Battleship Grey Gloss painted cars everywhere

[Coelacanth]

What's the deal with the recent proliferation of cars painted Battleship Grey Gloss? It seems every manufacturer has a car repping some form of single-stage grey gloss paint these days. "Agreeable Grey" I'll call it. It just makes me think of the days when cars came in many bold colors; of course Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth had the "high impact" color choices...but most manufacturers these days haven't got the balls to offer anything other than black, white, silver and maybe red, but I don't remember cars ever being painted non-metallic gloss grey until recently. Agreeable Grey must be trendy among car buyers nowadays...

 

[T Brashears]

And gray houses are popping up more. Take away all the colors,make everything look the same.you can have any color you want as long as it’s gray. Practice marching in lockstep.

 

[copper67sat]

There were a lot of gray cars around here a few years ago, but I don't see as many now. Bought my wife a new Durango 2 yrs ago and it was very hard to find anything that wasn't black, white or gray. Can't stand the gray ones.

She got lucky and found the only red one within 100 miles at the local dealer.

 

[Kern Dog]

I mean the following as no intentional insult to anyone.
I find many these bland colors to be extremely boring. Yeah, black, white or 20 different shades of silver seem to be the default color choices for the masses. The silvers or metallic grays are not as bad but that flat gray looks like a clear coat over gray primer. Some people love it. I don’t.
In the musclecar era, it was GREEN.
Many of new car buyers just buy what is on the dealers lot so you’re at the mercy of what is available.
I can’t drive a car or truck with any color that blends in. I like a vibrant hue like this

 

[3sloppydogs]

Some call it destroyer gray.
I call it boring along with black,white and silver variations.
Give me real colors
My challenger is blue pearl, my ram truck is copperhead, my charger is burnt orange and the coronet is red
I like colors
Problem is I am color blind so what I see is not what you see usually

 

[T Brashears]

Girlfriend came home with a plain white charger on lease,I told her I was going to make police car numbers and stick them on it. She took it back and got battleship gray,said it was all they had left. Had to look at it for two years. She got a b5 this time!!!

 

[T Brashears]

I also hate the pale colors that resemble clear coated chalk.

 

[Billccm]

Reflects the sentiment of the public.

 

[Dennis H]

Yeah, color is a problem. Ended up with 2 this color just to avoid black, white, or gray. No high impacts were available.

 

[tmaleck]

What's the deal with the recent proliferation of cars painted Battleship Grey Gloss? It seems every manufacturer has a car repping some form of single-stage grey gloss paint these days. "Agreeable Grey" I'll call it. It just makes me think of the days when cars came in many bold colors; of course Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth had the "high impact" color choices...but most manufacturers these days haven't got the balls to offer anything other than black, white, silver and maybe red, but I don't remember cars ever being painted non-metallic gloss grey until recently. Agreeable Grey must be trendy among car buyers nowadays...

Don't forget the 50's Gray was popular then too. It all comes and goes. I don't care for it but it's what people are buying. Make what you will of it but it's just a lame color choice IMHO.

 

[Dennis H]

Like black wheels. They are hip for the moment. That’ll change.

 

[dadsbee]

Hey, everyone has their liking and hates. Some of us can't do Green......

 

[T2R9]

Not my cup of tea as I had enough after years in the Navy. What really makes me wonder is the people buying the baby **** brown trucks!

 

[AR67GTX]

My wife went through a series of gray and silver cars in the 80s, 90s and early 2000. She kept getting rear ended, hit in parking lots and even nearly direct head-on hit going around a curve in our neighborhood once. It finally dawned on us that those gray and silver cars nearly match and blend into weathered asphalt and concrete pavement and people who aren’t completely alert just weren't seeing her. So she switched to a black car in 2012 and a white one in 2020 and although she is still backing challenged, no one has run into her since.

It even extended to me when I bought a graphite 2008 Mustang GT. One morning I was tooling down a sweeping street in front of a school at about 30 mph and a teacher coming the other direction made a full speed left turn right into the front driver side fender and door of it, knocking me off the road and totaling the car. The cop looked at it and said he thought I was lucky to be alive. No explanation other than she just didn’t see me. And what did I do - stupidly fell in love with a 2012 silver, 6-speed GT that I couldn’t resist. Wish I still had it.

 

[tmaleck]

Hey, everyone has their liking and hates. Some of us can't do Green......

Hey Now!

 

[Dennis H]

Linda doesn’t like Green buy I’da bought an F8 Redeye had one been found.

 

[Kern Dog]

Hey, everyone has their liking and hates. Some of us can't do Green.....

My red car was originally F8. I hated the color for most of my life but nostalgia has caught up with me. I find the color much more appealing now that the gray hairs on my head have taken the majority.

 

[70ChargerRT]

Ain’t no way Grey beats the number of 70-71 Cudas I’ve seen in Lime Light Green.

 

[padam]

When you’re looking for cars, being restricted to one color really cuts down your choices. My wife has to have red…

 

[33 IMP]

My favorite color scheme EVER, is coral and gray on 55 chevies. Mopar and Ford did similar, a year or three later.
So, I had my Tina painted a dark metallic gray, was going to add a pink (coral) accent stripe, never got around to it.
I now own four red cars, even though I don't particularly like red. Oh well.....