Where Are All These Gray Cars Coming From?

[JSngry]

Is it like this where you are? All of a sudden, just within the last few weeks, three's all these shiny new grey cars rolling around. It's like this is the only color they're selling new cars in now and everybody wants one. What's up with this, is this some stealth invasion force of Shiny Gray Car People Coming To Take Our Black Helicopter Guns????

I mean, seriously, around here, it has been sudden and it has been intense.

How are things in your town?

[paul secor]

I see a lot of them around here. To me, they're depressing to look at. My wife says that she's read that gray cars are least likely to be visible on the road and thus more likely to be involved in an accident. I don't drive a gray car, for whatever that's worth.

[JSngry]

They're all very shiny right now, looks like some kind of nuclear clear coat all over 'em. They're pretty now, actually, but once that clear coat starts to go...

I really can't recall the last time I saw one color of new car pop up all over the place all at once like I have these. It's making me paranoid, like Sinatra must've felt about The Beatles in 1964, only, this is, like cars.

[sidewinder]

Grey metallic was all the rage over here about 10 years ago - and then it switched to white..

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

They may not be grey

We've got a grey car, bought it new in 2009. But it's colour is said to be 'faded denim'. No one in the sales office knew what that was supposed to mean.

MG

[JSngry]

These are like a charcoal grey.

Honda's calling it "Modern Steel Metallic", Toyota's calling it "Predawn Gray Mica"...whatever it is, it's not unattractive, but it seems to be extremely popular all of a sudden. Or maybe it was unpopular last year and everybody's getting great prices on back inventory. Whatever it is, it's like an invasion on these streets out here.I counted 6 at one stop light the other day, all the same color. That's just odd.

 

 

[jazzbo]

I've seen an increasing number of cars in silver to charcoal gray in these here parts.

I have only bought two vehicles in this century, a brand new motorcycle and a brand new car, both black. I had a great uncle (one of the most favorite persons in my life) who only bought black Ford Customs, a new one every three years. . . until his final car, they no longer made Ford Customs and he had to get a Torino, and shockingly in baby blue. I love the way black and chrome looks at night, that's why I chose these two.

Edited October 28, 2016 by jazzbo

[JSngry]

Ford is calling it "Magnetic Grey", so....beware of people with steel plates in their head suddenly crashing into your hood, I guess. It's coming after them, see?

 

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Faded denim is somewhat the same colour. Just... faded

MG

[Scott Dolan]

I'll have to pay attention to colors next time I'm out. I haven't noted a dramatic shift to grey around here. 

[T.D.]

Doesn't seem like that recent a development. I live in somewhat of a "snow belt" in upstate NY, and the gray Honda CR-V, in particular, has been ubiquitous, omnipresent,..., (whatever) for quite a few years.

[JSngry]

I was stopped at a light this afternoon and three in a row came through the left turn lane. Three in a row. Different makes, same color.

I don't recall ever seeing three in a row of the same color before. I watch stuff when I drive, and that's something I would notice.

7 hours ago, Scott Dolan said:

I'll have to pay attention to colors next time I'm out. I haven't noted a dramatic shift to grey around here. 

I'm trying to get my wife to look for cars with dual exhaust. She's resistant. But hell, details!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I've GOT to ask. What's so interesting about dual exhaust on cars, that you have to put your Missus under pressure?

MG

[JSngry]

Put her under pressure? Hardly. Just like pointing it out to her while we're driving, a variation of the license plate games that kids play. She's not much for games while riding but hell, let her drive then, I'm ok with that, welcome it, actually.

What's "interesting" is how some are designed into the body, some are underneath the body, some cars that look like stodgy family cars have it, some that look like real speed machines don't, etc.

Picked the habit up from riding with a buddy of mine who's a real street-racing kind of guy, he'd point out the cars that looked tame but had some stealth punch, and finally got one himself, a Suburu thing that looked like a totally boring suburban dad car but will pin you back when leaving from a red light or going towards an open spot on the freeway.