Let see what have I owned.
- Oldsmobile 88, Maroon with black interior
- Oldsmobile 88, White with green interior
- Oldsmobile Cutlass Salon, blue with white leather interior
- VW Rabbit Diesel, Lemon Yellow with black interior
- Renault LeCar, White with gray interior
- Toyota Corolla, White with tan interior
- Toyota Corolla, White with blue interior
- Honda Civic, Charcoal Grey, with grey interior
- Mazda GLC Wagon, Tan with tan interior
- Honda Accord, Red with light tan interior
- Honda Accord, White with blue interior
- Honda Accord, Blue-green, with blue interior
- Saturn SL2, Gold with tan interior
- Cadillac Eldorado, Crimson with white interior
- Mazda 3 hatch, Grey with black interior
- VW Eos, White with nearly white interior.
I think I have ever only said no to a car once, because of color, when I was in the Accord phase, the dealer tried to get me to take a strange green color once. I have never gone shopping for a car with a color in mind.
I owned numbers 6&7 at the same time, one for me, one for the spouse. The only one I regret parting with was the GLC Wagon. It was a "grey market" import. That model was not sold in the continental United States the year it was built. It had been a rental car in Puerto Rico, shipped from PR to the states and sold as a used car. It was an older simpler design. It was so handy, I should have kept it when I bought the first Accord. I had three new Honda Accords in 4 years, a 1990, 1992, and a 1994. The 94 I kept a long time. The VW Rabbit, was the correct color, it was a lemon, I only kept it a year - and it had the engine torn down and rebuilt a couple of times in that year. LeCar was the first car I bought new, in about 30 minutes on my way to work one morning. It had the coldest air conditioning of any car I have ever seen (ice would form on the dash vents.) It also had a canvass sunroof- great fun.
I owned numbers 6&7 at the same time, one for me, one for the spouse. The only one I regret parting with was the GLC Wagon. It was a "grey market" import. That model was not sold in the continental United States the year it was built. It had been a rental car in Puerto Rico, shipped from PR to the states and sold as a used car. It was an older simpler design. It was so handy, I should have kept it when I bought the first Accord. I had three new Honda Accords in 4 years, a 1990, 1992, and a 1994. The 94 I kept a long time. The VW Rabbit, was the correct color, it was a lemon, I only kept it a year - and it had the engine torn down and rebuilt a couple of times in that year. LeCar was the first car I bought new, in about 30 minutes on my way to work one morning. It had the coldest air conditioning of any car I have ever seen (ice would form on the dash vents.) It also had a canvass sunroof- great fun.
Does color matter to you when buying a car?
nope, I want the car to get me from point A to point B, nothing more.
ReplyDeleteNo, colour doesn't matter to me, just the car itself.
ReplyDeleteNot if it costs too much. I will say this though, for the life of me I will never own another white car with powder blue interior again! Depressing!
ReplyDeletewow that's a lot of cars!
ReplyDeleteI had a lawyer patient who told me he was OK with his car but he was pressured by his firm to get rid of it for a 'proper' car lest he embarrass the firm. Did you have to do something like that?