Black, grey cars, etc...

ChrisHeathcote said:
I view it slightly different. I would never pay outright for a car, because, why plough your hard earned cash into something that was guaranteed to lose money. The way I view it is that I can afford to save x pounds a month , so my savings stays my savings earning interest and the xx pounds a month pays for the car. If the car value drops like a stone, not my problem, my savings are still intact. But then again I am biased on these things ;)
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Never thought of it that way.
I am thinking of getting another car soon but I don't think I will be getting another new one (last new car was an Audi TT back in 2002 & it was red).
Thinking of going German again but 2-3 years old.
 
On a side note regarding cars & colour.
Who is designing them & more importantly who is purchasing some of them?
Some cars just look completely wrong in any colour :oops: :$
 
in scotland everyonr seems to ave a new car from arnold clarke
 
I washed my black car today and know - black does look good when clean no doubt about it :D
 
I have never owned and never will own a RED car of any description !!!!!
 
Intriguing :)

I think I am missing something as I can't see everything on the forum as I only have my phone.
But I will guess you train bulls for bull fighting & you don't like them seeing red o_O
 
Ok ...................... a clue.............................. who do most of the red vans you see belong to ? :)
 
As long as you don't go with pillar box red its all good. lol
 
rjbell said:
I always wanted the gt4 in this shape.first gen celica is my favourite though. I love old jap sports cars. I used to have a VTEC dohc crx.
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Can't beat Jap sports cars, I've had most of the low end ones - Almera GTi, (another rare none bodykit one), the 3 Celicas, Civic coupe (not really a sporty one but it was fun!) Eunos Roadster mk1 and now on an incredibly rare Mitsubishi FTO GP Version R Aero edition. There's and ST185 for sale in town I really want to buy but it would need a little work doing and I can't justify a 2nd car. I think the next car is likely to be an Integra type R or an RX7, depending how good at saving I can be!
 
Alan Clogwyn said:
Can't beat Jap sports cars, I've had most of the low end ones - Almera GTi, (another rare none bodykit one), the 3 Celicas, Civic coupe (not really a sporty one but it was fun!) Eunos Roadster mk1 and now on an incredibly rare Mitsubishi FTO GP Version R Aero edition. There's and ST185 for sale in town I really want to buy but it would need a little work doing and I can't justify a 2nd car. I think the next car is likely to be an Integra type R or an RX7, depending how good at saving I can be!
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It was a toss up between the FTO and the CRX but being able to take the roof of won it for me in the end. My brother has a 350z which is a lot of car for your money.

I really fancy going Japanese 70's with a first generation celica, Mitsubishi Galant Coupe or first generation skyline. Something on them lines anyway.
 
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ST4 said:
I had a black car, two actually. Looked great when clean but in the summer were a pain. My present cars dark grey and wished it was silver, it absorbs a lot of heat
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Mine could be suitable for growing tomatoes in the summer. Having black leather interior makes it so much worse. I hate it. Come winter it might get some needed warmth as long as there is sun where I park it. Red, silver or white next. X5 will look stunning in either. In fact it will look even bigger if white.
 
Cobra said:
I can't do that, ( must be an age thing) especially when cars these days cost more than my house did ;)
( one mortgage was enough)
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I suppose it depends on how long you intend keeping the car. If you plan on changing it every year, buying it outright is pointless. Get the right PCP and all it will cost you is the natural depreciation of the value of the car, just chop it in for a new model.
 
Pookeyhead said:
Bring back the 70s, when cars came in colours!

As for the parking thing... swallow your egos, and buy a really crap car for the weekly grind. I don't care who opens a door onto my Micra... in fact, I sometimes just let the door open until the wall at the side of my driveways stops it any way. Sure.. people look at me driving it and may think, who's this loser dressed like a tramp, driving a 12 year old dented old person's shopping trolley.... but I don't give a ****. The fact is.. it works. My other car is approaching 10 years old now, and without a word of a lie, it looks utterly identical to how it looked when it was brand new. In fact, that's not true: The "next track" button on the head unit is slightly more shiny than the other buttons. :)
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I have no problem parking at the far reaches of a supermarket car park (Wife usually moans though ;) ). No one else seems to park remotely near me whilst I'm away from the car and I always choose a space with a hatched dead area next to it, so I park partly on that. If someone does park near me, they will be someone who also cares about their car and will take advantage of the space I have left knowing their chance of damage is less also.

As for a return to the 70's my current car, in Race Red, is as close today as you can get to Signal Red or Sunburst Red that Ford used in the 70's.
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nilagin said:
I suppose it depends on how long you intend keeping the car.
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I've had my present one for about 6 years and counting ;)
But I guess with the lease hire thing, its all part of today's throw away society
 
Pookeyhead said:
Most people actually can. If anyone can't, then they'll probably not be taking my advice. No big deal. Why you making such a fuss about it? Seems they can have cars they care enough about to moan about the scratches they're getting in car parks though, so can't be as poor as you're suggesting. LOL
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I very much doubt it would be "Most people". My previous car was 3yrs old when I bought it and 7yrs old when I chopped it in, I still cared about it and preferred to keep it scratch and dent free, the car I had before that was 4yrs old when I bought it and 12yrs old when I sold it and it was treated with exactly the same care. I'm "fortunate" that I can afford to run an older car as well, but chose not to based purely on the lack of parking space.
 
nilagin said:
I'm "fortunate" that I can afford to run an older car as well, but chose not to based purely on the lack of parking space.
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And that of course is another huge consideration these days,
most if not all the drives here are capable of holding 2 cars comfortably.
But as the kids have grown they mostly have cars of their own, years ago, seeing a car parked in the road outside a house was a rarity ( here at least) now its a bloody slalom,
with people parking on blind bends, double parking etc etc :(

And the government are wondering why people are turning their front lawns in to concrete or brick jungles.
 
Cobra said:
I've had my present one for about 6 years and counting ;)
But I guess with the lease hire thing, its all part of today's throw away society
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Lots of manufacturers offer extra discount if you take out finance anything from a few hundred quid on a small cheap car up to a couple of grand or more on larger cars . Of course you can settle this the following month and save on the interest payments if you wish.
 
Cobra said:
And that of course is another huge consideration these days,
most if not all the drives here are capable of holding 2 cars comfortably.
But as the kids have grown they mostly have cars of their own, years ago, seeing a car parked in the road outside a house was a rarity ( here at least) now its a bloody slalom,
with people parking on blind bends, double parking etc etc :(

And the government are wondering why people are turning their front lawns in to concrete or brick jungles.
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I don't have a drive way so have we have to park in the road. What really p's me off is neighbours who do have a drive yet don't use it and also park in the road.
 
nilagin said:
Lots of manufacturers offer extra discount if you take out finance anything from a few hundred quid on a small cheap car up to a couple of grand or more on larger cars . Of course you can settle this the following month and save on the interest payments if you wish.
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I didn't know that TBH although I can't afford the sort of cars I like to drive, new, ;)



nilagin said:
What really p's me off is neighbours who do have a drive yet don't use it and also park in the road.
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There are also a few here that do that also. ( although they do have a drive)
I guess its to stop other people parking in front of their house ! (?)
 
Cobra said:
I didn't know that TBH although I can't afford the sort of cars I like to drive, new, ;)




There are also a few here that do that also. ( although they do have a drive)
I guess its to stop other people parking in front of their house ! (?)
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Complete opposite, they park in front of mine instead. There's only room to park on one side of the road so parking space is rare anyway. It's bad enough with another neighbour always parking her car in the middle of two spaces taking up a gap without the ones not using their drive.
 
nilagin said:
Complete opposite, they park in front of mine instead.
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I meant here, but yes I can see how that would p*** you right off :(
 
I had a couple of "condom" cars, both Estates, one Red one, one White one
 
I was not going to reply to this thread, because I can see the beauty in some dark cars - super gloss black, metallic graphite, lacquered carbon fibre

BUT!

Today - my wife pointed it out to me (she must be getting interested in cars at last, after 25 years), there in the Bluewater car park, was an 05 registered BMW M5 with a matt black paint job - :eek:
It had nice alloys with good tyres, but the paint job - :crying:
The owner had sprayed it in matt black (sorry to mention it a second time but) and he had sprayed over the rear light clusters, and there were paint runs over the boot lid and the rear panel.
It was possibly the worst RUINATION of a decent car I have ever seen, and that includes my first effort at spraying a Triumph Dolomite in 1981.
We didn't stop to inspect it, because the two people returned and then drove off, and there was just a very tiny brake light indication before they left the car park.(n)
 
It's only a BMW. And an attempted boy racer version too. They attract such dimwits. Let it die. It'll soon have stick on spoilers soon too.
 
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piggin said:
As long as you don't go with pillar box red its all good. lol
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We've had so much difficulty getting red vans in the last 10 years, we've had to change our livery and go white :(
You can get them but you have to order them months in advance, which seems complete b******s for a bog standard ordinary red van, you can have a white one tomorrow but red....nope.
I always thought it was because the PO pinched them all but I dunno.
 
I like he deep shine in a nice clean black metallic car. However I've only once owned one and it was a pig not just to keep clean, but also from not showing swirls. Never again.

Generally I prefer lighter metallics. My favourite was my old Saab in Amethyst. It was stunning when the sun shone on it, and very different and distinguished in the shade.
 
ianp5a said:
Does that mean that the one guy doing the fleet buying likes black cars? Or did someone tell him the resell value is better because people only want black cars?
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Currently the e class mercedes come black as the standard "free" colour, then a premium depending on choice....think this has been for a while now and suspect it to be same for other marques, so yeah the fleet buyer likes black ;)
 
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