>>Have you got the same trend in the US where most cars are just metallic grey? That seems to be the default colour here. Practically invisible on a grey road at dusk, without their lights on. Now even our cop cars are met. grey with the gaudy decals stuck on. Skodas look weird in owt but this colour (the vast majority of them)
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>>I can imagine Henry Ford nowadays saying "... so long as it's metallic grey."
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>Not only gray, but white, black, gold.

Ugh! Any car with gold on it should be blown up. Esp those with gold wheel rims. I've seen a couple of RRs that just look hideous with an unnecessarily ostentatious gold "spirit of freedom".

>We're shopping for a car for the first time in a long, long time (sadly, our '95 Windstar is on its last legs),

I don't know a Windstar. Is that a horse to draw the buggy (well you did say it's on its last legs)?

>and finding that getting a real color is non-trivial. Of course, finding a car that we want is even more of a challenge. The car is for Marshal and he needs a full-size sedan (5-6 passengers) and wants hybrid or diesel and it's simply not available in the US, except in the $100,000 range.
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>Tamar