Why do most car manufacturers have no imagination when it comes to car exterior colors? Spent four hours looking at used cars today and no one had anything decent that wasn't white, red, black or silver.
@RobinLily Was it expensive to paint?
@Pepstar Yes. I had the inner door frames done and everything. It saved me from being tempted to buy a new car, though.
@Pepstar Actually, it has more to do with what the public will buy, the cost and durability of the pigments. There are a ton of very colorful car paints including color changing ones. Most folks want black, white and silver (white and silver cars also stay cooler). A few more daring folks want red. One reason that folks favor them is that traditional colors increase a car's resale value. I once got a used purple minivan for $1000 less cuz it was purple. :D
@TrueBloodNet I don't know about it increasing resale values. All the blue cars we wanted here sold before we had a chance to get them. We have our names at dealerships now, in case anything comes in. We lost out on 3 cars in the last 3 days. And that's only blue. I would LOVE a purple car, LOL
@Pepstar @TrueBloodNet
Butting in.... highly approve the purple car idea 💜 I lucked out getting my Aegean blue Honda a couple years ago
@PurpleDragon @TrueBloodNet Closest I came was my 2003 PT Cruiser in Cranberry. We still it, 20 years later. It just rolled over 100K miles and is still going but my wife really wants a blue car.
@Pepstar @PurpleDragon Hope you find what you want! :)
@PurpleDragon @Pepstar Nice. :)
If I'm choosing, I always get silver because the paint is more durable and it keeps the car cooler. That said, aside from the purple minivan I had a green jag (hardtop) but the paint was trashed cuz.. El Paso.
@TrueBloodNet @Pepstar Yeah the sun can be brutal here in the southwest.
A purple minivan would be epic 🤩
@PurpleDragon @Pepstar And the windstorms. El Paso gets horrendous windstorms coming from the West every Spring. One side of the car had no clearcoat at all. LOL
@TrueBloodNet @Pepstar oh yes, here too. I'm hoping they've improved the paint.
@PurpleDragon @TrueBloodNet I lived in AZ for 14 years. The sun is brutal indeed.
@Pepstar You can't find them because fewer of them sold originally. In addition, more darker colored cars (including black) get in accidents. But with black, a ton of folks buy them so there's not an aftermarket shortage.
@Pepstar No kidding. When my Subaru got to a certain age, I had it painted an idiosyncratic color so I could find it among all the others.