Okay, I have to rant about this.
Actually, I have two rants.
First rant: Am I the only one who's getting tired of the bland, boring colors cars seem to have nowadays? How many variations of gray do we need? Why are so many cars silver?
You know what silver is? It's a shiny version of gray!
For some reason, lots of people here seem to like white ("expedition white.")
Not me. I hate white, and I've owned more white vehicles than any other color (because I normally buy used, and except for black, color is never a deal breaker for me.)
Bleh. White is boring. It's like driving around in a blank sheet of paper. When I had my white Montero, I seriously wanted to paint Zebra stripes on it to make it look more interesting. :safari-rig:
The only thing I'll say about white is I like it better than black, but that's not saying much. Black, white and silver seem to be the most common colors, but really, they're not even colors. They're the
absence of color.
My favorite color is green (especially forest green) which was very popular in the 90s but you see less and less of it now (I really wish I'd been able to find a forest green 4runner, I love that color!) I also like bold colors: Orange, yellow, deep blue, even purple. But they're hard to find, especially on trucks or SUVs (one of the things I like about the FJ Cruiser is they offer it in some very nice, bold colors. Ditto for the Nissan Xterra.)
The imports seem worse in this respect, maybe they are sticking with bland colors because it makes them more marketable in other countries, I don't know. But look at Jeep, for instance, which offers some great colors on its Wrangler series. Then look at the 4th gen 4runner. For one year (2003) it was offered in a cool dark green, but since then there's a red, and then 18 different variations of black, gray, silver, white, etc. - AKA the bland colors.
I know colors are fashion trends that go in cycles, but I can't
wait for this one to end.
Second rant: What's with these color names? Seems like they have one person who picks the colors, and then a committee of 10 people who try to come up with crative
names for the colors. Apparently they get extra points for making it impossible to determine what the color is by hearing the name.
Actually, I take it back, they don't have 10 people picking the names, they have a computer with a random word generator that picks the names.
Hmmm "Desert moon sunflower organdy mica." Yeah, that sounds like a great color. Of course, from
hearing it, you don't know whether it's tan, yellow, orange, white or black, but it
sounds cool.
This is another area where the US manufacturers seem to have an edge: They will usually throw a real color
somewhere into the naming scheme, like "Rescue Green" or "Fire engine Red" or "powder blue" so you have at least
some idea of what the color is.
Even my own truck is apparently "desert dune mica."
Why can't they just say "tan" and leave it at that? That's what I say when I describe it to people.
