Why Car Colors Are Boring Now
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Plum Crazy. Ginsburg Yellow. Grabber Blue. These are just a few of the coolest colors to be put on our favorite cars. But there’s a problem: automakers don’t seem to paint their cars like they used to. Join Nolan and explore what changed in the automotive market, and find out why carmakers choose to be less risky with their color palettes. It’s a problem!
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What's a color you wish your favorite manufacturer would bring back?
Bright orange and teal/aqua.
Mitsubishi YELLOW EVO
Kevin Clark what car?
Nissan's Midnight Purple. I think my profile pic says it all;)
Electric blue
Delorean:
*laughs in unpainted stainless steel*
Which was known to be horrendous
Mr Myra do you even know what stainless steel means?
*coughs in cybertruck*
@@EmptyCheetosBag Yes
Dealers did paint some of them red, black, or white in an effort to try to sell them. (I think there were more colors idk, but those three were the most common)
“Im thinking there will be another recession in the next couple of years”
Ya don’t say, more like right now
Year, days, or before the video uploaded, who knows?
Buffalo FPV these are prerecorded so yeah
Dude it's not that big of a deal. The toilet paper thing is a problem though.
This video was probably made about a month or 2 ago waiting for a Lawyer to check over the video and ensure that there was no copyright infringment so before the current recession caused by shortages due to the CCP Coronavirus outbreak.
While the market sucks right now, it’s not a recession until there are two consecutive quarters of GDP decline. One quarter of GDP decline is a contractio
I think we're also just currently in an aesthetic period of mass minimalism; it's not just cars. Just look at all the flat design icons and logos. Even renovated fast food restaurants like McDonalds, Wendys, Taco Bell, etc, literally just look like giant gray and black blocks now.
A McDonald's that I recently visited in Tallinn, Estonia, had gone through a redesign, and many of the interiour colour accents were dark. A redesigned Circle-K also had a mix of dark/earthy and metallic on equipment and wooden / light wooden at the cashier table (maybe simply because it was one of the oldest pieces of furniture at that place). The eating table was dark, with pots of live flowers/greenery in the middle.
A "Lido" - a Latvian restaurant chain, also in Tallinn - had lighter accents, though again with a metallic colour for equipment, and wooden accents for customer furniture.
Most big grocery / one-stop stores in Estonia have plenty of loud colours, usually alternating between red, dark blue/navy blue, and light beige. Prisma stores (similar in quality to Publix) are loud green.
All mall interiors in Estonia have varieties of white-to-beige.
For gadgets, the first half of the 1990s had a mix of off-white, beige, shiny silver (for fancy stuff), and gray (think early PowerBooks).
All-black designs were popular in the mid-1990s, sometimes with a small red accent. Probably inspired by ThinkPads and red indicator LEDs or red buttons.
Translucent was in vogue, along with flashy colours inspired by iMacs (1998 and on a little).
Gray, dark gray, off-black in the first half 2000s.
Silver and black combinations for gadgets in the second half of 2000s.
It's not as if there's less colour, but many things with colour tend to be less loud, and more like pastel, as if the paint were made to blend in with the rest of the gadget. So it's probably a mix of pastel colours and tropical fruit and tropical nature colours on gadgets.
Whereas many people wear either subdued patterns or neon for workwear.
Young men in Estonia are either of the two:
One group really likes black, even in the Summer: wearing black T-shirts, black shorts, with matching shoes.
The other group wears white tank tops to show off their physiques.
White and light-coloured clothes are necessary, because they allow people to notice ticks.
This. Design trends are a thing.
this car color trend is goin back to early 2000s, when every car was silve/black/grey..its same thing why nolan wears dark blue t shirt in this vid, people rather keep to them selves, blend in, not get bothered and bother others, baicaly keeping evring on the downlow, it was way before flat design era
Resale value
@mardus_ee I wear mostly black outside, although not so much in the summer.
White tank top at home because its comfortable.
Yes, I am a young Estonian man😅.
Never really thought about it but I guess white-to-black colors are easier to wear no matter where you go. And you can't go everywhere dressed like a rainbow
I had a nice pearl blue 15 years ago and had to settle for buying a silver in 2019 because that’s all they had. Thank you for outlining this.
My very first car was a '64 Continental in Seafoam Blue. LOVELY car, and it drove like a dream! Bought it in 1987 for $2000 and sold it in 1997 for $3000, to a fellow who could afford the increasingly expensive repairs. Now I've got a VW convertible bug which I love too, but of course it's charcoal grey. Oh well.
Can we just appreciate that dodge brought back/tried to bring back all those wild colors they had in the past.
All dodge’s cars are from like 10 years ago...
Dusto-Plays haha!
Yeahhh but dodge/Chrysler/Jeep/Fiat makes SHIT now😂🚙😬
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The Go Mango version of the Challenger is pretty cool.
And I quote: ”I’m thinking that there is going to be a rescission in the next couple of years” that didn’t even have time to age lol
Not even a full month
Omg literally so true
you replied to the wrong comment bro they arent talking about a stock market crash
@@shadowrundas here in 2020 all the cars are white, gray, and silver so he wasn’t wrong
Intro song? Please
I loved the two-tone color schemes and matching interiors, especially during the 70s. The faux wood trim on station wagons exterior side panels wasn’t that bad either.
I know this is hard for you to grasp but gravity pulls *STRAIGHT DOWN.* The falling upper floors collectively piled up adding more weight and mass, and caused a straight down progressive collapse as seen in the all the footage.
@@yearginclarke I know it's been 3 months but, Bruh I think you replied to the wrong comment.
Think it was done with Honda element Primer grey & different color .👎
For years (around 20), I've felt the dominance of black, white, and silver was because those were the colors the automakers predominantly produced, not because those were the preferred colors of the consumer. I'll stand by this opinion.
I, for one, prefer color. I've noticed a lot of nice colors on the new Chevy Blazer and the Jeep Renegade. I don't know how difficult it is to actually find one of those vehicles in a bright color, though.
not too difficult, i work at a chevy dealership and we have 2 or 3 bright red blazers but our lot is mostly dominated by navy, black, sliver, and white. the navy is kinda a funny story though, our new car manager really likes navy blue so he just keeps buying them lol
I special ordered my Jeep Renegade in the bikini metallic (turquoise) color that they had planned to only have available for a few months. But I think they kept the order window for it open longer because the demand for it was outpacing production. Either way, I love that I don't have trouble finding my car in parking lots. =D
I only buy second hand, and like colour, but because all the new cars are boring colours, I don't have much choice! My car is a grey with a hint of blue in it. I tried to get an ocean blue version, but the only one available was in bad condition, so grey it was! It's okay, but I'd much rather have a colourful car!
Jeep Rubicons also come in a ton of fun colors!
My car is white but not because that was my choice. It was the only one the dealer had on the lot in the trim that I wanted, so it was either that or nothing. This was during the height of the computer and car shortage during covid, so there wasn't much stock to pick from any dealer anywhere. Anyway, It does have a nice little red strip of paint running along the bottom under the doors for a bit of highlight at least, so it does have a little bit of a nice flair to it, however small it is.
'I think there might be a recession'
Corona: 'Interesting'
Haha yup or,
Corona: Hold my beer
@@kaipomedia5584 And that's how CoronaVirus Green got popular as a car color kids.
@@kaipomedia5584 More like "corona: hold me"
Clearly pre recorded
I came here to see this comment and like it lol
6:54 "Silver was the most popular car color 10 years in a row"
*shows white at first place*
"And then it was replaced by white"
*shows silver replacing the white*
ahahahahahhaa
Silver is hands down the most boring color to pick. No matter the car.
CyAn Mercedes MGP W01 🤷♂️
@@ericbarber3420 nope still boring to me haha
@@CyAn-S ...DMC 12 ?
I agree with your correlation of car colors and the general mood of the times. The current times are not like the confident and exuberant 60s and 80s. Take a look at new home and condo interiors, all neutrals: gray, white. black and maybe a little beige.
Most popular sneaker: White Adidas
Seriously so boring
I'm glad to see it's not just me thinking why today's cars have boring colors. I love that Plum crazy color!
Funfact: in the Middle East many cars are painted white as the sun isn’t as harsh on it and doesn’t fade it like black, it also means the car doesn’t get as hot inside when it’s sat in a car park.
that's a issue in south america as well, but people here prefer silver
that's florida too
Daniel Poole lol ok
same in south africa and namibia
Basic science my guy
No one :
Ford Lightning: hold meh beer
hahahha\
The ledgend the one
buh bruh rubrh
Nice one, Doug.
Hah. Classic Doug.
Another thing is that carmakers usually offer cooler colors, but only when you go up to the higher trim levels, so it isn't just the extra cost of the paint job. It's also the extra cost of going up to a trim level where the color you want is available. If you're buying a $30,000 car, and you want that cool shade of red, before you can even get that $2,000 paint option, you have to add the $3,000 trim package.
I think the colors are starting to get more lively. My car is a royal blue. And I’ve seen cars that were either orange or teal (a color that was common in the 1990s).
"Silver was the most popular car color..."
*shows white as number 1 and silver as 2*
"...till it was dethroned by white."
*silver and white change places so silver is number 1*
I was gonna say that
It was backwards
Ya, I caught that. Thought I was imagining things, so I ran it back. Nope. Was backward.
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@@Fit4C Amen.
Apple: *Uses White*
Car Industry: "We were using silver but white looks good let's use that."
Apple: *Uses Silver*
Now I'm seeing a resurgence of black
Bruh moment
Benjamin Covarrubias “space grey” 😂
that because it cost extra and shit resell... unless you plan to keep it forever....
Car industry: 😐
OMG! I've been saying this for a couple of years now. I said that if some people invented a drinking game based on the cars that drove by, the person drinking for silver cars would need to go to the hospital, white, black, and gray would all pass out, red and blue would each have a nice buzz and the person who literally had to drink for "every other color" could probably safely drive the others to the hospital and/or their homes.
i like multiple colors, like say red with white stripes, or light blue with black stripes, or yellow with a black lightning zigzag on the sides, or orange with white and black checker pattern on the rear, or faux wood trim on a station wagon, or an entire Bob Ross-style mural on the side of an RV
You also gotta take into consideration, although it is cheaper to paint a car white, it can also make it reflect heat radiation from the sun during the summer… thus making it cooler than a black car
conversely, a black car can absorb more heat in the winter making it warmer...
It also hides scratches more.
@@nubreed13 black cars look old and dirty after a short while. White doesnt
@@Kana0211 that too. Also black and gray/silver cars are harder to see at night.
@@Kana0211 white become yellow-ish after a while
"I"m thinking there may be a recession in the future"
2 days later: 3.2 million unemployment claims in the US
And not only in the US, mind you, due to the "virus" bullshit situation.
iAmDaos how is it bullshit and why did you put virus in quotes? You tryna say there is no virus??
Brian Waller No, because the US gov is using the virus to give tax breaks to wealthy corporations instead of helping the people who actually need it
I'm not in that demographic unfortunately
felipe guzman Families could receive money, $1200 per person plus an additional $500 per child. They’ve also raised unemployment checks to $600 a month for 4 months
A number of people I've talked to throughout my car buying research have mentioned that they like boring colors because they stand out less, especially to police.
Background matching. When everything looks the same, it becomes a metaphorical blur in the mind and it goes unnoticed. This is very useful in cars when wanting to avoid break-ins or carjackings along with excessive attention due to various media.
Nolan: there’s gonna eh a recession in the next couple years:
Coronavirus: _observe_
Coronavirus will pass, but if the talking heads convince enough dumb people that Trump, who took unprecedented measures to slow the virus, was somehow to blame for the virus...and we get Biden in office, then yeah an economic hiccup turns into full on recession.
Maybe the car manufacurers will offer those masks they are making in some cool color options. "Thats a nice shock green respirator!"
@@neuronaut8030 my guy we went all the way back to 2016 stock market dow closed at 18-19000 52 week high is 29000 we in the recession my guy
Neuronaut Trump did nothing beyond basic measures. Australia did more. Most of Europe did more. New Zealand and Taiwan did even more. And parts of China have been on maximum lockdown for a month.
Cough, Cough........Depression.
Spongebob: "in the future everything is chrome"
The future:
-"Where do you want the plastic?"
-"Yes"
hahaha
But then pickup trucks are now triangles. And say that geometric design is futuristic.
The Th!ink City had plastic body panels that came in all sorts of colors. The idea was that buyers could swap out the individual panels to make their own Harlequin. Sadly the Think brand never took off.
I feel we can only choose the few options available on the lot, unless you’re loaded and can afford to customize it from the manufacturer.
Great topic and info! Kept me interested to the very end!
Nolan: "Every car on the road is white, black or silver"
Me: *looks in the driveway my white truck, my black truck and my silver car*
My red car, my wife's red car, my red project car some idiot rattle-canned with plastidip before I acquired it....and the boring silver minivan. 3/4 ain't so bad, is it?
I still miss my Seafoam green Mazda truck.
this is why green Tacoma.
My driveway: 2 white trucks, 1 silver truck, 1 gray suv, 1 blue suv
Haha black bmw, vw and peugeot, silver toyota and white opel for me
This is simple. To most people cars are just appliances. White washing machine, stainless fridge, black can opener etc.
BANNED DAMN So sad. People just take cars for granted. 50 years ago, having a car as a teenager made you popular, now, no one cares
Also ive heard that white cars hide dirt and stuff better.
@@donkey7921 i dont know about dirt but of hides small dents and stuff better
@@gorillaman6827 arguable.... We've went so far downhill even before this virus. Nothing but spoiled crotch goblins that never work for anything. I won't take the easy route and blame the kids but rather the parents are the problem. Millenials got screwed by shitty parents that's why so many are fucking worthless.
Many manufacturers still offer things like brighter blues, yellows, or orange (at least in Europe). Audi also has some interesting green shades. But people still mostly just pick the grey, silver etc. colors because they say they love them and don't want to stand out.
nice video, I appreciate all of the editing and research you did. awesome!
A big part of it is those older car shapes and use of chrome lent themselves well to color. The new Beetle def lent itself well to COLOR!
My theory is that the car dealers believe it's easier to sell white, black, and silver so that's what they load their lots up with. From there, the whole "boring colors sell better" becomes a self fulfilling prophesy. I'm a Jeep Wrangler guy and even though Jeep offers some interesting cool colors, it's difficult to find the options I want in the color I want, so I either have to be willing to expand the geographic range of dealers I will buy from or consider special ordering. I think a lot of car buyers just settle for the boring colors the dealers have on the lot, rather than hassle with getting their first choice.
I think that you are absolutely right.
My current car is a weird sort of greige color. In low light it looks a little closer to a dull silver, and in bright light it's beige. I do not like the color and would not have chosen it myself because beiges and browns are my least favorite colors. I was trading a previous car that had reached the end of its useful life for an on-the-lot used car during the microchip shortage, so it was the only one there that met my criteria. However, I love everything else about my car- it had all of the options that I would have picked- and that's why I was willing to overlook the color. I would have preferred black or maybe silver if I was picking a different default color. My favorite color is actually red, but I usually don't go for red cars for the obvious reasons. I do have to say, though, that my greige car does do a good job of hiding dirt. Even in the winter with the road salts it looks less filthy than other people's white, black, and colored cars.
It's simpler than that. There just aren't that many people that give a damn about cars anymore. The number of car enthusiasts drops with each generation. Today's buyers are more concerned with the car's software. Engine, suspension, and color are afterthoughts now. Plus, a lot of people like black, white, and silver. :)
@@j.frankparnell3087hard to be a car entuziast when you aint a rich boomer, rly, everyone I know only has money for beaten up mid 2000s cars because the economy is so bad
"There will be another recession in the next few years"
Literally right after this was uploaded:
Corona: allow me to introduce myself
We have heard about the next crisis for 5 years now, corona was just the trigger, the situation was set up to go this way cause nothing was done after 2009 crisis.
We're just accumulating crisis.
@@TheMops14 in reality we havent recovered from 2008, and this is just another bullet to the economy. Anyone under 40 is pretty much screwed when it comes to planning a career. Corona now, in 10 years probably a war hopefully an asteroid...
@@hughjass2745 or the destruction of capitalism
*Ironic,History repeat itself*
@@rosestrohm7986 Well not the destruction of capitalism. Going too far in any direction is always bad be it capitalism, communism, or socialism. We should hope to see more integration of socialist and communist qualities into western nations to maintain a healthy balance.
Canada for example is a country with a near perfectly balanced economic system, enough inequality to drive competition, and enough safety nets and government charity to maintain a healthy living standard for less fortunate, unmotivated, or mentally ill people.
Years (decades?) ago, Road & Track ran an in depth article about why certain colors appear on cars. Entertaining article, but the bottom line was that the car designers looked to the fashion industry for clues as to which colors and tones were becoming the most fashionable. They looked most closely at the colors used for under garments on the run way models (hard research assignment I'd say). So, concisely, the color of the car offered to you today owes it origins to the panties modeled in Paris back in 2019.
Another reason to why White and Silver are popular colours is because those colours are the most heat reflective which help with overall comfort for drivers/passengers in hot weather.
Nah dude its all about money you honestly think car companies give two shits on whether your car gets hot if anything theyd want to get hot and be damaged it some way to milk more money out you
@@yes11889 I think he meant that's part of why people buy those colors. I specifically avoid anything dark, precisely because my father had a black Trans Am in the 80's, and it was an OVEN in the Florida sun. You couldn't even touch the steering wheel without gloves on.
I miss yellow cars
“Dethroned by white.” White goes to second place for some reason.
Seems about right
@@mulsanne1 Seems about white
@@gentrythibodeaux3375 that'll hold em alwhite
That bugged me too 😂
White goes to second place is no surprise.
Perhaps white paint is considered oppression in these times of madness we are living in.
Long ago I saw a documentary on television about trucks in india. They talked about how in india they treat their trucks like they were mansions because they cost as much and the trucks really look like very decorated lavish mansions on wheels rather than rented bland tools to move things. I like that approach, I want more of it everywhere, more people being creative and proud of their things and putting work and care into them.
Finally someone who appreciates Indian culture!
@willrivers1819i have a peach pink toyota previa with laminate wood floors and ceramic figurines + fake flowers velcro'd everywhere :333
I rather be not seen. That's why I don't modify my black cat.
Indian trucks do look gorgeous!
@@michaela2279 that sounds sooo beautiful
I noticed this at least 10 years ago, that 9 out of 10 new cars were white, black, or grey. A few dark blue, but almost no reds, greens, yellows, orange (except CalTrans trucks), or purples. I figured it was due to cost for color pigments. White paint just needs titanium dioxide or talc. Black is just carbon black, and you can make any share of grey by just adding varying amounts of carbon black to white paint. So the paint is a lot cheaper and the car manufacturers save $5 on each car by not offering the old range of colors.
White is so common cuz it’s used for fleet cats which are a significant section of the vehicle market . Also, you can put colorful signage on it to stand out . I wish dark plum was more common but apparently it’s a difficult color to do and doesn’t age well
6:54 'silver was the most popular...until it was dethroned by white' while the video has white being dethroned by silver
I was so confused by this
I'm so irritated that I caught on to this...they need to fix it!!🥺🤦♂️
@@brutishwing2.090 cannot be fixed, thank you CZcams
Too bad, their sticking with their Phillipino post production, who mostly drive yellow/orangish cars.
Yall all missed the joke. Ya grouches
"Before it was dethroned by white"
*proceeds to make animation of silver moving to first and white to second*
Buhscuse me?
Gonna call that a mistake in editing/production.
Everything is always dethroned by something that's white
@@zk0rned oooo baby you are a cheeky bastard and that was a cheeky joke mate!
@@AJ-vs3yz Even Hitler was dethroned by someone that's white
Im now using buhscuse me
First video I watch and I loved it! Your personality makes it so fun to watch and to know history! Keep it up Nolan!
I just bought a used 2021 car in yellow. It stayed on the lot for a long time, particularly because of the colour. Yellow happens to be my favourite colour, so I was happy to take it off their hands.
Honda is pushing blue, Mazda is pushing their soul red. I'm glad some companies are making an effort to bring some colour into the Industry, be it for profit or not
Nick Rajaie nissan is pushing their orange
Yeah I just realized that my parents’ Honda Accord is blue
@Miss Yancey same love my dark red accord
True, it's nice to see a diversity of colored of cars than your typical gray scale.
No subaru is blue
"Lamborghinis are yellow! Ferraris are red!"
…..and Subies are blue.
and chevy are yellow
Mclarens are orange-brown!
fun fact:ferraris color was origanally yellow
ford gt are blue
Benzes are silver
One of the most popular colors that I have seen in recent years is Dodge's destroyer grey and when Scion still existed they had cement grey. I'm still scratching my head to understand why, but at least this video does shed some light on it.
I wanted to watch this video when it came out and didn’t know about the watch later option and OMG IT FINALLY MADE IT BACK TO MY FEED YAY
car companies: *produce cars with boring colors*
wrap shops: _its free real estate_
Yeah, just going to a wrap shop is even cheaper than getting a paint job from the dealership too
Yeah but wraps arnt long term, for my white challenger i have painter lime green stripes.
I've gotten so many cars in my wrap shop with paper plates it's great lol
Cybertruck: Paint? Nah, I'm good.
Did you add that profile picture or was it the default google+ profile picture?
@@zavier3644 I intentionally didn't change it.
Anything sufficiently old becomes fashionable.
Same thing about DeLorean
well a certain green might give it a certain halo vibe :)
Cubertruck in a Mango Orange and matte black would be nice
Moved to California and bought a Tacoma in Indigo ink. Beautiful color, faded and peeled after 5 years parking it at work in the sun.
It's white only now, for as long as I live in the sunny west.
White and Silver are very popular because they are most forgiving to people who don't like to clean their cars every day. They hide scratches.
White and Black are also easy to color match. In case a single panel needs to be repainted.
Many countries Cabs are either white or black with some silver cars.
And like you mentioned these three colors command best resale values.
Personally I hate white cars, they look very boring and turn yellowish after few years. I personally prefer Black but they are a headache to maintain, a spec of dust or a scratch becomes easily visible.
10:50 That awkward moment when you realize the video was written/filmed at least a month or so ago.
yea like 90% of youtube videos 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️ get a clue lmfaooooooooooo
more like 3 years ago, with the exception of this covid-19 shit hitting the fan for the market, things were going great (data wise, even though the fear merchants kept screaming we were going to crash randomly any moment for years). Depending on what economic bills get passed (if congress will get off their ass and sign shit instead of holding the economy hostage for policy reasons, aka I'm looking at you schumer) we could see a 18-24mo turn around on this stupid pandemic that fucking "winnie-the-flu" hid and of consequence unleashed on the world.
qqqqqq724 how old are you
I miss two years ago.
"Might be a recession in a few years."
Hold my Corona
Oh you rebel
DONT TOUCH ME!!
Your Toyota Corona?
I wonder how awkward it is going to a store right now and asking if they sell corona. You'd probably end up in jail.
@@xFlared "yo you guys got corona in here? I want some"
Detroit used to offer a killion colors spread out over a gillion models supplied to them by a jillion jobbers. And each manufacturer had their specific company colors specific to their brands all except black. In modern times there's a few hundred colors that ALL manufacturers use, so about 99% of the variety availablity is gone. However discontinuing availabity on puke green and rasberry interior colors...is a good thing
I remember when I had to pick out my first company car. Right before that I was in the glass elevator on the outside of the building, on the side of the parking lot.
It was one grey mass of grey, white and black cars, with 1 bright red car sticking out.
I decided then "That's what I want, I want a car I can spot from miles away too!"
So I did. The first one was light (But deep) blue, the current one is Yellow and the next one will be turquoise.
Never a boring colour again for me thank you.
Resale values were not influence in the slightest by the colours, as there are plenty of people that will seek out the non boring options.
I want an orange car, but it has to be the perfect orange.
Trump spray than orange? It would be topical.
Yeah, I just commented about the wildly popular orange Subarus. Ugh, I want one too.
but you are watermelonlover
I want a yellow 76 camaro, but got to be the perfect yellow, none of that dull shit
McLaren Orange is just so perfect
There's more going on. Home interior colors have disappeared.
that's just a standard for new homes, you can still get different colours from a hardware store.
I've been house hunting. One thing I just realized is that I never save homes that consist entirely of 5 flat sheetrock faces and white floor.
I think what I really hate about it is that they always take the effort to drop in a granite counter to "increase appeal" just before selling. At least with the walls there is a blank canvas, but imo you really should not customize something before selling it. I don't want to pay extra for a kitchen counter I could have decided whether or not to install myself. Honestly, I'd like to see more butcher block.
I hate sterile future chic. It isn't stylish to me, it's an aesthetic that evokes a sense of (for lack of a better word) oppressiveness. I don't want to feel like I am living in my office cubicle surrounded by 3 gray sides with a gray floor and whitewash walls.
@@Ghorda9 I'm aware of that. Are you saying that home interiors are as colorful now as they were ten years ago or are you taking issue with my liberal use of "disappear"?
kitchens only come in stainless steel.
@mssheltn1 same with commercials and tv shows. I painted my teen daughter's room gray; she said it's the only color for teen rooms.
One issue is the car manufacturers have limited available colors to just a very limited number - usually less than 7-8. Then on top of that certain colors are limited to the higher trim levels. On top of that, manufacturers charge extra unless you order white, black or gray - and it cost $650 to $3,000 to get the nicer color.
This dude is my favorite Donut host. He just held on tight and now he’s the main man!
Car colors are so ugly now. I just want a pastel colored car like the ones in the 50s & 60s😪
The tan Tacoma’s and tundras are beautiful
Chevy has pastel colors on their Spark models.
That's a sleeping emoji and not a crying one....
Ahh.. why can people get this right? 😢 (yeah, I'm crying)
@@gentrythibodeaux3375 who wants a Chevy Spark though
Well, can you buy one?
As a car enthusiast, it's sad for me when I see a sports car painted in a boring silver.
Could be ready for another cannonball run
The Delorean says screw your enthusiasm.
@@SinnerD2010 Directed by Robert L Weide
Sports cars should be fast, noisy and lurid colours
@@SinnerD2010 The Delorean doesn't count because its not actually painted silver :)
OMFG! You are my new hero in more ways than one!!! First off, YES to purple being your car color of choice!! I owned a plum purple '94 Ford Thunderbird. It was beautiful. What about the glitter-painted boats of the 70's? Royal purple with huge embedded glitter chunks. Second...I have been asking why there are so many white cars myself. I even considered using a clipboard and recording the ratio of white cars to all others. I asked many of my friends about this and was always rebuffed for the absurdity of my thoughts. I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one who considered this to be a thing of interest.
This is a great video about a topic that often had me wondering. I miss the wild paint schemes of the 1980s and the vans of the 1970s.
The cars that carried silver best were the German cars, especially Mercedes Benz. Nobody ever did silver like MB.
Also, while yeah, Apple was a factor in popularizing white, I wouldn’t call the Apple of the 2010s a startup. It was a startup in the 1970s.
Finally, the bright colors work best on small cars. Big cars sporting bright colors look a bit garish and overdone, they need some subtlety. Small cars are a bit more toy-like and need bright colors to have presence. A few decades ago, my Dad used to drive a small car that was painted beige. You couldn’t find a more boring-looking car. Then one day he got it painted electric blue, and that thing popped!
“It comes in titanium, carbon fibre, and aluminium”
In a video about dull colours
Dont forget space grey, graphite, and pearl white.
*Fiber
HiIt'syellowjelofellowyt shut up american
@@EpicenterEvents i could correct you saying "włókno" which is the polish word for "fibre" but that would be dumb like correcting "fibre" for "fiber"
@@EpicenterEvents unless you are English, and speak English.
Car colors then:
*H A P P Y N O I S E S*
car colors now:
“All around me are familiar faces...”
comedy
xem1d
WeLcOmE tO pLaNeT cOmEdY
pOpUlAtIoN: mE
@@spaghetticoconut658 reddit moment
xem1d
Pretty much
All around me are familiar painted cars riiiip
I kinda miss those colors, too, but my cousin painted his Mustang Mach 1 gloss black and removed all the Mach 1 markings and it looks incredible.
I work at paint shop that coats Auto, Industrial, and Agricultural equipment and supplies and there’s been paints/coatings we can’t even get anymore.
"car colors tend to be related to the economy and society"
2020: hope you like black
Black is the absent of color; therefore, not a color.😄
Why have black when you can ventablack?
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I thought of green tho, u know ppe kits and all !!
You'd think this would be true but I'm seeing companies offer brighter colors. Ford with Grabber lime, Orange Fury, Velocity Blue, Lincoln is offering Green gem on Navigators aswell as burgundy velvet and some pretty blues. I hope actually colors make a comeback that's for sure
XD
"Coming from a guy who drives a black car"
"Laughs in Henry Ford"
blane color are good for resell.... plus other color cost extra....
He drives a ford too. Coincidence ?
The model t was available in a variety of colors for most of its production run
Pros and cons of black car:
+ looks good
- only when sparkling clean and that is up to 15 mins after washing the car ffs...
@@michalhandzus20 When you drive a black car it is easier to get customers for the oregano & icing sugar that you sell in those small zip bags that people like.....:-D
My mini-suv is high-vis orange with black trim (with black or red lettering/logos stickers outlined in white to identify it). I work Search and Rescue with my detection dogs, and mostly I'm called to do wilderness search, so you can see that puppy in a mountainous forest from a helicopter, no problem. You can also see it on foot through the trees, and telling my dogs to load up in scent-baffling weather conditions without my assistance is no problem, since it's very visually distinctive among a bunch of other vehicles or alone out in the middle of nowhere.
It also makes it really easy to find from a distance in the parking lot. Way more helpful than you'd think!
I actually got mine used in that colour. I just had to modify the interior to suit my dogs' needs and add the K9 SAR and Red Cross stickers to the body.
I can confirm that the Ford Fiesta is a fun and colorful hatchback that draw even more attention when modified
Everybody knows that *red cars* are faster...
🤣
+10HP, and with racing stripes it adds even more
Yeah I get pulled over by cops a lot easier. Actually it's a true fact to story because where I see red cars (better known as ricers) I see them get speeding tickets, pull over by cops, and speed all the time. there's just something about that red color they like to use as a speeding atmosphere.
DAT'S ROIT, RED WUNS DO GO FASTA!
Axonn or just dont speed in town. Really doesn't get you much further faster when lights come into play
Nolan: statisticians say there's gonna be another recession in the next few years
Corona virus: hold meh beer
I live in the desert, it hit 103 yesterday. Its the triple digits from here till fall. I buy white and silver cars for the heat reflecting capacity.
I've instantly fell in love with that 1930's light blue metallic, and I don't even drive😅
Nolan: "Im predicting another recession in the near future"
2022: Hold my beer
2023: hold my blunt too
supercars: hold my bitches
Literally going into one in a week 😂
Exactly.
This is my 2nd "once in a lifetime recession", and I'm only 18! By the time I die, if trends continue, I'll have lived through 6 lifetimes.
"There may be a recession"
COVID: Your wish is my command
I wish COVID would go away
it doesn't age well
Thanks CCP! 😒
451asians Nolan u were right!!!
When he said “we haven’t bounced back from the 2008 recession yet” this immediately came to mind. 2020 recession here we come!! 😭
Couldn't agree more! I am very happy with my volcano red option on my C5 Aircross but all the other colours in the range were boring greys or desaturated blue hues.
It's funny cos I noticed this a week ago after walking past the same dealership. The only other colour they had appart from the conforming colours was dark blue.
Green was always my favorite car color. Everybody offered it on every car. Then around 2005 it just seemed to completely disappear from every company's color palette and for the most part it still remains that way now.
I bought one of Hyundai's new Palisades back in December in "Rainforest" green. The color was one of big things that helped me choose that model over the others I was looking at.
The sad thing is that its not even really that green. Its like a grey with green tint and you can only really see the color in direct sunlight. It is very tragic.
My mini is in British racing green. It just seemed a natural choice.
Yesss!!! It was mine too!!! It's the only reason I want to buy the new bullet mustang, even though it only comes standard.
@@JACCO20082012 What a Travesty Dude!
Yeah I had a '76 Monte Carlo in their green. Most killer car ever. Now if someone asks "yeah? What color was it?" and I tell them green, they look like I'm describing some sort of clown car.
Part of the reason white and silver/gray are so popular at least where I live where it snows is that those colors hide dirt, dust, and especially salt residue better than darker colors.
I like the magenta/pink Mitsubishi Mirage, they catch my attention every time I see one. Ford BA Falcon had some good colours too. Lime green, orange, purple.
Most fish isn’t sold with the skin, so it actually seems like an incredibly innovative use of something that would otherwise be garbage
Who doesn't eat the skin lol
Weeeell, that was a long time ago and I don't think supermarket freezers were very commom
@@chikengas4052 what does that have to do with anything? Even if that was true, that has nothing to do with anything.
@@itachi1145 some places don't have the luxury of freezers and sometimes maybe back in the day ( I might be wrong here ) they didn't remove the skin in grocery stores, which we find today, but maybe not back then
@@chikengas4052 in the time you’re referring to they used a massive amount of salt. The skin wasn’t necessary for preserving it, though I’m sure it didn’t necessarily get cleaned off properly. I just don’t understand though how that would invalidate what I said, regardless of who’s correct.
There’s an even worse phenomenon happening now. A whole slew of models are coming out that look like the factory skipped the colour all together and applied the clear over the primer
Candy apple gray
We call them Filing Cabinet colors.
The duct tape colors…
Looks like it came from a plastic model put together by a 10 year old, straight plastic!!
Nardo Grey ? XD
What's funny is I've been driving a silver 1999 F-150, and I just bought a white Corolla. Fits pretty well with the trends! I got white because it's really freaking hot here, I could save money on gas by not having to run the A/C as hard
The purples have been really nice in the past few years: Plum Crazy, Merlin Purple, Thundernight Metallic Purple (my favorite by far)
“Weird colors lowers resale”
*laughs in Subaru Sonic Yellow*
I was about to post.. I want another Sonic Yellow Wagon!
Still looking for a wrap that looks enough like sonic yellow for my STi
That must look sick
*Cries in lime green Camaro*
@@user-njyzcip Virus
Nolan: All the cars lately are just black, white or silver.
TheStradman: Hold my purple wrap!
Had my dad's '97 Chevrolet K-1500 in Emerald Metallic Green for a bit. Not especially bright or flashy, but managed to stand out just enough. Which was convenient, because that truck is older than me, so I never had a working key fob and couldn't hit the lock button to find it in a parking lot.
My Father's 1960 Buick Invicta, was a
red convertible with a white roof, and
red and white interior. My used first
car was a1957 Chevrolet, in gold with
beige roof, and my new 1969 Ford
Torino was light yellow with a black
stripe, and a fake hood scoop. I had
a black 2001 Camaro, not Z28, and
now almost 5 years, a Jeep Renegade
in Blue.
Yes I have noticed the lack of variety of
car colors in recent years in recent
years, I have heard they have a better
resale value too, as a main reason for
this for the most part, sadly, I hate it.😢
When I was a little kid my dad had that plum crazy car and to this day we've always referred to it as "the purple car."
Shoulda called it “speedy grape*
Screw Apple and its forgettable trends. Colored cars are where it's at. Car companies should focus less on stupid trends that people will literally forget and more on variety to have something for everyone.
The purple guy
(FNAF SOUNDS INTESIFIED)
😂😂😂😂😂
The car behind the slaughter
I had a purple turd
Henry ford: I see a red car and I want it painted black no colors anymore I want them to turn blaack.
soundtrack from lucifer
@@sebastian79327 Chyba z twojej matki. To utwór Stones-ów.
@@sebastian79327 You mean Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones?
Can't believe Henry ford was emo
Make my world go blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack
I really like plum crazy! I'd add some rainbow gloss at the car's sides, would be cool. Makes me wanna play Need4speed again =D
I had a plum crazy 73 Dart Swinger and it was magnificent.
when he brought up his body hair i thought it was about to be a manscaped comercial
Fr same 🤣
"Why Car Colors Are Boring Now"
Depression happened
@B It's just a colour, chill.
@@ConfusionPlus2 No, black, white and silver/grey are NOT colours.
@@ConfusionPlus2 yep, a color, a very very dull color. Imagine thinking a car color doesn't matter
@Varallio Wtf no. It's like saying im racist cause im white.
Congratulations on having the dumbest comment on the thread 👏🏻
My Focus ST is Tangerine Scream (school bus yellow). Which is awkward at funerals. But people see you on the highway.
Using herring scales wasn’t wasteful. If anything it was extremely useful to a part of the fish that is usually thrown out