New car colours
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Racism has always been rife in the motor tradeletthegoodtimesroll said:Why is it if you want to buy a new car and you want any colour other than white you have to pay extra ? A white car still has to be painted. White paint still has to be manufactured/mixed and as ‘white’seems to vary in shade from one car company to another it can’t be because it’s a standard colour.
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Car colours in general are much blander than they used to be.4
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Henry Ford had an opinion on this0
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And as I’ve started on about new cars, it struck me that i live in an affluent area and I work in the city and I’ve only seen a handful of ‘18’ plate cars so far and three of them were on a forecourt- has the new car market totally collapsed ?0
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Spraying a car is sooooo last year. I just got mine wrapped - so much more opportunity to express ones self
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And I’ve just read a report (not sure if it’s reliable) that says 474,069 new cars were registered in March when the 18 plate came in. If that figure is true then I guess there must be a lot of pre-registered vehicles stuck in a field somewhere waiting to be sold as used cars0
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Not just cars. Had a new front door made and fitted last year. £1100 in white, £1300 in any other colour. I don't get it, and the bloke from the door company couldn't explain it.letthegoodtimesroll said:Why is it if you want to buy a new car and you want any colour other than white you have to pay extra ? A white car still has to be painted. White paint still has to be manufactured/mixed and as ‘white’seems to vary in shade from one car company to another it can’t be because it’s a standard colour.
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When we have a white away kit, it costs the same as the home one!6
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Maybe white is the undercoat for the other colours and so a white car is simply an unfinished car.MrLargo said:
Not just cars. Had a new front door made and fitted last year. £1100 in white, £1300 in any other colour. I don't get it, and the bloke from the door company couldn't explain it.letthegoodtimesroll said:Why is it if you want to buy a new car and you want any colour other than white you have to pay extra ? A white car still has to be painted. White paint still has to be manufactured/mixed and as ‘white’seems to vary in shade from one car company to another it can’t be because it’s a standard colour.
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18 plates only hit the road in March, give it a chance!letthegoodtimesroll said:And as I’ve started on about new cars, it struck me that i live in an affluent area and I work in the city and I’ve only seen a handful of ‘18’ plate cars so far and three of them were on a forecourt- has the new car market totally collapsed ?
For example 18 plates run from 1st March 18 to 31st August 18.
they then switch to the 78 format from September.
Which is a shame as I'd hoped to get an 88 plate for my 30th... Have to wait til my 40th now...0 -
It's true there are very few "solid" colours to choose from these days.
Just had a look at the configurator for the Range Rover Sport. The basic choice is black or white in "solid" at no extra charge. There are then seven metallics at £850 extra; one "premium" metallic at £1,695 extra, 15 "ultra" metallics at £3,570 extra and five "specials" at £6,120. I reckon about half of those colours are either black, white or grey in various shades. They then want to charge you an extra £615 for a black glass roof but don't deduct anything for not having to paint this bit of the car!
But I know some car paint is expensive and some of these are chromaflair which I seem to recall is about £250 a litre (and you'd probably need close to 20 litres I guess for a Rangie), then there's the base coat and the clear coat stuff, so maybe it's about right but presumably Land Rover get a bulk buy discount!
When I had TVRs you could choose any colour you liked. I've had a BMW colour, a Ferrari colour and one of TVR's own paints on my old cars. They used to charge what it cost and even back then chromaflair was an extra £1750 on a small car. (Mind you, there was a dog called Ned in charge of accounts so anything could have been happening. They'd had to move him from styling when he bit a chunk out of a clay model. Although his efforts made it to the final design and can be seen in the scoops above the front splitter on a Chimaera.)
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it'll be 68 in September, not 78Dazzler21 said:
18 plates only hit the road in March, give it a chance!letthegoodtimesroll said:And as I’ve started on about new cars, it struck me that i live in an affluent area and I work in the city and I’ve only seen a handful of ‘18’ plate cars so far and three of them were on a forecourt- has the new car market totally collapsed ?
For example 18 plates run from 1st March 18 to 31st August 18.
they then switch to the 78 format from September.
Which is a shame as I'd hoped to get an 88 plate for my 30th... Have to wait til my 40th now...
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But half a million have been registered...so why aren’t we seeing them on the roads ? Usually you start noticing new plates everywhere, certainly where I live and work, yet as I’ve posted I’ve only spotted a handful (and 3 were on a forecourt) despite making the effort to look when I’m strolling aroundDazzler21 said:
18 plates only hit the road in March, give it a chance!letthegoodtimesroll said:And as I’ve started on about new cars, it struck me that i live in an affluent area and I work in the city and I’ve only seen a handful of ‘18’ plate cars so far and three of them were on a forecourt- has the new car market totally collapsed ?
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What are people moaning at, in my day it was any colour as long as its black... bah humbug.0
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Good point I'll have to wait til my 50th thenrina said:
it'll be 68 in September, not 78Dazzler21 said:
18 plates only hit the road in March, give it a chance!letthegoodtimesroll said:And as I’ve started on about new cars, it struck me that i live in an affluent area and I work in the city and I’ve only seen a handful of ‘18’ plate cars so far and three of them were on a forecourt- has the new car market totally collapsed ?
For example 18 plates run from 1st March 18 to 31st August 18.
they then switch to the 78 format from September.
Which is a shame as I'd hoped to get an 88 plate for my 30th... Have to wait til my 40th now...
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It's that weird old thing when you look for something, for some reason you fail to see it. Then when you're not trying suddenly it's everywhere.letthegoodtimesroll said:
But half a million have been registered...so why aren’t we seeing them on the roads ? Usually you start noticing new plates everywhere, certainly where I live and work, yet as I’ve posted I’ve only spotted a handful (and 3 were on a forecourt) despite making the effort to look when I’m strolling aroundDazzler21 said:
18 plates only hit the road in March, give it a chance!letthegoodtimesroll said:And as I’ve started on about new cars, it struck me that i live in an affluent area and I work in the city and I’ve only seen a handful of ‘18’ plate cars so far and three of them were on a forecourt- has the new car market totally collapsed ?
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5609939/Number-vehicles-registered-UK-falls-time-six-years.htmlDazzler21 said:
18 plates only hit the road in March, give it a chance!letthegoodtimesroll said:And as I’ve started on about new cars, it struck me that i live in an affluent area and I work in the city and I’ve only seen a handful of ‘18’ plate cars so far and three of them were on a forecourt- has the new car market totally collapsed ?
For example 18 plates run from 1st March 18 to 31st August 18.
they then switch to the 78 format from September.
Which is a shame as I'd hoped to get an 88 plate for my 30th... Have to wait til my 40th now...
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I’ll probably see around 50 of them now on the way to work...Dazzler21 said:
It's that weird old thing when you look for something, for some reason you fail to see it. Then when you're not trying suddenly it's everywhere.letthegoodtimesroll said:
But half a million have been registered...so why aren’t we seeing them on the roads ? Usually you start noticing new plates everywhere, certainly where I live and work, yet as I’ve posted I’ve only spotted a handful (and 3 were on a forecourt) despite making the effort to look when I’m strolling aroundDazzler21 said:
18 plates only hit the road in March, give it a chance!letthegoodtimesroll said:And as I’ve started on about new cars, it struck me that i live in an affluent area and I work in the city and I’ve only seen a handful of ‘18’ plate cars so far and three of them were on a forecourt- has the new car market totally collapsed ?
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