Paint - an optional extra

photome

molerat wrote: »

Fords come in red, any other colour is extra.

New Seat leons only free colour is blue

motorguy

photome wrote: »

New Seat leons only free colour is blue

Probably a boring solid blue?

Non metallic Urano Grey is the default standard colour on Passats.

Gloomendoom

DUTR wrote: »

White has been a cost option for a few years now, I had to pay around £900 for my white paint.

I haven't bought a new car for three years (a white one). I suspect that once white became fashionable rather than just the cheapest option, manufacturers were quick to charge for it.

DUTR

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I haven't bought a new car for three years (a white one). I suspect that once white became fashionable rather than just the cheapest option, manufacturers were quick to charge for it.

Indeed, on the Golf, white, red black and grey were at no extra cost, now white and red +£250, metallics +£525 , pearlescent +£900

AdrianC

It is possible that the no-cost colours are a simpler finish, without a clearcoat varnish, whereas the optional solids are colour + clear.

Or it might just be marketing. Let's face it, many higher-level or extra-cost features on modern cars are simply a tickbox in software, rather than additional hardware.

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consumers_revenge wrote: »

grannies like beige....

This is the truth.

Only old people drive Micras, and old people like beige. It's the same colour as their hearing aids you see. No point offering any other colour really.

Ectophile

AdrianC wrote: »

White moved from pariah to default at about the time the Police moved from white to silver cars.

The police only started buying silver cars because nobody wanted to buy white ones when it was time to move them on.

Gloomendoom

Ectophile wrote: »

The police only started buying silver cars because nobody wanted to buy white ones when it was time to move them on.

I had a couple of white Rover 800s in the 90's. Traffic used to melt away in front of me on dual carriageways and motorways.

motorguy

Ectophile wrote: »

The police only started buying silver cars because nobody wanted to buy white ones when it was time to move them on.

Indeed. Its the same with hire cars. Used to be they went for the poverty spec and in a solid colour, now they pick the most popular spec in a variety of - usually metallic - colours, for easy resale and higher residuals.

Iceweasel

Richard53 wrote: »

I think that is British Leyland Sandglow. My first car, a Mini, was in Sandglow.


I later had a Dolomite in Russet Brown - known universally by a slightly different term, rhyming with log bit, because that is exactly the colour it was.


Sandglow was better, marginally.

I thought the colour was called 'Sahara Beige'..

My mum's mini clubman was - I think

But maybe I'm wrong- I often am.