(OT) My exploit yellow 75 elx

Possibly brown will be returning if things get worse

On of my neighbours bought a brand new Porsche 911 (992) last year and bearing in mind these are a £83k minimum they went for grey. Not metallic, not matt, just a flat primer grey.

Now don’t get me wrong it is a lovely looking car it just needs to have been painted after they applied the primer

We specced our car 3 years ago, as well as all the usual suspects (gunmetal silver, red, black etc.) we had the option of a nice orange, a strong solid blue and the Almond Green we currently have. Also multiple choices for the roof and trims.

Current options if speccing same car today..



So 2 colours and grey...though the blue and red are a nice vibrant shade at least.

Harry Hill sketch looming..

Pensioner Beige vs Underseal Grey

I'll stick with 'midnight blue'

this is absolutely true, my 'new' car is sparkly white which the vast majority of them are, either that or black. You could get it in a deep red or a blue but those would've cost you near enough £1000 extra. I miss the ridiculous green of my Punto

Thing that gets on my t*ts is the interior colour - you can have any colour you like as long as it's black. Go on any new car configurator now and the ONLY colour available is black. A lot of them (tried one last week - Polo I think) don't even have an interior configurator bit - just skips it because there is no choice

So you get an outside 'choice' which is greyblacksilverwhite (50 shades of grey) plus a blue that's really grey and a red that's really grey (one of them - VW again I think - even has a yellow that's really grey). And an interior 'choice' of black, black, black, black or black.

As has been said, acceptance of it is linked to economic and general other misery of life at the moment (I am a European expat - life is REALLY tough). But it is also cynical manipulation on the part of the manufacturers - running only one interior colour line and painting all the cars grey but charging extra for colour is WAY cheaper than offering about 100 colour choices, as Lancia (Fiat really - it's 100% Punto S1 mechanically) did on my Y when it was new. The Germans started it - they did their cars silver or white because those were their racing colours and it gives a 'techy', 'hewn from steel' look. And hey, it's cheaper too. And as everyone is trying to pretend to be like the Germans, the consequences were predictable.

From Auto****e - apparently there were 112 exterior colours available. And a pretty amazing range of interior colours, mostly in alcantara.

Just wrap it. Probably no less a cost than speccing a colour from new but you get to choose the details and can re do it when you get bored. Save some film for fixing minor scuffs. What could possibly go wrong? Potentially, quite a lot, because a proper job demands serious skills around windows, door edges, handles etc.

tbf you could get a pretty good professional wrap for the cost some manufacturers charge for a ceramic coating.. Which is worth at best about 3.99 and an hour to apply it shoddily lol.
If i ever bought a brand new car (never gonna happen) i would totally whatever i thought was most resalable and get it wrapped even if it did come in 10k colour options