When’s the last time you saw a car other than red, black, blue, gray, or white on the road?
Like, what happened to all the pinks, purples, oranges, yellows, and greens I remember from the 90s?
Today, because my car is green 😝
I actually hate the attention it gets, but I’m poor and it was cheap. Never seems like a good idea to me if other drivers can easily remember you. On the other hand, I can always find it in a big parking lot.
I saw a green one the other day too
Every day. But I’m living in one of the most show off cities in the US. There is no day without spotting a 200k+ car.
Wraps, plasti-dips are really really common. And actually doing a full paint job is relatively cheap alsoSame but im also in a VERY car centric city. They dont always look good here haha.
Nope h the question of “why would they pay for that?” Comes often to my mind.
I just saw a pearl white wrapped tesla. It had a very very light pink sheen to it, it was basically 99% white…Thats funny. and terrible design haha.
It’s funny, because I just made a comment about this in another thread.
There the OP was asking if people today are less ‘vibrant’ than they were a few years ago.
Not only are cars getting duller, the streets are losing vibrancy.
The best street performers of the past are now online. You used to happen upon a great comic or musician at random, playing in a park or mall.
Vibrant pigments usually rely on heavy metals. Lead was common in Red and green paints, arsenic was in greens and chromium was in blue. When they were replaced with organic pigments. They either lost their vibrancy or degraded and faded very quickly.
Also, paint is spread very thinly on cars compared to in the old days. This is partially due to higher quality steel, partially due to more plastic panels and mainly due to weight and cost reduction. This means that doing a cut-and-polish to liven up faded paintwork is liable to expose undercoat.
One economic reason I heard is that bright colors make used cars harder to sell.
It’s better to play it safe with a neutral color than risk being stuck with a bright yellow or pink car no one else thinks is pretty.
My niece just traded her burgundy Alfa Romeo Giulietta for her brand new Geely EX2.
She did want the dusty pink one (she is a 19 year old girl who works very hard and purchased her cars herself), but decided on the mint green one because it would have better resale value. They also have a tan one, but the boring grey one is the hottest seller!
Yellow is far more common than red, I see green occasionally
Probably at a racetrack a year or so ago, but out on the street? No idea. Even reds are getting kinda rare. It’s supremely boring.
I remember so many colors on the road. Greens. Oranges. Pinks. Navy. Teal. Yellows. All manner and shade of purple. Now it’s just. . . Bleh.
My aunt earned a Mary Kay pink Cadillac, and we were all so proud of her. I think people would crap themselves if they saw a pink car on the road nowadays.
It’s like the world doesn’t have a soul anymore.
According to KBB, green is making a comeback.
https://www.kbb.com/car-advice/what-are-the-best-car-colors-to-buy/
Two days ago. It was a gross dehydrated piss yellow pickup truck
metallic green, about a week ago
I saw a vintage burnt orange Oldsmobile yesterday, but not on the street
Saw a yellow sports car on Saturday. My wife has a bright green Fiesta.
There’s an orange Subaru at my work, along with a couple of baby-blue Broncos with white tops. Those broncos are pretty stylish, tbh.
Cars have gotten so bland and boring, like new construction homes. Just plain, boring, and more expensive than ever.
I saw yellow today, and I see them often enough to make a little game out of it.
I see a couple yellow cars every day. There’s a lime one and a dark purple one in my neighborhood. Also, a black one with pink accents and eyelashes over the headlights. Still, the weirdest one I’ve seen recently was an iridescent pink with a yellow sheen.
Most car dealerships only stock black, white, silver or grey.
I walked into our showroom the other day and it was very reminiscent of Henry Fords “any colour, as long as it’s black”. There were also two silver cars and one dark blue car hidden in the back, as if it was ashamed of itself.
I drive a tan car. My niece drives a mint green car. There are two jungle green Zeekr’s in our street but every single other car is monochrome.
I was just talking about the number of cars that seem to be garden utensil green / brown these days.
My partner and I drive a bright green Chevy Bolt EV (“Shock” is the official name of the color) and we love the smiles we sometimes get.
what happened to all pinks, purples, oranges, yellows and greens I remember from the 90s.
Well they weren’t as common as you think they were. They are still around.
Watch some old movies and look at the traffic in the background.
edit = The cars you see are much more colorful than the ones you’ll see today.
I don’t need to see old movies. I have been around since the 1960s… this is just more memoryberry horseshit.
Cars were no more colorful then than they are now.
First image I found when I searched ‘1970 parking lot.’
2026 Dodger parking lot.
