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I think an even rarer colour is Matte black even though its a colour still in production ive never seen one in the colour. Ive seen a YeYe green one coming back from sandbach.
Styling How many 500s in Ye Ye Green out there?
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Styling How many 500s in Ye Ye Green out there?
Maybe you are all seeing my one - I do get about!! I've seen 2 others around south Shrops in last year or so, one in same town as me (but recently chopped in for Audi a1....yawn....!). I've been told to expect better trade in if/when I change...not that I'm planning to! Nearly 3 years and 36k, regularly over 70mpg with my M-J..be hard to start paying more for tax and fuel.
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Got the impression that they've stopped making them since dealers having stopped taking orders for them.
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Have they really? If thats the case the web department are well behind the times as you can still configure one on fiats website lol.
In the austerity years after WWII, you could have a new car in any colour you wanted - as long as you wanted a black one. Waiting lists for new cars were invariably long - often measured in years - and a 12 month old car would sell secondhand for well over list price, so there wasn't any incentive for manufacturers to offer a choice. Once the postwar boom got underway in the 50's, the supply situation eased, competition returned to the markets, and car makers gradually began reintroducing colours. For a time, the choice was often either black or a shade of green remarkably close to Ye Ye - and I can still just remember from my early childhood, when the roads were dominated by a mixture of black & pale green cars.
By the early sixties, there was a real choice of colour, and both black & green became rather unfashionable as the nation sought to put twenty years of austerity behind them.
So Ye Ye is perhaps the most "authentic" colour of the age when the first Fiat 500s hit the road & IMHO it suits the retro style of the car very well. A shame it wasn't popular & has been discontinued. I think it will have a "cult" following & I'm sure Ye Ye cars will command an increasing premium on the secondhand market.
By the early sixties, there was a real choice of colour, and both black & green became rather unfashionable as the nation sought to put twenty years of austerity behind them.
So Ye Ye is perhaps the most "authentic" colour of the age when the first Fiat 500s hit the road & IMHO it suits the retro style of the car very well. A shame it wasn't popular & has been discontinued. I think it will have a "cult" following & I'm sure Ye Ye cars will command an increasing premium on the secondhand market.
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Have spotted a Matt Black one only the other day - parked in the underground carpark in Bloomsbury, London. Have to admit that 'colourway' with its blackboard appearance and texture really puts my teeth on edge (....fingernails running down the blackboard, yahhh).
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My parents had a predominance of green cars in the 70s. Not too sure if they were 'cheap' with them going 'out of fashion'. But our local mechanic used to pass by our house in the morning to make sure that our 'new' light slightly metallic green Vauxhall Viva had started. We has a dark green Morris Oxford that was bought from a 'reputable' Garage and it had a stolen engine - the Gardai thankfully allowed let us keep the car when they saw the gang of kids in the house. So we had an association with green being unlucky. Even though I was tempted last year by a ByDiesel model in an 'off' green - the childhood memories came back to haunt me.
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If it were really that great a colour, it would have been popular in the first place IMHO.
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Absolutely - and I don't buy the idea that it will be worth more now either. Fairly basic rules of supply and demand would suggest that a car hardly anyone wanted when it was new will not be worth more than a popular one when it is old!
Agree on the whole with the two posts above - however it wouldn't surprise me at all if the colour does get a cult following and is sought after in 10-15 years, thus increasing prices.
It's not my cup of tea, but it is something a bit different which is always nice.
It's not my cup of tea, but it is something a bit different which is always nice.
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I seen one in flesh for the first time today shooting through some traffic lights in Stratford on an 08 plate ending in OJE. It looked ok but it really is a Marmite kind of colour.
I dunno if Ye Ye Green will be worth a great deal more than other models, BUT, because they're rarer and there does appear to be a few people who'd like one if they were still available, i think people will be able to sell one easier than they might be able to shift a Bossa Nova White one, partly because it's so unlikely to find more than a couple for sale at one time, you'd just have to get it, rather than being picky on every last detail like with a more common BN White one.
Personally i think Fiat could've given the dropped colours like Ye Ye Green, Punk Grey, Jive Blue, Calypso Orange more of a chance. They were abit hasty in dropping them & even tho it suits the 500 well, it does get abit tedious seeing BN white ones ALL the time. Quite glad that the newer ones i've seen seem to be in other colours like Volare Blue, Techhouse Grey etc, and hopefully the new TwinAir trim will promote Midnight Indigo Blue. Makes things more interesting.
Personally i think Fiat could've given the dropped colours like Ye Ye Green, Punk Grey, Jive Blue, Calypso Orange more of a chance. They were abit hasty in dropping them & even tho it suits the 500 well, it does get abit tedious seeing BN white ones ALL the time. Quite glad that the newer ones i've seen seem to be in other colours like Volare Blue, Techhouse Grey etc, and hopefully the new TwinAir trim will promote Midnight Indigo Blue. Makes things more interesting.
I had not seen a fiat 500 on the road by the time I was hospitalised for a week in Oct 2008, and in my 6 weeks recovering at home, was when I saw an advert for it when I googled 'green cars'. I started researching the 500 the moment I set eyes on it, and knew instantly it was the car I wanted and intended to buy.
Calypso orange and ye ye were obviousloy going to be the minority choices, but whilst the car was still rare it seemed unfair to remove them, because we didnt get to see them except online. I think whilst I was working out my wishlist the ye ye was removed, and by the time I got into the dealer to test drive I was told the calypso had been withdrawn. I think if I saw a fiat 500 in my area just once a week I was excited, but they were all varying shades of white.
The ye ye worked beutifully with the shape of the car, and I think had the option been available at the point the 500 flooded on the market there would have been proportionally an increased amount of ye ye's around.
Calypso orange and ye ye were obviousloy going to be the minority choices, but whilst the car was still rare it seemed unfair to remove them, because we didnt get to see them except online. I think whilst I was working out my wishlist the ye ye was removed, and by the time I got into the dealer to test drive I was told the calypso had been withdrawn. I think if I saw a fiat 500 in my area just once a week I was excited, but they were all varying shades of white.
The ye ye worked beutifully with the shape of the car, and I think had the option been available at the point the 500 flooded on the market there would have been proportionally an increased amount of ye ye's around.
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There's a yeye green in cleethorpes
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There was a diesel one at the Edinburgh BCA car auctions in May. I wanted to go up there to bid on it but a 350 mile trip up there was a bit risky if I got into a bidding war and I lost out. I wanted that colour as soon as I saw it but only this year I got the chance to buy a 500. I am now the proud owner of a BNW 500 which I think is quite retro due to it's off whiteness. Ye Ye means paternal grand father in chinese btw.
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I was a bit apprehensive driving from Cleethorpes to Wales for Poppy in case I didn't like her in the flesh.
I had test driven a new one locally, but had only seen photographs of the colour. Needless to say I fell in love at first sight
I had test driven a new one locally, but had only seen photographs of the colour. Needless to say I fell in love at first sight
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Really? See it parked off Grimsby road not sure the exact road, hopefully be around that way in a 500 soon!
Hi there,
I bought a ye ye green fiat 500 in June and I live in Bristol. A bit like you I was determined to have that colour as I love all things vintage and thought it had a kind of retro feel about it. I love the green and cream interior and I drove quite a way to get mine as well - Eastbourne actually! The guys at the garage and my partner thought I had lost it - I just become very determined when I know what I want! It was really worth it, because I love it and the colour. It's a real treat for me because I had been driving a VW polo for 12 years and it was very faded red (pink) and sad! Everyone, I know really likes the colour and its the only one I have seen in the Bristol area. It's a 08 reg and due its first MOT by the end of this month.
Just wondered if you saw the posts about the paint, the fact that it is waterbased in case you need to do some repair work. I was wondering whether or not to order a pot for covering up stone chips e.t.c.
Enjoy!
