheapest on the lease deal, so we now have a black car. Quite like it actually!