>>To me the worst eyesore are all those colorless vehicles. Poor people probably didn't have the money for the color version, so those graphite, dull gray, metallic, drab and whatnot family defense vehicles are everywhere.
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>I know what you mean ... I can't stand silver/grey vehicles. I don't know why people think that's a good "color". Give me a brightly colored, "arrest-me" red, Porsche 911 Turbo any day!! <g>

I made a brief poll on the age-old BBS (yes, one still works!) back home, about year, make and color of cars. The sample I got was just 8, but the only ones which weren't gray were made in the early nineties. Someone offered an explanation that "it can get a bit dirty and nobody would notice". Well, dirt is a problem over there; the structure of the soil is, well, just too rich and it gets everywhere as mud is much more sticky than here. But then, I prefer to have a car which gets a "nice car, but needs a wash", then a car which looks like shi* washed or not.