IMHO you cannot beat the metallic Pink Honda Jazz for awfulness
I think the pink Jazz is wonderful, and I'd be tempted to buy one just to get that colour. But each to their own!
|
I think the pink Jazz is wonderful, and I'd be tempted to buy one just to get that colour. But each to their own!
Yep...I'd like a car that colour too! Think it could just possibly be a girl thing.
>metallic silver cum lilac colour
And I'm just saying nothing about that!
|
I think the pink was chosen by Yasuka Matsuura, Japanese product manager who did a stint in the UK working on the Jazz. And work meant work. Her colleagues had never seen anyone work as hard.
HJ
|
Saw a new Avensis today on the Motorway and, in my eyes, it was metallic BROWN!!
No doubt Toyota have a different name for it - probably dark bronze or something!
|
Did someone mention MINIs :-)
I never thought for a second that Pepper White (as BMW call it) would work, but I've got a friend with a car that colour, an S, and it looks fabulous.
If you want a sick colour, the cabriolet comes in a weird Austin Allesgo Orange Colour and they're introducing a disgusting purple over the range.
More interestingly, they're doing a chromatic colour thing which looks a different colour from different angles, much like the Primera a few years back. Drawback though is it's done by the dealer and costs ~£3,500 - Holy schomely!
On a positive note, they do a beautiful blue in the cabriolet S, light blue and I love the dark blue that the Honda S2000 comes in.
That dodgy green on the Kia Rio is probably my least favourite at the moment, but I've not seen the brown Avensis yet - sounds deeply unpromising.
Lee.
--
Lee
MINI adventure in progress
|
When I bought the C5 a couple of years ago, I couldn't make up my mind what sort of colour I fancied. In the end, I went for black! To be honest, it doesn't maybe do the C5 any favours, and it attracts dirt like nothing on earth. Having said all that, though, you are motivated to clean and polish it more often and when you do, there's really nothing quite like that deep dark gloss........then after the first mile or so, it's back to square one!
Graeme
|
|
|
|
Used to live round the corner from the new sales manager of the local BMW dealership. He had a steady stream of VERY nice cars. Until, that is, a new 5 turned up in an "Individual" paint job going by the name of "brass".
I had to ask him why anyone in their right mind would pay a huge amount extra to have a car that looked EXACTLY as if it had been defecated.
He denied that....
|
I was thinking about this the other day, how brown is now totally gone as regards colour choice. In the 80's BL did loads of Minis and Montegos in Clove Brown, totally boring and somehow made the car appear slower!
I spotted one of those Nissans in a chameleon changing metallic recently, a Micra changing from green to bronze as it turned a corner. The white shade mentioned is also available on the Seat Arosa, a very slight blue/white shade that looks like plain white until you compare the front number plate colour as a contrast.
|
I was thinking about this the other day, how brown is now totally gone as regards colour choice.
Not quite, saw an X5 in a quite dark brown the other day.
You're already imagining how bad it looked aren't you? Well, you're wrong. It was far worse than that.
|
|
|
|
Ford "Purple Velvet" of the mid seventies - ah luvverly
I admit had a Cortina 2000 GT in it with a black vinyl roof - memories!
Roger in Spain
|
|
|
|
Saw a new Avensis today on the Motorway and, in my eyes, it was metallic BROWN!! No doubt Toyota have a different name for it - probably dark bronze or something!
>>
Just returned home after reading this thread earlier.
I too have just seen a pale brown Avensis. Not a pretty sight.
It is in the brochure as IRVING BRONZE (m).
If you choose a T spirit you can have it with the St Moritz Charcoal Leather seats. Other models options are Canton Charcoal cloth or Tresse Charcoal cloth.
So it looks like your Avensis comes with any colour seats providing they are black.
|
|
|
I've looked on the Toyota website and the name of the colour is apparently Irving Bronze. Cheers, Irv.
Saw a Beetle in lemon yellow today as well, except it's more green than any lemon I've seen. It's more of a primrose colour, which suits small, spring-flowering, ground hugging plants, but not bulbous Golf based two door coupés.
|
Whether a colour looks good or not often depends on the car. Most people would think yellow looks naff, but on a Lotus it really suits. Who'd want flat red? Never heard any one say they'd love a Ferrari, but not in that colour.
And I always thought beige suited my Marina coupe!
|
Ferrari F35s and 360s look lovely in red...
Saw a Merc C-class coupe the other day. Lime green metallic with black/green seats. Lovely. Must drop the reale value by 000s.
|
|
If you think about it, every manufacturer does at least one naff colour - as a joke perhaps? You usually find out what that is when you come to search for a specific model of used car. For example, a friend who recently bought a 4 year old Alfa Spider found cars in "acid green" and "vittoria blue" both unappealing and noticeably cheaper than cars in the more conventional red, black, silver etc. Same story a few years back buying a Peugeot 306 GTI 16 - "inca gold" was readily available for buttons... Talking of beige, there's a 97 Polo parked round the corner from me in a really nasty dog poo beige brown colour. You have to wonder how anyone chose this - I've never seen another!
|
an ex-spainish Land Rover painted in a pastel hue very dusty almost blending in with the buidings of the village it lived in.
The good news is SWMBO is paying for it to be re-sprayed in a "proper" Land Rover colour of glossy green....
|
|
|
I think the pink was chosen by Yasuka Matsuura, Japanese product manager who did a stint in the UK working on the Jazz. And work meant work. Her colleagues had never seen anyone work as hard.
Thanks, HJ, for that interesting snippet. I wondered if a woman's hand had ben involved somewhere in getting that color onto the palette!
One review I read of the Jazz said of the pearlescent pink colour that it was suitable for girls who preferred barbie dolls to BMX bikes, or for men who were very confident about their sexuality!
|
|
|
|
|
