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Colour, a moving taste violation
« on: 20 February 2007, 22:06:34 »
Seriously, just now and again you see a car that makes you seriously wonder what the original purchaser was taking ,

like, ,HOW on earth they persuaded themselves that metallic neon snot green with pink trim was a good idea.....

but thinking about it, i came to also think about the less extreme , but nonetheless aesthetically abhorrent options that many have voluntarily chosen over the years.

the kind of Champagne Gold you see a number of cars in..

Why?/ it looks utterly pants.....  on ANYTHING......   Even Marantz stopped making Hifi in that colour DECADES ago....

so why order it on a car?

other such travesties, such as ANY metallic Pink, or indeed, any Shade of Pink.....   or Orange.... the last decent looking Orange I recall was a Mk2 Rs2000 \ and that was only coz there weren't any white, black or red ones available....

What colours make you wonder if the owner is registered blind?




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Re: Colour, a moving taste violation
« Reply #1 on: 20 February 2007, 22:14:02 »
That weird beige/pink colour that you see VW Polos in....the one that looks like its been painted in wood primer....

Also.....crash test yellow.....I want to get some black circles to stick on the side of them in car parks....
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Re: Colour, a moving taste violation
« Reply #2 on: 20 February 2007, 22:22:15 »
Whats wrong with Orange then

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Re: Colour, a moving taste violation
« Reply #3 on: 20 February 2007, 22:25:24 »
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Whats wrong with Orange then
Just saw a Triumph on Life On Mars, it's kept in Corley, saw it in the flesh (so to speak) last summer.
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Re: Colour, a moving taste violation
« Reply #4 on: 21 February 2007, 00:07:24 »
yeah, but the Dolly Sprint is same kind of era and class as the Rs2000 was  , probably the same Orange as well ;)

(My Dolly Sprint was Yellow.....  and would probably have benefited from some of Mark's little black circles.... utterly utterly shagged it was....)

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Re: Colour, a moving taste violation
« Reply #5 on: 21 February 2007, 00:20:15 »
There's a particularly nasty shade of green that Citroen do, there's also a sort of "salmon" colour I see around and who could forget this?

http://vwpassatgolf.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/polo1_3.jpg   :o
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Re: Colour, a moving taste violation
« Reply #6 on: 21 February 2007, 01:24:50 »
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There's a particularly nasty shade of green that Citroen do, there's also a sort of "salmon" colour I see around and who could forget this?

http://vwpassatgolf.cocolog-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/polo1_3.jpg   :o

How is this car described on the V5 then...?  :o

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Re: Colour, a moving taste violation
« Reply #7 on: 21 February 2007, 07:51:27 »
keep seeing a lovely yellow car about- its an exact replica of del boys 3 wheeler !!
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Re: Colour, a moving taste violation
« Reply #8 on: 21 February 2007, 07:58:23 »
Is it my tablets or does anyone else think that Dolmite sprint front end looks like a BMW?


....oh, it is the tablets then. :(
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Re: Colour, a moving taste violation
« Reply #9 on: 21 February 2007, 08:31:22 »
VW managed the best colour ever imo

acheived with the lowly polo.......Harlequin!





Always puts a grin on my face when I see one out and about
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Re: Colour, a moving taste violation
« Reply #10 on: 21 February 2007, 09:44:00 »
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yeah, but the Dolly Sprint is same kind of era and class as the Rs2000 was  , probably the same Orange as well

Ahh, those were the days. You could have any colour you like. As long as it was dayglo orange, cack brown, baby puke green,...

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Re: Colour, a moving taste violation
« Reply #11 on: 21 February 2007, 11:29:29 »
The one that gets me every time is the abhorrent beige you used to get Montegos and Maestros in. I always thought, " Someone actually bought that new!!!"
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Re: Colour, a moving taste violation
« Reply #12 on: 21 February 2007, 12:51:13 »
From my front room i can see a metallic green Micra that is just awful////  it's a kind of loud lime green metallic...

it's on the forecourt of the used car sales place over the road, and seriously, I reckon they'll have trouble even giving it away....

I mean, what are the odds that a second person would voluntarily choose to own a car that colour?


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Re: Colour, a moving taste violation
« Reply #13 on: 21 February 2007, 14:39:15 »
White...now who would actually buy a new, white car?
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Re: Colour, a moving taste violation
« Reply #14 on: 21 February 2007, 14:45:49 »
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White...now who would actually buy a new, white car?

The police?
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