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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
People choose their colour based on how they think it'll affect resale value. If they pick a punchy colour, that narrows down the demand and brings down the resale price.
It's the same thing with millennial gray.
It's not that people don't want colour, it's that it costs such a huge part of their wealth that they're scared about recouping it.
Peak automotive engineering!
There used to be a sense of whimsy and fun in stuff.
Not just the color. Each make and model used to look distinct and unique. Now they all have the same vague SUV shape. It makes sense aerodynamics and safety standards are a thing but it still feels so corporate and almost dystopian.
But SUVs are neither aerodynamic nor safe (for others)...*
*In comparison with normal cars.
The funnier interpretation IMO is that they’re all trying to be either wagons or minivans while maintaining plausible deniability.
No it’s an SUV! Right right…
They typically look like a mildly used bar of soap on wheels.
bUT My rESalE vAlUe!
Good point. If your car is a crazy color it's resale value will drop
Not always. If you keep that car in good condition and it ends up being a desirable color it it could be considered rare by resale time, you're just rolling the dice when you buy it with that strategy compared to a more common/basic color.
I miss cars that would last for 30 years more than choice of color.
Many people here say that people don't want to be targeted by cops but I don't feel like cops target colored cars specifically. At least where I live I feel like they target stereotypical vehicles, which would mean a combination of brand and model, color, tinted windows, any visible modding etc., and also the body style of the car. For example a gray roadster will have a higher chance to be targeted by the police than a yellow minivan. A modded car will always be stopped more than average.
So the way to not get targeted is to get a car that screams "mother/father of two in an unhappy marriage". Or go to the other extream and get whatever the mafia drives if you have the money. I have never seen a G-class Mercedes stopped by the police.
The target here is vans, black BMW, Audi, Mercedes, and then the grey of the same 3 brands, it became an absolute stereotype
there's a study that shows that car colorfulness is positively correlated to being in a good mood for longer periods of time (i.e. not having depression)
so, car colors reflect the mood of a society. and that they're all gray today is a bad sign.
there's a number of additional signs to read the mood of society. i was told by a colleague that the length of women's skirts is another indication (the shorter the skirt length, the better society's mood is overall).
i also believe that the music they play i.e. in the supermarket is a good indicator. the more love songs on the radio, the better the mood of society. the more break-up songs on the radio, the worse the mood of society.
It's not just cars. Our whole society is grey.
Someone finally decided to call this shit out, I go to any parking lot, and I get depressed by tge uniformity and how bland it looks, 3 colour saturation, white,black and fucken grey, it's depressing af.and don't get me started on the Tesla epidemic, black, white Grey hideousness
Yay let’s make all cars the same colour as the road
Blame this on the car insurance companies. They claim that certain car colors are less likely to be in a wreck.
Also blame car manufacturers. Some colors cost more than others. Check the sticker price next time you're in the market.
Ok, I'll say it. Dogs see blues and yellows, not grayscale. Colorblind is kind of a bad label, as it seems people assume it means all colors instead of blind to a few colors. Humans could be considered UV or infrared colorblind, but we're never described that way.
Well, gray and depressing does fit the times.
Everyone wants a car that blends in so that they are less of a target for cops.
Part of why I drive a Volvo.
If you see a Volvo speeding you think "Gee, that doctor must be in a big hurry"
What you miss is the oversaturated color in earlier photography.
And the desaturated second picture. I’m not saying the point isn’t valid, but it’s certainly been artificially made here.
It's like we live in a world built out of that gray shit inside that Krabby Patty in the one episode.
Literally looking at a car I want to buy and the 4 colors are white, black, grey, and blue. Blue is actually just a cold silver. It barely looks blue.
On my current car, I ended up with white because the only one I saw in blue was charging $1k more than the one I got that had a higher trim package. They called me the day after I signed the purchase agreement to say that they decided to lower their asking price to $2k below what I paid. I still think about that...
Paging through the 80s and 90s car colour options for somewhat mainstream cars like bmw is crazy in comparison to today. Sure they were the expensive paint option but there were hundreds.
There’s some awful colours today (eg you can get 3 shades of grey, red, or the precise shade of yellowish green that a newborn infant leaves in their diaper for a Prius). I say - at least it’s a colour.
You could also get factory colors “custom”. What was available at the dealership was one thing, but they had a host of other color options you could special order. Like upgrading from an AM radio to AM/FM Cassette. You just had to wait for the factory to do a run of that option before your car would get shipped. More options were a la carte and you weren’t forced into trim packages like today that are like cable tv packages - pay for a bunch of shit you don’t want to get the one or two options you do. Want AWD? Sure! But you have to take “premium sound”, floor mats, cargo separator, and exterior trim packages too.
45 years of neoliberal nosediving. Kills all emotion, passion, and personality in pursuit of money.
All the crazy colors and styles originally happened to sell "self expression" because the culture was becoming more anti consumption. Advertisements for most things used to be more matter-of-fact, then they started focussing on manipulating emotions to sell more shit. I guess now the culture is more pro-consumption and status-obsessed, so conformity is what sells now.
Can't stand out. Cops'll notice you.
