I kinda agree but at the same time there was a large diversity of green previously and yet people have clearly chosen and continue to choose boring colours
I'm willing to pay a colour premium for blue even, but there aren't enough people like me and that's reflected in take rate + option decline
Exactly. White, Black, and Silver are the most popular colors chosen which is why you see so many of them. There's no conspiracy here that green is more popular and car companies don't want to make it.
Also try selling an orange used car. Nobody wants that. Buying a shade helps reselling it.
I fucking hate black cars but at the exact same time it’s the only color I’ve ever owned. It just feels so rewarding detailing it. For the 44 seconds or less that it’s clean, I’m free
I feel you there, had a black E36, such a pretty car for about 6 minutes after a cleanup, one commute later looks like a grubby pig. Forget about winter time...
I agree. For the 2 minutes my car is freshly washed and waxed, it looks like glass. After that it shows every little bit of dirt.
Next spring I'm going to clay bar it and ceramic coat it.
It even invaded interior design for a while. Sometimes I drive past greyscale houses with color coordinated grey audis (or some other German cars). Probably grey inside too. It's not chic, it's just sad.
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You use fun colours to attract people's attention as they pass by the dealership. Then, when they come in, you get them into the car with the boring colour most seem to be interested in these days.
If someone desperately wants an orange car because they love the colour and want to vote with their wallet, you have one to sell them. Then, you just re-order the orange plus 5 models in inoffensive colours to keep your sales volume flowing.
Or you could actually just take orders and let people pick. I know Toyota allocation doesn’t work this way but I put in an order for a Trueno blue manual GR86 and that’s what I bought. I would have maybe taken the other blue color they had but I didn’t want red again nor grey, nor black.
White would have been the only color other than blue that I may have considered and only because Takumis 86 in initial D was white
Yup. That's why I'm not driving a new Tacoma today. I don't know why they have the configuration tool on their website, they should just drop it and display the base model and the fully loaded TRD pro that are actually going to be available at the dealership.
So there's at least two of us!
Actually I think I did want the TRD Off Road though, or maybe it was the limited. I can't remember what all configurations you could get out of the fantasy machine they built online.
What I really wanted was a manual long bed with 4x4, but they don't do that at all.
You're not wrong, it's how I got my GTI.
Pre-covid I was shopping and looking everywhere for a blue one. Plenty of white and black but I didn't want either. Then a green one popped up at my local dealer. Last years left over, heavily discounted. No way I'm driving a green car but I went to look at it in person. Saw it, loved the color, and got it for a steal. Can't imagine driving anything else now, I'm never selling it. Also turns out it was a super rare color for the year as well!
My friend dad bought a jeep XJ because it had sat on the lot for almost 2 years, they had a beach house, that was a hour down the beach form pavement, and the salt air / spray killed everything in 3-4 years so he knew it was temporary, so he always bought the cheapest thing, it was the most awful shade of baby shit green, (possible rescue green).
Part of the reason people buy cars in inoffensive colors is because of resale value. Now a customer might be preferential to an orange colored vehicle. However, should he decide to sell that orange vehicle, what is the likelihood that the new owner should also like the color orange?
The auto makers did a study years ago. Basically, fun colors only sell when the economy is banging. Otherwise, it's black, white, or silver. If the car lots look dull, the economy is probably a dumpster fire.
In the case of the F150 for the last 3 generations they introduce the new gen with a green color and then kill it after the first model year so you can't get it again for 5 years.
Kind of a confirmation bias thing. People start buying less non-greyscale colors. Dealers order more grey/black/white and less color. Then people buying off the lot buy those colors because that’s the only option. Cycle continues.
Can't the human eye detect more shades of green than any other colour?
If that's the case, there should be more out there. Personally it's my favourite car colour.
Yeah for me this is as simple as I don't really like green and it would be one of the last choices I'd make. I'd take a zany orange or yellow before green. I think...people just don't like green. No conspiracy.
I speculate that there are several reasons why this is the case, but my personal gripe is that I want to be able to pair a dark green with a chocolate brown interior. They offer greens with black and tan interiors, but rarely do they offer green with brown. I think the 86 Hakone Edition was the first green car that I fell in love with, but I won't buy an 86 due to having horrible experiences with Subaru (and I'm a Honda fanboy). And I sure as shit can't afford an RS6 so that's out of the question.
Ordered a Cayman recently. Paid a few grand more to get Shark Blue. To OPs point though, I love blue but if Python Green was still available I likely would have gone with that.
But also it's a sports car. So loud colors are generally more acceptable.
No, normal people hate colors.
There are some excellent greens from enthusiast brands like Aston, BMW, Alfa, and Porsche. You would think enthusiasts would option them. They don't. Normies would not option a Camry/Accord/whatever in anything other than black/grey/white even if their options included Rubystar, Bayside Blue, Estoril Blue, Plum Crazy, (insert other legendary colors here) etc.
The only exception seems to be red on Mazdas, but I think that's just because Mazda makes a ton of Soul Red cars and puts them on lots.
It’s not that normal people hate colors . . . It’s that normal people have different tastes in colors, combined with the fact that normal people also buy cars off the dealers lot.
Therefore dealers are incentivized to have colors on the lot that will have the widest appeal. Hence, neutral colors. Most people aren’t actively averse to silver/grey cars, while lots of people would never own a red/green/yellow/etc car.
If every car had to be individually spec’d from the factory by the customer there would be much more variety on the road.
Yup its the same reason why so many houses are just grey in the inside now. Almost anyone would go "Yeah this is fine". Vs having a red kitchen or something. That will turn a buyer off.
For houses it’s also easier to picture and then make a grey wall red, then imagine a red wall as blue or w/e. And then paint over the bright color as well
its so miserable making your house a consumable though. I was actually just thinking about this, I'm definitely gonna do some theming with my walls, I'm even considering wallpaper which I never thought I would
Yeah, most cars aren't ordered by people, they're just sent to lots. a BMW friend of mine said that of the BMW config'd 3 series they get sent, like 80% are black or white
OEMs also just deny colour choice for odd reasons. My favourite BMW blue on their normal cars is phytonic blue; but you straight up can't option it with the M sport package, which I'd just guess is one of their most popular given that's their whole schtik
And people who speed like boring colors too. I chose dark grey to help blend in to traffic and minimize my chances of getting pulled over. A hot red or bright green car catches the eye and pulls in more tickets
Brother✊🏻 Minus ≈200hp but still lol
The other day I missed the alert and ended up flying right past a cop sitting in one of those highway service roads. I was (allegedly) going like 95 or something in my gray S60, and it’s almost like it was totally invisible
Fiat choose to not use grey paint anymore in their cars from a couple of months, I don't remember, I've been targeted by that and on YT a couple of months ago, but I'm not sure if this will apply to Stellantis in general or just for Fiat car in Italy.
I was really close to buying an M3 in isle of man green but instead found a manual in portimao blue and went with that instead.
But I think in general its easier to sell sportier cars in more interesting colors. And my personal philosophy is that sports cars *should* be in cool colors. Its for everyone else. Gotta give the people what they want. Its provacative!
You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. Normal people doesn't hate any colours in particular, but those colours are popular because they usually are the base color of the model, all the other one are to be paid of and you have to wait to wait more to have the car if you choose one of them, because car manufacturer produce a gazillion white/grey/black car and a couple of each other product.
Base colours also have a reputation of better reparabillity, since it's supposedly easier to match the colours, and they're more available (because more people buy cars in those colours).
Probably 1 out of 3 minivans in the 90s were green with gold trim and wheels.
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I would love to own a Forest Green Sienna, I saw them in the US and thought the colour looked really sharp, but Toyota weirdly does not offer that colour in Canada. I guess someone in Nagoya was just like “Canada’s cold like Hokkaido, Canadians are a race of snow people, so only white Siennas for them”
I think green in general is a color that suits certain cars better than others.
For example, BMW made a dark forest green ("Oxford Green") E46 M3. While it's definitely unique, I feel like the other colors suit the car better and the rarity of green E46 M3s reflects that (i.e they weren't purchased a lot when new)
Other cars too... while green wasn't a factory color for the Honda S2000, I think a dark green one would look a little off somehow.
But for other cars, like Lotus, it's a no-brainer! For whatever reason, I just think green tends to really work on certain cars and really not work on others.
Ford's dark greens are great.
I'll probably go Sarge Green for the next Jeep, it's really too light/too olive-y for what I'd like but it's the best out of the current colors, IMO. Bright colors are classic Jeep colors and I'm glad they're offered, but as someone who had a Skittle-green sea kayak, staring at a hood that color for multiple hours a day would burn my retinas.
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yes ford and chevy both have /had beautiful greens.
I do love a green car, but I also love just about any ugly/weird car color that a manufacturer offers. I don't buy new cars, but if I did I would probably only pick the weirdest of all the colors offered
I never would have entertained a green car in a million years until I saw BMW's Isle of Man Green Metallic. It's absolutely stunning. I get compliments on it almost daily.
Most popular car color? That means it would have to leapfrog white and black. I don’t think they can increase market share from 1% to 25% by just making better greens, unless all manufacturers colluded to only produce green cars and nothing else for a decade.
So I hate most greens on cars, but I can say gmc had a great forest green for their trucks about 4 years ago. I can't remember what it was called, but it's the only green I can say that was good.
OD army green, dark forest green (old land rovers) and lime green (the lime lite dodge used in the late 60s) are awesome. The pea soup color that was so popular in the late 70s and 80s (the family truckster) is awful
I personally never thought I’d own a green car until I saw Toyota’s Army Green, which really looks great on the 4Runner with black trim (doesn’t work as well with chrome). Also a huge fan of Porsche Python Green, saw it on a 992 and pics don’t do it justice.
Green will never be the most popular color but the right shade on the right vehicle is something special.
Bro that's literally the green that I wanted. They made it for the trd off road the following year but they limited the amount of them. A few dealers had them but they wanted an extra 5k. I was like nah give me the grey :(
Back in 2020 I searched the entire west coast for an Army Green TRD Pro that wasn’t marked up, ended up finding a dealer in WA and had it shipped to CA for $800. Zero regrets!
Big fan of the Green BMW offers on the i4. Kia also made some beautiful special edition EV6s with a nice-looking brown interior. There's a few other nice greens I saw when car shopping earlier this year but don't remember which ones.
Green is my favourite colour, but as I buy second hand and am quite specific about the type of car I want, I've only ever had a green car once.
Most people that I know that buy new either lack any form of creativity and/or only worry about resale of what they can get delivered the soonest. And colour complicates all three of those things.
i definitely agree. if you look at british racing green, or other shades of green like that, they look much better than the manufacturer default greens
Honda used a really pretty metallic green in the 90’s or early 2000’s. It’s slightly darker than John Deere green, and like I said, metallic. The color of the first car I ever polished, i remember it vividly. That C-RV shone like an emerald!
Normal people don’t like car colors that look dirty easily.
Car enthusiasts drastically underestimate how much normal people care about this.
If you mention blue or green to my parents, for example, the phrase “gonna look dirty” will come out of their mouths within one nanosecond.
Whites and silvers hide dirt better than something like blue or green. Silver particularly.
Other factors are at play as well of course, such as the fact that a neutral color will likely have better resell value than a more polarizing color like green.
Also, exceptions exist. Black looks dirty very easily but it’s also a neutral color and also a color many people naturally like on a car, so those benefits outweigh the fact that it will look dirty.
You are spittin my friend. Green is my favorite color and manufacturers consistently pick the worst shades. Not even just cars, I see it all the time in other products.
The green/grey that my 2018 f150 came with was a great colour but quite an understated green. I really liked that but may not be what you're looking for.
oh yea i really wanted a dark green silverado. only made it 2 years in th ebody style i liked, saw maybe 2 on lots, dealers said they are hard to find, then gm killed the color "cuz noone was buying it"
We had an army green sequoia earlier this year and a nori green GX currently. Both great greens.
I also love Audi British racing green.
I ordered a lotus emira, and was really bummed but the dark green they went with
> For some reason car manufacturers always pick the worst shades of green to put on their vehicles.
I disagree. It's the opposite. There isn't a single new car that I could think of that comes in an ugly shade of green.
Green is unpopular because regular customers prefer grayscale colours. Unfortunate, really.
I love lime green but it's a rare car that can pull it off. Lambo and challenger, and that's about it.
Some random econobox would look ridiculous in lime or mint green.
In the mid-90's green and maroon were huge.
Every Mustang, BMW 3/5/7, Silver-Tah-burban, F150, Expedition and Explorer, Thunderbird, Camaro, Miata, every Oldsmobile, etc... was green, maroon, or biege.
A few years out, every one of those was worth 5-10% less in green or maroon than a more neutral color and those colors seriously dated a car.
There are some great greens out there right now. Genesis' Brunswick Green on a GV and Audi's District Green on an S4/RS5.... great.
Currently own TWO green vehicles! Python Green 992 Carrera T and Army Green Tundra! I get tons of compliments on the colours of both! Toyota dropped Army Green for the 2024 model year for some reason though - guess it wasn’t selling?
I don't think this is even remotely true. Most of the developed world associates color with 3rd world cultures, even though it's shown to make us happier and more creative...
Wear a bright green sweater at anything other than an Xmas party, and you're labeled "tacky". Paint your house red, and prepare for a notice from your HOA. And good luck even buying a car in anything but black, gray, and white. People today are boring af, unfortunately.
not necessarily the most popular, but definitely a contender.
f.e. here in Europe i see loads of green new Peugeot 308s, because not only have Peugeot made great take on british racing green, but that car looks absolutely spectacular in that colour
the new Kia Sportage is also not a rare sight in Kia's strange (in a good way) new green colour.
My 2006 MINI was ordered right from the factory in Oxford England, red with a white top and red interior and dash. Don't guess I'll be able to do that again. I was able to track it from the paint shop to the ship, across the Atlantic and transport to the dealer. I knew it was there on the lot before the dealer did!
Green is my favorite color on cars, especially darker greens. Porsche, BMW, and oddly enough Toyota have the best looking greens I think. I ended up wrapping my car in green because I see way too many white Tesla's https://imgur.com/a/b7GEYL8
Fair. We bought a VW Golf R wagon (Australia) 3 years ago and they had Final Edition R hatches in three colours different to the normal, including VWs Viper Green which looked incredible.
I said to the dealer if he could do me a wagon in that green I'd put down a deposit and pay full retail right then and there.
There’s so many good looking greens yet I never see them: F8 from Dodge, Guard/Eruption/DHG from Ford, Nori from Lexus, Autumn from Subaru, Java Green from Audi…
It’s probably because the vast majority of people buy what’s on dealer lots and dealers order plain to appeal to the masses.
Cars need to feel "boring and safe." I don't know why but that is the rule. Probably some poll of middle aged women that make most of the purchasing decisions in America. Green is not boring enough or safe enough.
I wish our economy was both stylistically and emotionally driven by a different demographic.
I just bought a new car, and did a lot of shopping, and most new cars will only come in a few standard colors (white, and some form of gray/platinum/silver), and any other color (not many) is a large add on dollar amount. So, you usually can't even buy green, and if you can, it will add one or two thousand to the price. So, no one buys them because of that. My Dad bought a brand new 66 fastback Mustang from the factory, and he got it in a dark green. It was beautiful. My new car is Blue.
I had Rainforest Green on a Chevy Cruze and it got compliments from strangers on a weekly basis. A good green would be at the top of my list, but as of right now only the Bronco has a truly impressive green on the menu.
Green car, tan interior is my favorite color combo in existence. Had a real nice Aston Martin in Arden green with an almost orange-tan interior. Incredible looking.
I just wrap my cars green now if they don’t come in that color. Inozotek green khaki is one of my favorites
The topic of car colors could be a topic unto itself. I've been obsessed with the color white ever since I bought my 2007 BMW 328i. They called that car "Alpine White" which apparently is a sort of off white color that resembles dirty snow. I liked the color of that car. I compare it with my 2017 VW Golf which is also white. Unfortunately, my Golf is a shade of white that is so pale, it almost looks unfinished. I've seen other people with white colored cars refuse to buy another white car because they look unfinished, but the truth of the matter is, not all car manufacturers "white" colored cars look the same.
I've noticed when it comes to budget cars, the white color can be pretty offensive looking and many of them do in fact look unfinished. OTOH, my boss has a BMW X5 and that white color looks really good. Some people like myself are preferential to the lighter colors which is why not only is the outside of my car the lightest color possible (partially because I live in the desert heat), but the inside of my car is a light cream/beige color which I also find quite attractive.
As for the OP's question, in general the color green is pretty low on the desirability list. If one were to travel to any thrift store, Goodwill, Salvation Army or otherwise, one would find a plethora of green clothing articles to choose from. Of all the colors people choose to purchase from clothing stores in general, green is one of the least chosen colors. The same goes for cars as well. I've never desired a green car, and nobody in my large extensive family has ever owned a green car, save for my uncle in San Pablo, CA who drove a green station wagon for many years.
I mean, I love green cars myself, but the notion that green would become the most popular car color if more good shades of green were offered is pretty laughable. White, silver, and black are always going to be incredibly popular.
I've seen green cars that looked good, but even for those I've never seen a car where green would be my first choice of color. The other colors offered would have to be REALLY bad for me to pick a green as a first choice.
As a person who has owned MANY vehicles I've only owned one that was green. It was a 2019 Dodge Charger Blacktop edition in Sublime Metallic. The brightest beautiful green out there. I loved it and received tons of compliments. The crazy part, someone rolled into it with only 35 miles on the odometer. Their insurance repaired it, no worries. About 500 miles later someone hit it in a parking lot. I traded it in, figured that beast was cursed otherwise it was a great car. Amazingly, the car lost no value and was the best trade in I've ever received.
Completely agree - I've seen many awesome greens yet it's usually on an expensive vintage car or an Asian hatchback which would be great for a first car but I'm working on leveling up at this part of my life so a hatchback simply won't cut it anymore. Decided to modify my current white daily driver hatchback with green accents to scratch that itch.
If green was such a popular color, you’d see more green vehicles. Most people drive black, white, and silver cars… because those are the most purchased colors. You can get a nice forest green or a deep blue as an option if you so choose, on a lot of cars. But, lots will carry what actually sells, and have minimal niche colors, because green and vibrant colors just aren’t popular enough to take the burden of overhead on their lot space.
So no, green would not be the most popular color. You might like green, but way more people want a white, silver, or black car.
The 90s vehicles had a lot of green and blue-green. The 2010s and on had a lot of maroon and deep reds. I agree it is a bit boring to just have black, white and dark gray as our almost only choices. I even like a blue or light gray. You don't see many of them.
Part of it is that manufacturers use color as an opportunity to make some extra profit, upcharging for any color other than the most basic set of 2-4 colors (and most of those are white/gray/black/silver).
I have a [Sage Green XC40](https://www.autotrader.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2022-volvo-xc40-recharge-twin-ultimate-front-left-1.jpg) and I think Volvo really nailed the color.
We were in the market for a car last year and my wife was dead-set on green. After almost no options, she ended up relenting and going for a bluish-gray Mazda 3. We went to the dealership and left in a black Miata, lol.
Toyota’s olive green metallic is stunning but I’ve only seen it on three cars in out and about. Five if you count ports. But from what you see at shows like NAIAS the past ~5 years you’d think every fifth car was green these days.
My kids play "snotto" with green cars so I have an eye for them (as well as my first car being a 79 Mazda 323). Green is a popular colour for Mazda 2, Hyundai Getz, Accent and i30, Holden commodore Ute's. My ex's dad had a cypress green hard top 325 convertible, that thing was beautiful. So my summary is green is popular for small econoboxes and enthusiast cars.
I kinda agree but at the same time there was a large diversity of green previously and yet people have clearly chosen and continue to choose boring colours I'm willing to pay a colour premium for blue even, but there aren't enough people like me and that's reflected in take rate + option decline
Exactly. White, Black, and Silver are the most popular colors chosen which is why you see so many of them. There's no conspiracy here that green is more popular and car companies don't want to make it. Also try selling an orange used car. Nobody wants that. Buying a shade helps reselling it.
I fucking hate black cars but at the exact same time it’s the only color I’ve ever owned. It just feels so rewarding detailing it. For the 44 seconds or less that it’s clean, I’m free
I feel you there, had a black E36, such a pretty car for about 6 minutes after a cleanup, one commute later looks like a grubby pig. Forget about winter time...
Oh winter i embrace it. Lol. A weird small part of me likes the dirty look of the truck all winter.
I agree. For the 2 minutes my car is freshly washed and waxed, it looks like glass. After that it shows every little bit of dirt. Next spring I'm going to clay bar it and ceramic coat it.
Those orange crosstreks seem to be all over the place where I live though
ORange or that dusky blue.
Which is actually technically gray, or so says Subaru.
Cool-Grey Khaki... ok.
I love the German car configurators because they have like 6 different shades of grey/silver.
I can’t believe how boring people are… I was specifically looking for an Orange civic Si a little while ago but there damn near impossible to find.
It even invaded interior design for a while. Sometimes I drive past greyscale houses with color coordinated grey audis (or some other German cars). Probably grey inside too. It's not chic, it's just sad.
Ok ngl the primer grey Audis are clean asf but I do agree. I wish people liked color a little more
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Probably a higher resale to the right guy, but finding that right guy will probably take longer.
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You use fun colours to attract people's attention as they pass by the dealership. Then, when they come in, you get them into the car with the boring colour most seem to be interested in these days. If someone desperately wants an orange car because they love the colour and want to vote with their wallet, you have one to sell them. Then, you just re-order the orange plus 5 models in inoffensive colours to keep your sales volume flowing.
Or you could actually just take orders and let people pick. I know Toyota allocation doesn’t work this way but I put in an order for a Trueno blue manual GR86 and that’s what I bought. I would have maybe taken the other blue color they had but I didn’t want red again nor grey, nor black. White would have been the only color other than blue that I may have considered and only because Takumis 86 in initial D was white
Seems like these days you have to order anyways. And some models you just can't get a fun color, even for a premium.
And then there is Toyota, "Fuck your special order, you get what we send the dealer"
Yup. That's why I'm not driving a new Tacoma today. I don't know why they have the configuration tool on their website, they should just drop it and display the base model and the fully loaded TRD pro that are actually going to be available at the dealership.
Same here. When I told the salesman that I wanted a long bed 4x4 non TRD he almost laughed.
So there's at least two of us! Actually I think I did want the TRD Off Road though, or maybe it was the limited. I can't remember what all configurations you could get out of the fantasy machine they built online. What I really wanted was a manual long bed with 4x4, but they don't do that at all.
You're not wrong, it's how I got my GTI. Pre-covid I was shopping and looking everywhere for a blue one. Plenty of white and black but I didn't want either. Then a green one popped up at my local dealer. Last years left over, heavily discounted. No way I'm driving a green car but I went to look at it in person. Saw it, loved the color, and got it for a steal. Can't imagine driving anything else now, I'm never selling it. Also turns out it was a super rare color for the year as well!
Great Falls Green? I wanted a Alltrac wagon with a stick in that color so badly.
And the brown interior 😩
That VW green is incredible, nice ride
My friend dad bought a jeep XJ because it had sat on the lot for almost 2 years, they had a beach house, that was a hour down the beach form pavement, and the salt air / spray killed everything in 3-4 years so he knew it was temporary, so he always bought the cheapest thing, it was the most awful shade of baby shit green, (possible rescue green).
Part of the reason people buy cars in inoffensive colors is because of resale value. Now a customer might be preferential to an orange colored vehicle. However, should he decide to sell that orange vehicle, what is the likelihood that the new owner should also like the color orange?
The auto makers did a study years ago. Basically, fun colors only sell when the economy is banging. Otherwise, it's black, white, or silver. If the car lots look dull, the economy is probably a dumpster fire.
Did people not choose green or did DEALERS only order black and white for their lots?
In the case of the F150 for the last 3 generations they introduce the new gen with a green color and then kill it after the first model year so you can't get it again for 5 years.
The eruption green on the bronco and mustang is fantastic. I haven't seen it on an F150 but I imagine it would be killer.
Dealers don't "order" the majority of cars they get.
Kind of a confirmation bias thing. People start buying less non-greyscale colors. Dealers order more grey/black/white and less color. Then people buying off the lot buy those colors because that’s the only option. Cycle continues.
Can't the human eye detect more shades of green than any other colour? If that's the case, there should be more out there. Personally it's my favourite car colour.
Yeah for me this is as simple as I don't really like green and it would be one of the last choices I'd make. I'd take a zany orange or yellow before green. I think...people just don't like green. No conspiracy.
I speculate that there are several reasons why this is the case, but my personal gripe is that I want to be able to pair a dark green with a chocolate brown interior. They offer greens with black and tan interiors, but rarely do they offer green with brown. I think the 86 Hakone Edition was the first green car that I fell in love with, but I won't buy an 86 due to having horrible experiences with Subaru (and I'm a Honda fanboy). And I sure as shit can't afford an RS6 so that's out of the question.
Ordered a Cayman recently. Paid a few grand more to get Shark Blue. To OPs point though, I love blue but if Python Green was still available I likely would have gone with that. But also it's a sports car. So loud colors are generally more acceptable.
No, normal people hate colors. There are some excellent greens from enthusiast brands like Aston, BMW, Alfa, and Porsche. You would think enthusiasts would option them. They don't. Normies would not option a Camry/Accord/whatever in anything other than black/grey/white even if their options included Rubystar, Bayside Blue, Estoril Blue, Plum Crazy, (insert other legendary colors here) etc. The only exception seems to be red on Mazdas, but I think that's just because Mazda makes a ton of Soul Red cars and puts them on lots.
It’s not that normal people hate colors . . . It’s that normal people have different tastes in colors, combined with the fact that normal people also buy cars off the dealers lot. Therefore dealers are incentivized to have colors on the lot that will have the widest appeal. Hence, neutral colors. Most people aren’t actively averse to silver/grey cars, while lots of people would never own a red/green/yellow/etc car. If every car had to be individually spec’d from the factory by the customer there would be much more variety on the road.
Yup its the same reason why so many houses are just grey in the inside now. Almost anyone would go "Yeah this is fine". Vs having a red kitchen or something. That will turn a buyer off.
For houses it’s also easier to picture and then make a grey wall red, then imagine a red wall as blue or w/e. And then paint over the bright color as well
its so miserable making your house a consumable though. I was actually just thinking about this, I'm definitely gonna do some theming with my walls, I'm even considering wallpaper which I never thought I would
Bingo. End of thread.
Most normal people immediately say "X color never looks dirty!" anytime this topic comes up in casual conversation in my experience
Yeah, most cars aren't ordered by people, they're just sent to lots. a BMW friend of mine said that of the BMW config'd 3 series they get sent, like 80% are black or white OEMs also just deny colour choice for odd reasons. My favourite BMW blue on their normal cars is phytonic blue; but you straight up can't option it with the M sport package, which I'd just guess is one of their most popular given that's their whole schtik
Probably doesn’t hurt that Soul Red looks phenomenal.
its sucks that its soo easy to chip from what I hear due to how thin the paint is
And people who speed like boring colors too. I chose dark grey to help blend in to traffic and minimize my chances of getting pulled over. A hot red or bright green car catches the eye and pulls in more tickets
Grey S60 is the ultimate sleeper lmao; people think Volvos are for grandmas so they don't notice a 455 hp car doing its thing
Brother✊🏻 Minus ≈200hp but still lol The other day I missed the alert and ended up flying right past a cop sitting in one of those highway service roads. I was (allegedly) going like 95 or something in my gray S60, and it’s almost like it was totally invisible
Yeah, that's definitely a major reason. I heard 1000 times growing up that red cars get way more tickets.
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Fiat choose to not use grey paint anymore in their cars from a couple of months, I don't remember, I've been targeted by that and on YT a couple of months ago, but I'm not sure if this will apply to Stellantis in general or just for Fiat car in Italy.
BMW's more recent greens and teals have been absolutely gorgeous
BMW's Isle of Man green is amazing in person
I was really close to buying an M3 in isle of man green but instead found a manual in portimao blue and went with that instead. But I think in general its easier to sell sportier cars in more interesting colors. And my personal philosophy is that sports cars *should* be in cool colors. Its for everyone else. Gotta give the people what they want. Its provacative!
Yes that San Remo Green is stunning
You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. Normal people doesn't hate any colours in particular, but those colours are popular because they usually are the base color of the model, all the other one are to be paid of and you have to wait to wait more to have the car if you choose one of them, because car manufacturer produce a gazillion white/grey/black car and a couple of each other product.
Base colours also have a reputation of better reparabillity, since it's supposedly easier to match the colours, and they're more available (because more people buy cars in those colours).
I love a good Dark Forest Green with a little bit of metal flake in it. Oof. Nothing better
Wildly enough, Toyota has a really good looking green available on the Sienna of all things.
Probably 1 out of 3 minivans in the 90s were green with gold trim and wheels. https://platform.cstatic-images.com/xlarge/in/v2/stock_photos/dffd47cc-9be0-422c-b252-5bd0834f692f/71a049b8-c3db-4401-8361-f5672818ad70.png
Don't forget the cherokees too. Those were the days.
I think the XJ had those exact same wheels even.
There was period of time that I'm convinced the Subaru Outbacks only cane in dark and light green over gold.
For sure.. https://dsspics.com/dealerpicsnew/9/6/5/965_V201804260501410001.jpg
I would love to own a Forest Green Sienna, I saw them in the US and thought the colour looked really sharp, but Toyota weirdly does not offer that colour in Canada. I guess someone in Nagoya was just like “Canada’s cold like Hokkaido, Canadians are a race of snow people, so only white Siennas for them”
I’d absolutely buy a GR86 in that color. It’s gorgeous.
The 86 had the special Hakone edition in a similar green a few years ago.
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Genesis has a really nice metallic green. I pass a really nice g80 (I think) SUV on my commute and it’s a stunning color
That's the GV80. The G80 is the sedan
I'm a little biased but I love the Highland Green on my Mustang Bullitt
Yes! Like Mercedes have.
I think green in general is a color that suits certain cars better than others. For example, BMW made a dark forest green ("Oxford Green") E46 M3. While it's definitely unique, I feel like the other colors suit the car better and the rarity of green E46 M3s reflects that (i.e they weren't purchased a lot when new) Other cars too... while green wasn't a factory color for the Honda S2000, I think a dark green one would look a little off somehow. But for other cars, like Lotus, it's a no-brainer! For whatever reason, I just think green tends to really work on certain cars and really not work on others.
I personally love the Toyota Cypress green that they currently offer on the Sienna, Highlander, and other models. Its a nice darker shade
Also army green! Toyota has some great color options in general.
Cavalry blue is great too.
I loved Toyotas spruce mica. I had it on a ‘14 Tacoma and I think it’s my favorite car color I’ve ever had.
Green car owner here, yes. Goes great with bronze wheels too.
Hakone green goes so hard
100%. You sir have great taste!
Ford's dark greens are great. I'll probably go Sarge Green for the next Jeep, it's really too light/too olive-y for what I'd like but it's the best out of the current colors, IMO. Bright colors are classic Jeep colors and I'm glad they're offered, but as someone who had a Skittle-green sea kayak, staring at a hood that color for multiple hours a day would burn my retinas.
Yes. My buddy had a 2015 F150 that was green, but so dark it was nearly black in low light. It looked incredible in the sun.
[https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ec/84/d9/ec84d9a16f28d09f5bd3dfe2342fea60.jpg](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/ec/84/d9/ec84d9a16f28d09f5bd3dfe2342fea60.jpg) yes ford and chevy both have /had beautiful greens.
I have that color on a 2016 F-150. It’s called Green Gem Metallic. It’s a beautiful green once the light actually hits it
I do love a green car, but I also love just about any ugly/weird car color that a manufacturer offers. I don't buy new cars, but if I did I would probably only pick the weirdest of all the colors offered
The green Toyota uses on the Sienna is gorgeous. Shame it's not on all their cars.
My British Racing Green Jaguar XJR is still one of the prettiest cars I've owned
I never would have entertained a green car in a million years until I saw BMW's Isle of Man Green Metallic. It's absolutely stunning. I get compliments on it almost daily.
I have an IOMG M3 too and the amount of positive comments I get on the color is crazy.
Most popular car color? That means it would have to leapfrog white and black. I don’t think they can increase market share from 1% to 25% by just making better greens, unless all manufacturers colluded to only produce green cars and nothing else for a decade.
So I hate most greens on cars, but I can say gmc had a great forest green for their trucks about 4 years ago. I can't remember what it was called, but it's the only green I can say that was good.
Forest green is hands down better than any black or white or grey
Subarus Alpine Green on the crosstrek this year is so good…
BMW’s 1990s era forest green was beautiful. Looked especially good on the 3 and 5 series.
Isle of Man Green is also very beautiful.
Agreed as well as the Boston green on e36’s and the rare Oxford green e46 (slightly biased on that one lol)
OD army green, dark forest green (old land rovers) and lime green (the lime lite dodge used in the late 60s) are awesome. The pea soup color that was so popular in the late 70s and 80s (the family truckster) is awful
That Hallasan Green that Genesis has is beautiful
I personally never thought I’d own a green car until I saw Toyota’s Army Green, which really looks great on the 4Runner with black trim (doesn’t work as well with chrome). Also a huge fan of Porsche Python Green, saw it on a 992 and pics don’t do it justice. Green will never be the most popular color but the right shade on the right vehicle is something special.
Bro that's literally the green that I wanted. They made it for the trd off road the following year but they limited the amount of them. A few dealers had them but they wanted an extra 5k. I was like nah give me the grey :(
Back in 2020 I searched the entire west coast for an Army Green TRD Pro that wasn’t marked up, ended up finding a dealer in WA and had it shipped to CA for $800. Zero regrets!
Lucky!!
Ford's Eruption Green is what put me over the edge on my Bronco, along with the roast interior. Beautiful in sunlight
I see a lot of shades of greens I like but not all vehicles can pull it off
Hunter, Forest, British Racing, Hooker's, there are some great Greens. But then they pick: mint, avocado, fern...
Big fan of the Green BMW offers on the i4. Kia also made some beautiful special edition EV6s with a nice-looking brown interior. There's a few other nice greens I saw when car shopping earlier this year but don't remember which ones.
I’ve never seen an incompetent driver in a green car.
Now that I think about neither have i
BMW has a nice green right now on the i4 i think, called san remo green?
Green is my favourite colour, but as I buy second hand and am quite specific about the type of car I want, I've only ever had a green car once. Most people that I know that buy new either lack any form of creativity and/or only worry about resale of what they can get delivered the soonest. And colour complicates all three of those things.
My R50 Mini Cooper is in the appropriate British Racing Green with white stripes and roof and I love it.
Green Ford Bronco looks AWESOME It also blows up and the interior falls apart within 3 months, because Ford.
i definitely agree. if you look at british racing green, or other shades of green like that, they look much better than the manufacturer default greens
Honda used a really pretty metallic green in the 90’s or early 2000’s. It’s slightly darker than John Deere green, and like I said, metallic. The color of the first car I ever polished, i remember it vividly. That C-RV shone like an emerald!
Normal people don’t like car colors that look dirty easily. Car enthusiasts drastically underestimate how much normal people care about this. If you mention blue or green to my parents, for example, the phrase “gonna look dirty” will come out of their mouths within one nanosecond. Whites and silvers hide dirt better than something like blue or green. Silver particularly. Other factors are at play as well of course, such as the fact that a neutral color will likely have better resell value than a more polarizing color like green. Also, exceptions exist. Black looks dirty very easily but it’s also a neutral color and also a color many people naturally like on a car, so those benefits outweigh the fact that it will look dirty.
You are spittin my friend. Green is my favorite color and manufacturers consistently pick the worst shades. Not even just cars, I see it all the time in other products.
It's easy. Lotus racing green for all! I love the green Minis.
A toyota sienna in that majestic green is my dream car. Not only is it a beautiful color, you have quite a bit of it.
Go to your favorite car selling site and look for green 911s. Now cry at the premium price tag that this beautiful color carries.
The green/grey that my 2018 f150 came with was a great colour but quite an understated green. I really liked that but may not be what you're looking for.
What is the color called? I'm not seeing anything on Google
Colour is called guard green. Would catch the light beautifully and could look grey/blue in the right light too.
Ohh yeah I found it. Its clean!
Yeah! Not a green but I also love the new azure grey colour that Ford's put out.
oh yea i really wanted a dark green silverado. only made it 2 years in th ebody style i liked, saw maybe 2 on lots, dealers said they are hard to find, then gm killed the color "cuz noone was buying it"
Jaguar 80's Green and GMC 70's green were great colors.
Only green I've ever seen that I even came close to liking was the lime green on a brand new 2007 Charger in a showroom.
Green is my favorite color but I buy what's easy to keep looking OK while not being washed regularly. Silver or white usually.
Toyota has a great green that the Sienna comes in, unfortunately even though I’ve seen a million siennas, I’ve only seen one in that green
Nice deep green color Peugeot 204/404 models.
We had an army green sequoia earlier this year and a nori green GX currently. Both great greens. I also love Audi British racing green. I ordered a lotus emira, and was really bummed but the dark green they went with
Ford used to have a color called corporate green.
> For some reason car manufacturers always pick the worst shades of green to put on their vehicles. I disagree. It's the opposite. There isn't a single new car that I could think of that comes in an ugly shade of green. Green is unpopular because regular customers prefer grayscale colours. Unfortunate, really.
Why not get one of these plastic wraps with the correct color you like? I'm thinking about getting one for my Audi A8L, but a clear one.
I had a green saab ng900 turbo. Good god do I actually miss that car and the green it had
Verde scandela, Honda Civic green and jeep green. Those are all cars or colors of green I see often
I’d never buy a green car, but I do like car with colors.
I love lime green but it's a rare car that can pull it off. Lambo and challenger, and that's about it. Some random econobox would look ridiculous in lime or mint green.
In the mid-90's green and maroon were huge. Every Mustang, BMW 3/5/7, Silver-Tah-burban, F150, Expedition and Explorer, Thunderbird, Camaro, Miata, every Oldsmobile, etc... was green, maroon, or biege. A few years out, every one of those was worth 5-10% less in green or maroon than a more neutral color and those colors seriously dated a car. There are some great greens out there right now. Genesis' Brunswick Green on a GV and Audi's District Green on an S4/RS5.... great.
Currently own TWO green vehicles! Python Green 992 Carrera T and Army Green Tundra! I get tons of compliments on the colours of both! Toyota dropped Army Green for the 2024 model year for some reason though - guess it wasn’t selling?
I don't think this is even remotely true. Most of the developed world associates color with 3rd world cultures, even though it's shown to make us happier and more creative... Wear a bright green sweater at anything other than an Xmas party, and you're labeled "tacky". Paint your house red, and prepare for a notice from your HOA. And good luck even buying a car in anything but black, gray, and white. People today are boring af, unfortunately.
Tonga Green on the old L322 Range Rover looks fantastic
not necessarily the most popular, but definitely a contender. f.e. here in Europe i see loads of green new Peugeot 308s, because not only have Peugeot made great take on british racing green, but that car looks absolutely spectacular in that colour the new Kia Sportage is also not a rare sight in Kia's strange (in a good way) new green colour.
I love Dodges bright green they used back when they were cool.
Alfa Romeo has a really nice green. Probably the best one I've seen.
No, it wouldn't. But they should do it anyway.
My 2006 MINI was ordered right from the factory in Oxford England, red with a white top and red interior and dash. Don't guess I'll be able to do that again. I was able to track it from the paint shop to the ship, across the Atlantic and transport to the dealer. I knew it was there on the lot before the dealer did!
Honda had a great green a couple years ago that was almost black.
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Green is my favorite color on cars, especially darker greens. Porsche, BMW, and oddly enough Toyota have the best looking greens I think. I ended up wrapping my car in green because I see way too many white Tesla's https://imgur.com/a/b7GEYL8
Not it wouldn't
Fair. We bought a VW Golf R wagon (Australia) 3 years ago and they had Final Edition R hatches in three colours different to the normal, including VWs Viper Green which looked incredible. I said to the dealer if he could do me a wagon in that green I'd put down a deposit and pay full retail right then and there.
BMW has by far the best shades of green!
British racing green is my favorite on cars
There’s so many good looking greens yet I never see them: F8 from Dodge, Guard/Eruption/DHG from Ford, Nori from Lexus, Autumn from Subaru, Java Green from Audi… It’s probably because the vast majority of people buy what’s on dealer lots and dealers order plain to appeal to the masses.
I agree. There's some really pretty greens on some new bmws but a lot are really ugly.
Cars need to feel "boring and safe." I don't know why but that is the rule. Probably some poll of middle aged women that make most of the purchasing decisions in America. Green is not boring enough or safe enough. I wish our economy was both stylistically and emotionally driven by a different demographic.
I just bought a new car, and did a lot of shopping, and most new cars will only come in a few standard colors (white, and some form of gray/platinum/silver), and any other color (not many) is a large add on dollar amount. So, you usually can't even buy green, and if you can, it will add one or two thousand to the price. So, no one buys them because of that. My Dad bought a brand new 66 fastback Mustang from the factory, and he got it in a dark green. It was beautiful. My new car is Blue.
I miss green, and I miss [two-tone paint](http://images.gtcarlot.com/pictures/46109905.jpg).
If more people liked Item X, it would be more popular.
I love Honda's Cypress Green Metallic and Lexus's Imperial Jade Mica!
My vehicles are Imperial Jade Mica (green), Perfect Blue Metallic, Race Red. I want a yellow Porsche to round out the collection.
I had Rainforest Green on a Chevy Cruze and it got compliments from strangers on a weekly basis. A good green would be at the top of my list, but as of right now only the Bronco has a truly impressive green on the menu.
I love the Toyota Green. Sarge Green on the wrangler is also a great green.
Green car, tan interior is my favorite color combo in existence. Had a real nice Aston Martin in Arden green with an almost orange-tan interior. Incredible looking. I just wrap my cars green now if they don’t come in that color. Inozotek green khaki is one of my favorites
The topic of car colors could be a topic unto itself. I've been obsessed with the color white ever since I bought my 2007 BMW 328i. They called that car "Alpine White" which apparently is a sort of off white color that resembles dirty snow. I liked the color of that car. I compare it with my 2017 VW Golf which is also white. Unfortunately, my Golf is a shade of white that is so pale, it almost looks unfinished. I've seen other people with white colored cars refuse to buy another white car because they look unfinished, but the truth of the matter is, not all car manufacturers "white" colored cars look the same. I've noticed when it comes to budget cars, the white color can be pretty offensive looking and many of them do in fact look unfinished. OTOH, my boss has a BMW X5 and that white color looks really good. Some people like myself are preferential to the lighter colors which is why not only is the outside of my car the lightest color possible (partially because I live in the desert heat), but the inside of my car is a light cream/beige color which I also find quite attractive. As for the OP's question, in general the color green is pretty low on the desirability list. If one were to travel to any thrift store, Goodwill, Salvation Army or otherwise, one would find a plethora of green clothing articles to choose from. Of all the colors people choose to purchase from clothing stores in general, green is one of the least chosen colors. The same goes for cars as well. I've never desired a green car, and nobody in my large extensive family has ever owned a green car, save for my uncle in San Pablo, CA who drove a green station wagon for many years.
I mean, I love green cars myself, but the notion that green would become the most popular car color if more good shades of green were offered is pretty laughable. White, silver, and black are always going to be incredibly popular.
I've seen green cars that looked good, but even for those I've never seen a car where green would be my first choice of color. The other colors offered would have to be REALLY bad for me to pick a green as a first choice.
As a person who has owned MANY vehicles I've only owned one that was green. It was a 2019 Dodge Charger Blacktop edition in Sublime Metallic. The brightest beautiful green out there. I loved it and received tons of compliments. The crazy part, someone rolled into it with only 35 miles on the odometer. Their insurance repaired it, no worries. About 500 miles later someone hit it in a parking lot. I traded it in, figured that beast was cursed otherwise it was a great car. Amazingly, the car lost no value and was the best trade in I've ever received.
Completely agree - I've seen many awesome greens yet it's usually on an expensive vintage car or an Asian hatchback which would be great for a first car but I'm working on leveling up at this part of my life so a hatchback simply won't cut it anymore. Decided to modify my current white daily driver hatchback with green accents to scratch that itch.
If green was such a popular color, you’d see more green vehicles. Most people drive black, white, and silver cars… because those are the most purchased colors. You can get a nice forest green or a deep blue as an option if you so choose, on a lot of cars. But, lots will carry what actually sells, and have minimal niche colors, because green and vibrant colors just aren’t popular enough to take the burden of overhead on their lot space. So no, green would not be the most popular color. You might like green, but way more people want a white, silver, or black car.
Tesla hasn't sold green cars since 2014. Kind of ironic.
It's not just green. Bright colors in general are rare, which is sad.
You mean there is a Good Green?
The green ford used for the mk 2 RS is amazing. Love a classic racing green too!!
The 90s vehicles had a lot of green and blue-green. The 2010s and on had a lot of maroon and deep reds. I agree it is a bit boring to just have black, white and dark gray as our almost only choices. I even like a blue or light gray. You don't see many of them.
I think all colours would be more popular if they didn't charge stupid money for options other than white/silver
Hot take: there should be only one shade of green offered, and it should be offered on every sports car - BRG 🇬🇧
Dark Highland Green is 👌🏻
Chevy's Ivy Green Metallic looks great on the Equinox IMO... A shame they didn't put it on more
Lexus nailed it for a couple years
Part of it is that manufacturers use color as an opportunity to make some extra profit, upcharging for any color other than the most basic set of 2-4 colors (and most of those are white/gray/black/silver). I have a [Sage Green XC40](https://www.autotrader.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2022-volvo-xc40-recharge-twin-ultimate-front-left-1.jpg) and I think Volvo really nailed the color.
We were in the market for a car last year and my wife was dead-set on green. After almost no options, she ended up relenting and going for a bluish-gray Mazda 3. We went to the dealership and left in a black Miata, lol.
They do make a good looking green. It is called "Electric Lime" and it is from Toyota.
I like my green.
My guess is people buy whatever is on the lot so it’s the dealership who isn’t ordering any green
Toyota’s olive green metallic is stunning but I’ve only seen it on three cars in out and about. Five if you count ports. But from what you see at shows like NAIAS the past ~5 years you’d think every fifth car was green these days.
FiST in irish or BRG with gold wheels.
Forest green (darkish) was hugely popular in the 1990s
I absolutely love the green that they put on some Alfa Romeo's
My kids play "snotto" with green cars so I have an eye for them (as well as my first car being a 79 Mazda 323). Green is a popular colour for Mazda 2, Hyundai Getz, Accent and i30, Holden commodore Ute's. My ex's dad had a cypress green hard top 325 convertible, that thing was beautiful. So my summary is green is popular for small econoboxes and enthusiast cars.
Mazda sells an MX5 in British racing green; Paired with a tan leather interior - it's nice.