Originally Posted by PaulJ
It's interesting that colours are all about fashion and Grey is now a fashionable colour. I'm not knocking it, my last new tiptop, a showroom spec'd car is in metallic dark grey, but a few years ago, well, 10 - 15 anyway grey was seen as a non colour, it was all about metallic silver then, now bingo, half the cars on the road are one shade of grey or another.

I agree with Heinz, choosing a colour scheme from scratch is like heaven and hell both together. My current +4 was pre-specced by Krazy Horse, who are not known for being too conservative, so I have matte red paintwork, but apart from my pal Budster asking me when I am gong to get the final topcoat applied, I love it now, although would not recommend it it for day to day use, as it cannot easily be touched up or have scratches buffed out.
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For me, I do not like to have a completely free choice of colour scheme, whatever is pre-determined is usually loved eventually.


Agree with your comments

I think choosing the right colour is very important and agree some colours are fashionable and on mainstream cars can date the car or even make the car difficult to sell. In the 1990's I remember my father in law being told his Mercedes was worth less in part exchange because he had ordered white, wheras in 2017 solid Pepper White was so popular it was a chargeable option on my Mini.

Solid grey is a very retro colour. If grey is popular now, have a look at the BMC colour chart from 1964/67. Out of 50 colours there aren't '50 shades of grey' but surprisingly there are no less than 12 shades of grey!

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