Is white overdone/passe as a color? Especially in minivans?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know why car manufacturers don't use more forest or emerald green. I'd love that as an option. Chocolate brown, Indigo, Turquoise, Sunshine yellow...

White is awful. Black is funereal. Grey is depressing.

I had a co-worker who drove a turquoise minivan in the mid 90s--remember that turquoise color that was really popular back then? Or maybe it was "teal." I was actually just talking about that with my husband a few days ago, how dated that color would look now.

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Another one here who loves blue cars. I would do blue, silver, gray or black before white. White minivans and SUVs always look like refrigerators to me.

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White cars are easier to see in twilight.

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I must be old because some times I have a hard time seeing black/dark grey cars driving on the road. They blend into the pavement and I can’t tell how fast they are going and sometimes they appear out of nowhere! Same with silver cars, in certain lighting, they blend into the clouds in the sky. So I would definitely get white to ensure visibility to other drivers.

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Anonymous wrote:I have driven a white car and a black car and if there was a difference in heat in the car it was not noticeable. If a car sits in direct sun on a hot day it will be hot. If you can park it in the shade or it's not as hot outside it will not be. I think perhaps because virtually all exterior colors have a lot of reflective particles in them the color may nont matter as much.

What DOES matter is the color and material on the seats. If you have a white car but dark colored seats then they will get hot sitting in the sun. Even with the UV on the windows. Leather seats are usually also hotter to the touch because of the smoothness of the surface though I vastly prefer leather to fabric.

Currently drive a dark blue car with light leather seats. Car itself is no hotter on a hot day than my old white car and the seats are actually a bit cooler as the old car had black leather seats that were scalding.

Agree with this comment.

I had a white car when I first moved to Florida and then later on, a dark green car. There was no difference in temperature when getting into the cars.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know why car manufacturers don't use more forest or emerald green. I'd love that as an option. Chocolate brown, Indigo, Turquoise, Sunshine yellow...

White is awful. Black is funereal. Grey is depressing.

I had a co-worker who drove a turquoise minivan in the mid 90s--remember that turquoise color that was really popular back then? Or maybe it was "teal." I was actually just talking about that with my husband a few days ago, how dated that color would look now.

I saw a teal Honda at the dealership.

I am sad that 80% of cars are greyscale now, but I’m part of that trend because no one wants color in my family but me.

https://www.iseecars.com/most-popular-car-colors-study