No, it's just a crap colour. Its the same colour as the road. The same colour as fog. The same colour as John Major. A similar colour to dirt. It's boring, nondescript, and just, errr, nasty.

Well with brilliant indisputable facts like that, how can I argue 😉

That's the thing about colours. Not everyone agrees…

red is the colour of wannabe boy racers, wannabe Ferrari (Ducatti in your case I guess) owners and so on.
blue is the colour of corporate wannabes.
green is the colour of closet BNP voters who like the idea of it being BRG
yellow is the colour of LOOK AT ME I'M INTERESTING Kerazzy people

and so on. We can all come up with stupid stereotypes based on our own preferences…

A similar colour to dirt.

Do you have a big silver machining factory near you?

Started out agreeing with nickc's WGAS-o-meter, but BD has proper blinged up this thread 🙂

If it was my money I wouldnt go near white. However I love yellow cars

That's your opinion discounted then, hora! 😀

But, before you go, Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Ukrainian, Aremnien or Uzbek for your £20 round the back of the bus station?

What other colours does the car come in?

Usual array – couple of blues, red, green, silver, grey, black and two(!) whites.

The problem is that, while we wanted blue or red, they don't have the stock, and nor does anywhere else it would seem. They have a white one on the forecourt.

Apart from looking like I wanted one of those iPod inspired Golfs with the red trim on the grill but had had to settle for a Mazda, I don't wash cars very often, so white and black are real non-starters.

Of course, you couldn't fit many East European Ladies of the Night in one of these, but they are so cute, and Michael Schumacher has one:

The one thing you do need to do is NEVER wash the car. Dirty cars look good. For some reason all my cars seem to take forever to pickup dirt

Might be worth phoning another dealership and see if they can get you one, dealers are always keen to clear what they have already.

Check it is the same spec and model year as what you have ordered too because registration often has nothing to do with when the car was made!

Or haggle a discount for taking the car they have now.

From my previous experience of selling cars I'd suggest that anything expensive or a well known quality make should be in either silver or any dark metallic colour, blue, grey etc.

Don't but an expensive car in white, it will affect it's resale.

You're narrowing down the market of who will buy it next. Stick with a popular common colour, not a current fashionable one.

The fact that they only have the white one left should tell you all you need to know 🙂

Stick with a popular common colour, not a current fashionable one.

I'm pretty certain that most car manufacturers have had white in the colour charts, since, oooooh, forever really…

Shandy, tricky one.
Turbo – White
GT3 – Pale Blue
GT3 RS – Orange with Orange Alloys

Lambo – Lime green

I'm never going to buy a new car so TBH colour is the bottom of the list of what I look for (which is why my car is purple). But if you (or your wife) are set on getting a new car I'd haggle a better deal on the white one.

A Mazda 3? Do people under the retirement age actually buy them? 😐

depends how you view your car – to me its transport – long as its mechanically sound it could be any colour it wants !

i drive a white van because it was cheap – and everyone knows white vans are faster innit ! esp with the 25 added BHP for a copy of the star or sunday sport and a glass bottle of irn bru on the dash

A few years ago we got a bloody good deal on a white Astra because of the colour.So are they trendy now then ?Better tell our daughter because she's driving it now .We've now got a black car that is a darn site harder to clean than the white one ! 👿

Might be worth phoning another dealership and see if they can get you one, dealers are always keen to clear what they have already.

Done. They claim they can get one, but I'm not so sure.

Check it is the same spec and model year as what you have ordered too because registration often has nothing to do with when the car was made!

Spec is easy – Mazda don't do options (except leather on this one – would seem appropriate given the trade of BD's proposed passengers)

Or haggle a discount for taking the car they have now.

Have asked the quesiton. I've already discounted them on the car ordered so they're not making any money on it. The (white) one they have has the leather upgrade, so I'd be expecting them to make more of a loss if we take it.

i;'ve just had a look out of the window. Of the 13 cars I can see, 7 are silver, 3 are dark blue, 2 are dark green and one is black.

I can see Peterpoddy's point actually. They all look pretty boring.

Bring back the Seventies!

Hmm. It might be white with a decent discount.

Orange cars are lush too. Even the orange Fiat Pandas

That mk1 Escort is nice, think that was Sebring Red. I used to have an Escort 1300e in that colour with a vinyl roof 8)

trouble is talkemada, although cars in the seventies were available in those colours, people actually bought "prosthetic limb" cream, and "diarrhea" brown…

Mrs P's TT is white and it looks the dogs.

Way better than boring silver anyway – here's the most excellent sniffpetrol Audi colour chart.

Though this was my first proper car – now that's what I call a colour! – never lost it in a car park.

White are used by companies for thier service vehicles as it is supposed to be clinical and technicians have to use them.
Look at all the company service cars and vans on the road (White) so that a lousy manager can give the driver a rolliken if not clean.
Had white cars for years glad to see the back of them.

Get one like this and everyone's happy!

"prosthetic limb" cream, and "diarrhea" brown

LOL! I remember a mate crying, because his dad bought a 'sh1t brown' Cortina. Poor lad.

Good to see that colours are coming back into fashion. On that topic, a couple of years ago, it seemed that every bike in the shops was either black, white or a shade of grey. Marin, especially, seemed to suffer from the 'Audi Effect'.

Way better than boring silver anyway – here's the most excellent sniffpetrol Audi colour chart.

Effing brilliant! Classic! PMSL!

Silver/grey is boring. For people that have given up on life. It just can't be disputed.

OK, there's a (very) few cars that look nice in silver – A Merc for instance.

Fek, I'd have another diesel before I'd have a silver car. And that's saying something!

But c'mon –

or

I rest my case. 🙂

It's a very good point, and one well made.

I know it's not true for you PP (having met you) but people who judge others on their colour of car as being boring are giving away far more about themselves…

Sorry but a car as an extension of your personality is just a stupid generalisation that is born of the 'car-is-king' status symbol thinking that's frankly, sad. I could just as reasonably say that you're boring if you have white toilet paper or a silver watch or anything else that I choose.

Sorry but a car as an extension of your personality is just a stupid generalisation that is born of the 'car-is-king'

Aye, I mean. My name is Syed hora Khalid now is it?

I reckon some cars look good in white.. the new Prius for example looks pretty smart. White with black bits.. lovely. I'd have one. I'd definitely trade free leather for whiteness.

Can we see pics of the car?

Btw grey cars being the colour of the road IS significant. I almost pulled out infront of a grey car whilst on my bike once because it was coming around a small roundabout with a tree in the middle of it on a very sunny day. Bright sun all around, and the car was in the shadow of the tree when I glanced around. I glanced again before moving and suddenly this grey car appears.

Apparently red cars are involved in fewer accidents. Having said that, the new style Passats look awful in red, dunno why.

You need to consider if the resale value is important to you.

Most white cars do not hold their value as well as the usual metallic colours.

The exceptions are some sporty cars such as a Golf GTI as mentioned earlier in topic and ST's etc etc.

If it was my money, it would be boring silver or a dark metallic such as grey or blue; as these will be worth more when you come to PX it.

Colour is such a personal choice and everyone is different, but white will knock it's value by a few £££'s.

The benefit of a white car is…. drive with your lights on and cars/drivers move over for you when You're motoring along the fast lane. 🙂

Apparently red cars are involved in fewer accidents. Having said that, the new style Passats look awful in red, dunno why.

Like to see the Stats on that. worked out proportional to the amount of red% versus total versus % in accidents?

Saw a white Panda tonight -that looks nice in white.

So to summarise, cheeky small cars and supercars look great in zany colours whereas average/medium shopping hatch cars suit standard colours better.

You gotta admit, white or red have to be better for visibility.

What woudl you wear on your bike? They don't make hi-viz vests in dark grey, do they?

The new BMW M3 V8 is available in white and it looks stunning – and I'd love one. I'll have to stick with my "boring silver" 330Ci until I win the lottery though 😥

330? Hadge would you like a lover*/chauffeur 😉 😆

*admittably Im a bit ropey-looking.

Not usually a fan of White cars, but the new VW Scirocco looks superb in White. Though the lime green one does rather float my boat too…

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I need to cleanse my imagination of horrid white cars

White- missed the boat by two years. Now over done and will start to become cheaper and tackier over the next year.
If you've got a white car- Nice in fashion. Stylish etc. If you bought it 3yrs ago- well done, nicely ahead of the game, should sell well.
But to buy a white car now, then sell in 3 yrs…not easy.
New Audi cataglogue promoting red (metallic) as new colour- sounds risky but makes sense. I rembember loads of white cars in the 80s (my D-reg 309 was white) but red was the colour of early 90s.

Black, Grey, Silver- Yawn. But most sensible financially. Will always sell easily.

Car colour trends are massively dictated, albeit subconciously by the economic climate….

White, silver etc = bad times
Red = good times

Hopefully then red will have the best re-sale value in 3 years.