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You can touch up white paint with Tippex though. And polish dries in the scratches better than almost any other colour.

Still looks like they should have a ballcock in them though. Some do I am sure.

 

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Old English White looks great - particularly on my 1964 MGB. Toilet Bowl White looks cheap.

Love the burnt orange metallics on some of the latest cars though.

 

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Old English White = old toilet bowl!

Burnt Orange = Ginger! see it on a lot of Hondas & Kias - Nuff said!

But if we all liked the same thing, it would be a boring old world, wouldn't it? I really like the Sportage in that burnt orange colour, and the Freelander, however can see why some wouldn't, but I have never been one to hide my light under a bushell.

 

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And when I hair, it was ginger. All the best people are. the rest are just jealous.

 

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White is all very well, but you wait 'till it snows & no one will be able to find thier car.

Rover used to do a beautiful bronze colour long before anyone else - same as the metallic British Racing Green, out before any one else was brave enough.

 

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SEAT Leon:
2 Whites
1 Black
4 Silvers/Greys
2 Reds
3 Blues*
1 Brown
1 Green (sporting colour!)

*including "Tossa Blue"(!) (true in Germany) (borrowed from Audi? )

Non metallic dark blue was universally caller 'Doom Blue' in the motor trade, as it sold so badly.

 

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I've owned a couple of BRG cars, and I heard that green cars had the reputation of being unlucky in the motor trade. Anyone else heard that myth?

Not a myth, I think the stats said that green cars had more accidents than any other colour. Not sure if that was an urban myth stat, but people believed it and green cars did not sell. That was until the metallic BRG MG came out with.