Car Colors

[wolf]

Sometimes strange things occur to me, and then kick around in my brain for awhile.

This is one of those things.

What the heck has happened with car colors? Used to be pretty simple ... white, red, burgundy, light and dark green, light and dark blue, black, silver gold ... couple metalflake variants.

Lately I've been seeing some majorly weird colors.

Yes, I recognize that it's part of the same "logic" that drove Crayola to delete eight perfectly good (and important) colors from the box and replace them with eight "fresher, hipper colors".

But I've been noticing car colors that must require a major dealer incentive to get these beasts off the lot ... especially the Nissan Xterra ... School Bus Yellow? Who in their right mind would buy that? I keep waiting for the red lights to stop flashing and several developmentally impaired children to get off when I'm behind one of these at a corner.

Purple is another one that seems strange on the street. I guess I should be grateful that it's not lavender. Pink Champagne (which was a pinky-brown color offered by Nissan seemed like another dealer-incentives applied color to me.

VW is one of the major culprits here, partcularly with the new Beetles ... some of the 'special edition' colors (i'm mostly thinking Venom) are offensive to the eye. They are also responsible for Orange as a car color, back in the day.

VW also had some specialty colors for their regular sedans, but they weren't quite as bad ... in the right light Dutch Blue was kind of nice.

I do admit that some of the specialty paints, like black cherry and oilslick, which I think were available on some GM products. were kind of cool, but I wouldn't have bought 'em myself.

Ah, mebbe I'm just cranky. But I know I'm right.