White is the new Black!

Ernest

Looking at new 12-D registered cars on the streets these days, there definitely seems to be a new trend towards bright white colours - especially the more expensive models. Personally I welcome this. I am sick and tired of seeing every second car in funereal black for the past ten years. That's the cars that are not coloured grey or grey metallic("silver").

White cars look lovely and are most visible in all traffic so presumably they are safer on the road too.

langdang

White does look well on a high spec car. Ruined unfortunately by the high scummer proportion of owners. Tis pee-yoor classai

Atomic Pineapple

White has been the "in" colour on new cars for a good few years now.

-Corkie-

I dont really like white cars unless its something like a Focus RS or a large German estate with a Pano roof..

Wexfordian

Wouldn't have said black was the old black tbh. Seemed to me that the most predominant colour has been silver for a while now.

langdang

Black is back, all in, we're gonna win
Check it out, yeah y'all c'mon, here we go again....
Wish I had some headphones now, this thread is after putting that in my head...

R.O.R

When vehicles come back to us we note a few details, one of which is colour. Here are the stats on cars that have come back so far this year:

Black 34.15%
Silver 19.01%
Blue 15.85%
Grey 14.44%
White 7.75%
Red 4.58%
Beige 1.41%
Green 1.06%
Gold 0.70%
Brown 0.35%
Copper 0.35%
Lilac 0.35%

White is probably a bit higher than I'd expect it to be as the figures are distorted by commercials, which are mainly white.

Trying to put together figures for new cars, but a bit of work needed to filter the actual manufacturer colour names in to a useable list.

Hersheys

Ernest wrote: »

Looking at new 12-D registered cars on the streets these days, there definitely seems to be a new trend towards bright white colours - especially the more expensive models. Personally I welcome this. I am sick and tired of seeing every second car in funereal black for the past ten years. That's the cars that are not coloured grey or grey metallic("silver").

White cars look lovely and are most visible in all traffic so presumably they are safer on the road too.

Most visible until there's fog/snow and the drivers don't turn on their lights

R.O.R

New Vehicles - taken out a block order of vans that would have skewed the figures

Black 25.32%
Silver 25.00%
Grey 16.46%
White 14.24%
Blue 9.49%
Red 4.11%
Brown 3.48%
Beige 1.27%
Green 0.32%
Lilac 0.32%


Blue is down, white is up, Black is still the King but Silver is also making a bit of a return.

White only suits hotter/sunnier climates imo. Such as Spain, Italy etc.

They just don't look great in Dull/wet Ireland

Tea 1000

R.O.R wrote: »

New Vehicles - taken out a block order of vans that would have skewed the figures

Black 25.32%
Silver 25.00%
Grey 16.46%
White 14.24%
Blue 9.49%
Red 4.11%
Brown 3.48%
Beige 1.27%
Green 0.32%
Lilac 0.32%


Blue is down, white is up, Black is still the King but Silver is also making a bit of a return.

Some grey's are practically silver though.

R.O.R

cisk wrote: »

White only suits hotter/sunnier climates imo. Such as Spain, Italy etc.

They just don't look great in Dull/wet Ireland

Kept well they still look good. Left to get dirty, not so much.

A gorgeous White S60 D4 R-Design went out yesterday and I've a lovely looking Mazda 6 Sport SE in White to go next week. What they'll look like in 3/4 years time is another matter......

Tea 1000 wrote: »

Some grey's are practically silver though.

As I manually went through the manufacturer colours and assigned those I know to be Silver as Silver, and those I know to be Grey as Grey, you can take that as fairly accurate. I can't think of a Grey off the top of my head that would be considered as Silver.

tommyombomb

thought grey would be the most popular as it hides the dirt pretty well.

mitosis

White gets old looking fast. Not helped by "modded car" enthusiasts in 15 year old Japanese cars with what seem to be blown exhausts.

pete4130

White cars are far more common in warmer countries and it isn't even a topic of conversation.
Ireland is generally cooler so when people don't have to deal with getting into a car with an internal temp of 42c+ they don't consider white. Yes trends have gone more towards white the past few years but its a trend, not practicality.

MetzgerMeister

ROR - I bet the Lilac ones are Lexus are they? What a horrific colour!!

mitosis

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

ROR - I bet the Lilac ones are Lexus are they? What a horrific colour!!

My moneys going to be on Imprezas

langdang

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

ROR - I bet the Lilac ones are Lexus are they? What a horrific colour!!

Micra's come in a lilac colour too.
The Lexus "fresh cow****e" yellow/green colour is way worse than any variant of purple.

MuppetCheck

mitosis wrote: »

My moneys going to be on Imprezas

They haven't done that colour in years!

Stallingrad

I think white is the new green, what a folly that was.

R.O.R

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

ROR - I bet the Lilac ones are Lexus are they? What a horrific colour!!

Superb's actually! Amethyst Purple is the official colour name, but it's more lilac according to the ladies in the office (men only know about 5 colours). It's not as bad as it sounds, it's actually bordering on Grey.

Fizman

I used to detest all white cars. I would have laughed in your face if you had ever told me I'd be spending 5 figures on a white car.

Then about 3 years ago a Candy White Mk5 3-door GTI rolled past me with it's big delicious 18" wheels.

A month later, I bought it.

There is just something about the correctly specced GTI that looks really bloody well in Candy.

langdang

R.O.R wrote: »

Superb's actually! Amethyst Purple is the official colour name, but it's more lilac according to the ladies in the office (men only know about 5 colours). It's not as bad as it sounds, it's actually bordering on Grey.

Bet you don't do many Malichite Green ones. :pac: Bleuch!

Dont be at yourself

Always been far and away the most popular colour in Japan (I'd say probably 70%+ are white over there). Recently taken off over here too. I bought a perlescent white car last year.

I read a news story that linked the recent popularity to Apple unveiling white iPhones -- imediately making it a luxury colour.

Tea 1000

R.O.R wrote: »

Kept well they still look good. Left to get dirty, not so much.

A gorgeous White S60 D4 R-Design went out yesterday and I've a lovely looking Mazda 6 Sport SE in White to go next week. What they'll look like in 3/4 years time is another matter......



As I manually went through the manufacturer colours and assigned those I know to be Silver as Silver, and those I know to be Grey as Grey, you can take that as fairly accurate. I can't think of a Grey off the top of my head that would be considered as Silver.

That's fair enough, but I know cars like some of the old A6's had some fancy grey name for what was essentially silver with a very light tint of something.
The Irish are chronic for choosing colours on a car though. Pick the basic crap, silver or black.. can't go wrong... paint the house some tint of yellow and choose the house design out of a catalog of boring designs, blah blah.
That bronzey kind of colour for the E-Class for example looks fab, really makes the car look it's price. But I've never seen one on the road. Every E-Class is silver, which basically means most people buying one pay extra to have it unpainted.
There are many nice colours, only a handful of people will ever actually buy them!
And classic Irish "I hate red" mentality annoys me too. Red is a colour that can ruin some cars, but others look fab in it.

scamalert

now if person lived in country like spain then yes white is new black,but in Ireland white is piece of ****e :pac: most people cant manage to clean car once a week and most do it once in a blue moon,so it might look nice but when rust and tar gonna start sticking to their new car they gonna be worthless.Silver and white are the biggest Pain in the A$$ (sorry for my language) colors ,there can be seen every bug every splash of dirt and to clean them takes ages.So unless person is really dedicated motorist who cares about the car and has time to give it a good clean every day and wax every couple weeks then yes,but not in this pissy weather country.

Dont be at yourself

scamalert wrote: »

now if person lived in country like spain then yes white is new black,but in Ireland white is piece of ****e :pac: most people cant manage to clean car once a week and most do it once in a blue moon,so it might look nice but when rust and tar gonna start sticking to their new car they gonna be worthless.Silver and white are the biggest Pain in the A$$ (sorry for my language) colors ,there can be seen every bug every splash of dirt and to clean them takes ages.So unless person is really dedicated motorist who cares about the car and has time to give it a good clean every day and wax every couple weeks then yes,but not in this pissy weather country.

White's way easier to keep clean and hides dirt better than black cars, tbh.

Fizman

I went from a black Golf to a white Golf and the white is way easier to keep clean.

Wexfordian

scamalert wrote: »

now if person lived in country like spain then yes

Spain? Dust central? Your white car would be a sandy colour for 6 months of the year unless you lived within about 10k of the coast.

unkel

White is for vans - horrible on cars

Especially when you see it on an otherwise nice Audi, BMW or Mercedes. What a waste of a nice car

R.O.R wrote: »

White 7.75%

That's still nearly 8% too many

dahamsta

Can't stand white on cars. Might as well write Zanussi or Hotpoint down the side of them.

mitosis

Tea 1000 wrote: »

That's fair enough, but I know cars like some of the old A6's had some fancy grey name for what was essentially silver with a very light tint of something.
The Irish are chronic for choosing colours on a car though. Pick the basic crap, silver or black.. can't go wrong... paint the house some tint of yellow and choose the house design out of a catalog of boring designs, blah blah.
That bronzey kind of colour for the E-Class for example looks fab, really makes the car look it's price. But I've never seen one on the road. Every E-Class is silver, which basically means most people buying one pay extra to have it unpainted.
There are many nice colours, only a handful of people will ever actually buy them!
And classic Irish "I hate red" mentality annoys me too. Red is a colour that can ruin some cars, but others look fab in it.

Mind you, silver is the racing colour for Mercedes....

Hal Decks

Given how subjective colour is, some of the replies to this thread are bewdering. Each to their own, I say!!!

Stallingrad

Purple cars bewilder me. Unless the purple is called 'Techno Violet'...

fabsoul

Fizman wrote: »

I used to detest all white cars. I would have laughed in your face if you had ever told me I'd be spending 5 figures on a white car.

Then about 3 years ago a Candy White Mk5 3-door GTI rolled past me with it's big delicious 18" wheels.

A month later, I bought it.

There is just something about the correctly specced GTI that looks really bloody well in Candy.

I never though i buy a white car well a SUV
I think it look great here one like it, I must take some picture of my own soon.

ShadowHearth

Tea 1000 wrote: »

Some grey's are practically silver though.

Is there a difference?! :P

az2wp0sye65487

langdang wrote: »

White does look well on a high spec car. Ruined unfortunately by the high scummer proportion of owners. Tis pee-yoor classai

When I see a white car, especially the higher spec or more expensive types.... it just says to me: "Drug Dealer"

ION08

In other (sunnier) countries white = class / prestige

In ireland white = imported integra Type R / Ford Transit, HiAce Vans

Honey-ec

White = commercial fleet to me, thanks to 6 years in Digifone/O2 where the entire tech fleet (Land Cruisers, Discoveries and Focuses [Focii?]) was white. Not a colour I'd ever consider for my own car.

challengemaster

unkel wrote: »

White is for vans - horrible on cars

Especially when you see it on an otherwise nice Audi, BMW or Mercedes. What a waste of a nice car

Have to disagree, some look amazing

dahamsta

challengemaster wrote: »

Have to disagree, some look amazing

Yocky

ION08

White Cars in the USA :




White Cars in Ireland:

RedorDead

Here are the numbers nationwide in Ireland for this year vs last year. Thanks to Motorcheck for the stats!

As you can see - white and brown on a roll but still in a distant 6th and 7th behind the usual suspects - silver, black, grey, blue and red.

mrsoundie

Saw one of the 2012 Ford Mondeo in Coonagh Cross Tesco looked brilliant and have seen a few A4's as well looked good.

2013-Ford-Mondeo-1.jpg

Ernest

Rayne Aggressive Graphology wrote: »

When I see a white car, especially the higher spec or more expensive types.... it just says to me: "Drug Dealer"

Wrong. Whenever you see a shiny black BMW car it says probably a drug dealer or a property developer being paid by NAMA.....

ION08 wrote: »

In other (sunnier) countries white = class / prestige
In ireland white = imported integra Type R / Ford Transit, HiAce Vans

That's just plain illogical. That imported white Japanese cars thing peaked years ago.

vectra

I think white cars look well.

_Kaiser_

White cars was all the rage in 2008 on Astra hatchbacks but that's about it really. I wouldn't say I've ever noticed an abundance of them on the roads.

I did see a white 08 Passat once though that stood out - don't know if I'd go as far as saying it looked well, but it was certainly different

Berty

White is making a comeback to be sure but not back to what it was. It used to be Corollas and Avenisii that were mainly white but now its high end cars.

I think the A4 is bordering on a little too big to be white. Anything smaller than that is ok by me.

Nice



Too big




A BMW 3 series in white is the biggest suitable size of white in a Saloon/Coupe and Kuga, Q3, Qashqai are the biggest white a car should be.

daaaycent boy

What about estates?



Might buy a Audi estate in the coming months!

ION08

It looks daaaycent boy

your username only ads to the stereotype

daaaycent boy

ION08 wrote: »

It looks daaaycent boy

your username only ads to the stereotype

I know!!!

Will probably buy red or black though.