just my luck :(

You will spend months polishing it. Then longer crying when it still doesn't look perfect. Black cars look great, but getting one so that the paint's perfect is a complete pain in the arse.

aint that the truth.. and the slightest scuff shows like hell too!!

im NEVER gonna have another black car!!!

id go silver..

Lost

Lostin1999 raved thus:

:: id go silver..

Like every other car on the road...

Go to Japan, almost every car *is* silver there. At least we get the odd red one here!

In fact it's weird. The Japanese normally like small colourful things, but with cars it's the complete opposite. They all have big cars that are either silver or white, bizarre.

orange mk2 mr's are lovely with the black and silver split rims, seen one on my road, different alloys front and rear. looked the nuts.

That's because white and for the most part silver are seen as signs of granduar.

Matt

Isn't white the Japanese equivalent to British racing green?

What the hell is it with "racing green"??

It's a bollocks colour, and I can think of no car where it actually looks better than another colour would...

Andy R

I reckon it looks good on stuff like Jags, but I'd not have it on a Lotus. Unless it was BRG and Yellow.

i prefer the imperial green on the LC.

Yebbut that's black 9/10 times you look at it...

Back before around 1968 for F1, racing cars were coloured according to the country of origin:

http://130.217.159.224/~sjf11/Pre1968.html British Racing Green was just the colour the British cars were coloured. I dunno why, but it's not a very exciting colour, no error there.

No element of choice in that regard, so people who chose to have their private cars in the same colours were aspiring to "look sporty", whatever nation they drove their car in.

The Germans ran silver, driving a silver car made a different statement. A lot of Mercs were / are silver. Italy ran red cars, guess what colour Ferrari often are...

The French used blue, lots of their cars were/are blue, particularly the sportier ones.

Half a century later, it's not quite the same thing, but hey...

wrote

I have often thought that 'sporty' Peugeots look best in blue. For instance, 205 GTi's always look best in blue in my opinion.

Douglas

I quite like the green ones as well, but thats probly just cos they are so rare :)

C,D, and E type Jaguar full Le Man Spec

Exactly.

And while we're at it, white cars should be illegal.

MKII MR2 looks good in white especially with white alloys for that jap touring car look :)

No.

It doesn't.

Hope that helps.

And the original mini looks good in white with black bonnet stripes and a black roof...