Why are caravans and that always white?

And camper vans. You know, the big plasticcy ones called Nomad, or Sprite or Freedom or Leisure Plus or some such.

I saw a cream caravan today which made me think the owners must be real risk-takers to pick such an extroverted colour scheme.

Why aren’t some red or green, like cars for example?

Some white caravans recently…

Try a black van on a sunny summer day…

They used to be beige back in the day. White is better.

Its so all the little pieces show up when they’re scattered across 3 lanes of the motorway!

TAB caravans are some fun colours

caravans / campers have a pretty long working life compared to cars. White doesn’t fade.

White also doesn’t tend to show up ripples and the inevitable surfacing imperfections that go hand in hand with the basic (cheap) fibreglass molding techniques

Dunno but I do notice we look like a really odd fish at campsites being parcel force red.

White pigment is relatively cheap also, if you’re going to use tonnes of the stuff colouring plastics and fibreglass.

I always put it down to how hot any other colour would get on the continent

Are they white though?

They all look like public toilets to me… even the ones with green mould on the roof and top edges of the sides.

Down this way it’s now a fashion statement if you have a flapping awning thing hanging off the front of it whilst it’s being towed..

3 of them on the M27 on Friday morning, flapping happily in the pissing deluge we had..

Coloured fibreglass and plastic fades, they’d end up looking awful in short order.

White’s tend to yellow, a cream colour would remain closest to the original colour. That of a metallic silver, more colour fast in most cases.

The heat effect is massively overrated. It more a combination of conservative market who don’t like change and if you supply one colour it’s cheaper. I bet the comment about fibreglass imperfections is a bonus  too.

Bird shit

Racism

Because if they were yellow mice might mistake them for huge pieces of cheese.

I love the names they have. We play a driving game where we prefix every caravan name with ass and see who can spot the funniest…

Ass Intruder, Conquerer, adventurer etc..

My van is black with a black canvas (pop top). Currently in Tuscany where temps have been 37°C at times.

Not sure how much of a differnce sitting inside a white box would make compared to a black box, but *-#k me it’s hot!

When choosing the van the main criteria were not white, not silver and not blue.

On the overhand we were in Sicily two years ago in December and the van was definitely warmer inside than out….

I love the names they have. We play a driving game where we prefix every caravan name with ass and see who can spot the funniest…

Ass Intruder, Conquerer, adventurer etc..

Mines an Ass Pegasus!

Alpin, the difference would be huge. I have a black car, silver van and the gf’s car is green. In the recent hot weather parked in the same location, the black car gets insanely hot compared to the other two.

Periwinkle blue for me Ma..

And a pair of dem shoes…

The black thing heating the van up is nonsense, and in any case it’s irrelevant…you’re not sitting in the van during a hot sunny day…the point of them is to get out into the country to experience the country….and at night a black van will radiate heat better than white.

Colours are fashionable, so I guess white is a classic colour so they don’t go out of fashion. Having said that motorhomes do seem to be coming in different colours these days…all pretty safe like Navy Blue, metallic grey/silver, things like that so pretty long lasting.

It it bothered you that much there is always Airstream…if your wallet stretches.

Wouldn’t know to be honest , the outside of hotels are usually a cream /white with brown/beige borders though.

White also doesn’t tend to show up ripples and the inevitable surfacing imperfections that go hand in hand with the basic (cheap) fibreglass molding techniques

Or aluminium sheet, which is what most small ‘vans are made from, on a wood frame. Bigger ones use fibreglass. It’s one reason a ‘van becomes matchwood when it turns over on a motorway, they’re not the most rigid structure going.