Are white cars sooo 90s?

modern day white, oddly, is nothing like the die fest of the 80s, 90s. My dad had a pug 309 in white. It was a shocking colour. Yet, a white 3 series is so bright, it makes your eyes fall out.
 
Lucero said:
modern day white, oddly, is nothing like the die fest of the 80s, 90s. My dad had a pug 309 in white. It was a shocking colour. Yet, a white 3 series is so bright, it makes your eyes fall out.
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but then in the 80s, white was almost soley reserved for lamars so it wouldnt have had colour coded bumpers or bling wheels lol
 
What's the easiest colour to keep looking cleanish for the longest? I'm talking in spring/summer, not this crappy weather we're getting or about to get?

Light blue? Silver (boring - I have a silver car) - what about graphite? I quite like the look of dark silver/grey... I don't fancy something reddish.
 
My parentals had a white Carina II in 1990 and then a white Corolla in 1995. Hence me thinking white is 90s. I did see a Mazda 3 MPS in whatever white they have and it looked quite nice, hence me asking. But I'd be getting something estate-sized so hmmm, it's probably a no.
 
Jono said:
Or do they look quite cool?

A sort of pearlescent white, not solid white, we're talking? Forget the model/shape, if you like the shape in another colour, should it look good in white?
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Nice cars always look good in white. Always.

I specced this Granturismo MC Sportline up on Maserati's website last week and saved it into my "hopes and dreams" label in Gmail.

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One day..... *sheds ytear*
 
It seems like silver is the colour for those in middle management and white is for "new money" folk with not a huge amount of taste.

I was in TGI Friday in Cardiff and this lad pulled up in an 11 plate R8 (maybe R10 I don't know how to tell) it was a cab with that iffy red fabric roof. Just looked really tacky to me. Lad gets out covered in tattoos and the bird is like some NDubz reject.

My godmother is known for her inabilty to spot good taste and her first A5 cab order was the same colour scheme as this R8, white with red fabric. She later relented and went for a different scheme.

Theres a family local who you could only call "new money" and they all drive white cars - X5, 1 Series etc. They seem to be bringing a small slice of Essex to our sleepy west wales town :)

Having said that, white rally reps, Impreza, EVO, Integrale are fairly stunning IMO.
 
I think white has definitely made a return. Nearly all the photographs of new cars i see in press releases are in white.

I really like white cars - if kept clean, and have some contrasting black (a black piece of trim here and there) they look really nice.
 
Matt82 said:
plus S1 escort RS turbo

see the theme? i think that was very much a ford thing
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Who were the largest seller of cars in the 80's by some margin? MG also did it too, release colours for Montego and Maestro were white and the Metro too was often seen in white. There were lots of white cars in the 80's and people bought them because it was usually a no cost colour where as anything metallic carried a price premium, which is less the case these days. Not that I liked any of those MG cars (i was a Ford man) but white was an 80's thing not a 90's thing really and the current 'trend' in white cars harks back to then not the 90's. Everyone stopped buying them after the 80's because they were a pain in the backside to keep looking clean and only really started buying them again when manufacturers started shipping a few white models. I've said it before, white cars will fall out of fashion again soon.
 
White used to be bargain basement, cheapest of the cheap. Late 90's filthy Astra Estates driven by photocopier repair guys as company cars were white. Vans are white. etc.

Then a few years ago everyone decided that living in the UK was just like living in Southern California, and because a Porsche 911 on the front in Santa Barbara looks awesome in white, so too would a Volkswagen Golf diesel on the A38 just outside of Bromsgrove in the rain.
 
[TW]Fox;20521217 said:
Then a few years ago everyone decided that living in the UK was just like living in Southern California, and because a Porsche 911 on the front in Santa Barbara looks awesome in white, so too would a Volkswagen Golf diesel on the A38 just outside of Bromsgrove in the rain.
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did actually LOL at that.

it suits some cars down to the ground, only some.
 
They do not look good.

There is a few rare examples, but generally speaking it looks naff and cheap.

Most of them look like vans.
 
I'm looking at a white Seat Leon at the moment, never really fancied a white car but it suits the Leons :)
 
[TW]Fox;20521217 said:
White used to be bargain basement, cheapest of the cheap. Late 90's filthy Astra Estates driven by photocopier repair guys as company cars were white. Vans are white. etc.

Then a few years ago everyone decided that living in the UK was just like living in Southern California, and because a Porsche 911 on the front in Santa Barbara looks awesome in white, so too would a Volkswagen Golf diesel on the A38 just outside of Bromsgrove in the rain.
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This made me lol. Fox you come out with some classic posts sometimes.
 
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