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.

kbb.com/…/what-are-the-best-car-colors-to-buy/

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 also

Same 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.

Today

Right now. One of the nehgbours has a green van.

Lets see.

Green just tonight. Had a weird light kit, so I triple looked

Before that, last I was out of the house was… Friday? Thursday? Anyway, a yellow mustang was in the line at the drugstore.

Haven’t seen purple in ages. Orange? I wanna say a few months ago. Old vw beetle.

Pink? Last time I saw that was maybe ten, fifteen years ago. Somewhere in that range. It stuck in memory because it was a lifted pickup.

That’s on the road though. As in I was out driving and they were either doing the same, parked at a business or home, or at a car sales place. I don’t think car shows count, otherwise I would say I’ve seen every damn color out there a few months ago driving past one.

Truth is that factory paint colors are picked by what sells. And most people don’t want yellow and orange. Purple, I’m kinda surprised it isn’t an option more often

I see green, orange, and yellow cars not uncommonly.

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.

I miss colorful cars.

I bought my 2008 Honda Fit in orange in Jan of 08 and gave it to my niece who turned 16 this spring. I took over my wife’s blue car as she wanted something with AWD. It’s a nice blue, but it’s a lot harder to pick my car out in a lot these days.

At least it is Nardo Gray.

My kids play tag whenever they see a yellow car.

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.

I don’t need to see old movies. I have been around since the 1960s… this is just more memoryberry horseshit.

First image I found when I searched ‘1970 parking lot.’

2026 Dodger parking lot.

metallic green, about a week ago

I saw a vintage burnt orange Oldsmobile yesterday, but not on the street

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!

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.

Saturday, the last time I took my car out on the road. However, the point is taken, we specifically wanted one of the nicer colors for our car. The dealer was a bit unhappy with us, as we walked into the dealership and said, “we want this vehicle, at this trim level,. in this color.” Ultimately, we got the car we wanted at one trim level higher, in the color we wanted. We were already paying ~$60k for the vehicle, the extra $2k to go up a trim level was a small enough jump that we decided to take the car, rather than wait longer for special order. And, if I’m fully honest, I’m actually glad we got the higher trim level. Some of the extra features were very nice to have.

Had we wanted white, we could have driven off the lot with a vehicle the same day. But ya, fuck dull colors. Sure, I recall reading that the dull colors have better resell value, but that’s not something I worry about. We use a car as a tool, not an investment. We’ve already paid the car off and we plan to drive it into the ground. And I’d much rather have the car I want to drive, rather than min/max a couple thousand out of it at some far distant date, maybe.

Yellow is far more common than red, I see green occasionally

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

Two days ago. It was a gross dehydrated piss yellow pickup truck

I drive an orange sub-SUV when I’m not driving my baby blue moped. And my wife drives a beige truck (she wanted the white one but it was more expensive with its addons)

Today: yellow, turquoise, green, all in a carpark near my house.

I’m from the UK and recently was in Toronto so rented a car to get around and also to drive to Montreal. We will observed that all the cars were very limited in colours. Is it a North American thing?

In the UK, it has been getting less diverse but still a fair bit of variety

Same experience here. White cars are increasingly common as apparently they have the highest resale value. Quite boring.

They also have the highest rate of paint failure when they are parked in the sun. Paint peels right off.

I saw yellow today, and I see them often enough to make a little game out of it.

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.

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.

My car is green and my partners car is lava orange 🤘

I was just talking about the number of cars that seem to be garden utensil green / brown.

I see a Tuscadero (Metallic Pink) Jeep Wrangler about every other day on my way home from work. Always puts a Smile in my face.

Mine is purple :)

My theory of because of the rental fleet to used car lots flow. Rental fleets will buy newer cars, then sell them back to the dealerships so they can sell them as used cars. It’s much easier to sell generic coloured cars, than highlighter piss yellow

With how many highlighter piss yellow vehicles are still on the road I genuinely think they would sell still.

Yesterday! But I’ve been trying to just look around more. There’s an orange car often, and some pink ones. Also trucks like to be green. Or stripped!

Ooo naked trucks.

There’s a Smart that looks like a cozy coupe that I see fairly often! Also my car is black at white instead of just a solid color. That’s mostly because I’ve had to replace the bumpers after an accident.

Maybe it’s due to being in LA, but I’ve seen plenty of bright colors, an iridescent finish once or twice, and occasionally Angeline Pink.

Oh, I love an iridescent or opalescent finish.

Saw and orange ugly ass Mazda yesterday, and disgusting lime green Tesla truck, and neon pink Tesla, a hunter green vw bug. But god help me the “trendy” color in my state right now that absolutely makes me want to gag is Khaki.

I see a beat up old lime green Hilux around where I live with a big “The Sword” sticker on the aide window of the camper. I want to have a beer and listen to good metal with the owner.

I see green and orange Subarus. There’s an iridescent pink Tesla in my neighborhood. Those colors aren’t as common as the black and white ones mentioned above.

If full vinyl wraps were cheaper, you’d see iridescent pink and purple and orange cars everywhere!

I saw an orange car yesterday. I don’t know the model.

I want a car that is painted with only vibrant colors, and different colors for each part of the car. It would look hideous, but at least I would never lose it in a parking lot.

I mean if I was gonna get a bunch of vibrant colors I would just theme it like a pride flag, tbh.

Someone near me drives one of those pink Mary K cars, so I see it pretty frequently. It’s also not too uncommon to see forest green SUVs in the area also.

i mean taxis are a thing too

Once of my sisters has a… what is it called… champagne (I think) colored SUV. One of my brothers has a bright green car, like a kiwi lime color. Another brother has a 2 tone car that’s half orange half black.

I’ve got a dark blue myself, but if I could afford a paint job it would without a doubt be a nice yellow. Like a dandelion kind of shade. I absolutely looooove the color yellow.

Bring back the harlequin!

Cars have gotten so bland and boring, like new construction homes. Just plain, boring, and more expensive than ever.

There’s an orange truck on our street but I swear half the cars on the road here are white. What the fuck is up with all those white cars?