TOP 10 AWESOME OE COLOURS
When did the world turn greyscale?
Look out of the window right now, we can guarantee that about ninety-percent of the cars you can see will be white, black or silver. Where’s the fun in that? It used to be the case that the most popular choice was ‘resale red’, but the buying public are far too conservative these days.
That’s not to say that manufacturers aren’t having their fun, of course. While the Smiths next door may be most likely to spec their Qashqai in something anonymous and inoffensive, there are still plenty of unusual paint shades populating the colour charts if you dig deep enough; the enduring popularity of matte and satin finishes means that BMW will happily sell you an M4 in Frozen Grey, Bentley offer a host of premium satin hues, while Ferrari reckon their new matte red option isn’t for aesthetics, but is in fact ‘a weight-saving measure’ (yeah, right). On the shinier side of things, bright yellow’s made a comeback – you can buy a Nissan Juke in the same shade that British Telecom used to paint their vans in the eighties, for some reason – although the overriding enthusiasm among the buying masses these days is for grey. People just can’t seem to get enough of it, it was the number-one best-selling colour in 2018, and it looks to be topping the charts this year too. But there’s more to paint than fashions and fads… here’s our pick of the top ten coolest ever OE colours. And this really took some narrowing down – we could have done a top ten of the blues alone; Mazda’s Mariner Blue, Nissan’s Bayside Blue, Audi’s Nogaro Blue… but
