Conference terri::cars_uk

    About time too, I like the purple Corsa's.
    
    Andy

>       purple Corsa's.
    


****YUCK****

    
    
    The new BMW M3 comes in bright yellow (amongst other colours).
     

    
    
    There's a yellow BMW M3 that can regularly been seen (as it speeds 
    past!) on the A329 Bracknell area.  I did'nt like the colour at all
    at first, but I like the car in general so much I would'nt complain 
    if it was given to me!  The guy who drives the car works for BMW and 
    so its probably not his anyway,
    
    Wayne. 

    
    Speaking of yellow,Some guy who lives in Pangbourne has a bright yellow
    MR2.
    
    YUK!
    
    Nearly as bad as purple Corsa!
    
    Andy

    The Calibra is a limited edition SE2. Available in yellow, yellow or
    yellow.
    
    Nice.
    
    Kris

	Purple is definitely the "IN" colour for all the Renault Twingo's I saw 
on the Continent last month - that car is quite popular over there.

	Maybe there should be a Twingo Topic.

				Malcolm.

    �Maybe there should be a Twingo Topic.
    
    By all means start a Twingo topic but as I understand it there are no
    plans to make it available in the UK in the near future (if at all).
    
    Apparently the demand for "purple" corsas is much higher than Vauxhall
    expected. I wonder if this will improve the resale value of purple
    corsas or have the reverse affect if it is just a 'fashion'.
    
    Royston

    Is the "demand" the whim of Hertz, Avis, EuroDollar etc ?
    
    I hired an Aquamarine Blue Corsa yesterday, I didnt choose the colour.
    Only those who buy new genuinely choose the colour. Maybe the hire
    companies want to be able to identify their cars, or perhaps they've a
    keen sense of humour. I remember the lilac Avengers of years ago, they
    were all fleet cars.
    
    As for Aquamarine, not my favourite colour.
    
    Tony.

    
    
    	Re.   .4
    
    
    	I have a customer who works for BMW, he also has a bright yellow
    	M3......maybe BMW cant shift them and have to give them out as
    	company cars !
    
    
    	Graham.

>    I hired an Aquamarine Blue Corsa yesterday, I didnt choose the colour.

I had an aquamarine blue Astra from a hire company for a couple of
months once.  The colour clashed with mud quite well, it looked
completely disgusting when it was dirty!

Chris.

It seems that yellow is at least trendy if not even fashionable: apart from
yellow Ferraris (is yellow second "official" colour after red?) and Lamborghinis,
I saw yellow Alfa Romeo Spiders (in the last version) with yellow hard top. 
Then I attended the presentation of the last BMW 3 convertible in Rome and the 
car's colour was (guess what?) yellow.

Some weeks ago Fiat released the first pictures of the new coupe' and, yes, the
colour is again yellow.

Saturday I went to see the new Fiat Punto and all the delears (at least in 
Italy) were provided with test cars painted with a very unusual metallic yellow.

Anyway I like it: I was getting bored of all these metallic grey cars. And, 
after all, yellow is the safest color when you are driving in the fog... ;-)

	Vic

    Guess the colour of the new Lotus being test-driven last night on Top
    Gear.  Yep. Yellow.
    
    Kris

    I think Yellow is the official colour of Team Ferrari (S.F.), Red is
    the racing colour of Italy. I may be wrong but the Ferrari badge
    depicts a prancing horse on a yellow background...
    
    The new trend for yellow sports cars was created by accident by RUF.
    They paint their customers cars yellow and then red as it gives a
    better red - one customer walked into the paint shop to see his new CTR
    and liked the yellow so much that he kept it that way. His particular
    car featured in quite a lot of mag.s / shows in the mid 80's and
    popularised yellow as a colour - or so I'm told.

Remember these ???

	- Sebring Red - Bright Orange

	- Daytona Yellow - Bright Yellow

	- Le Mans Green - Vivid Lime Green

These are classic Ford colours for the Mk1 Capri,
I wonder if the new colurs have such racy names.

				G.P

    I used to have one of those apricot (that's bright orange to you and
    me) coloured Hillman Avengers...
    Fortunately, I was spared the white vinyl roof !
    
    Stephen

    
    
    	I had a........interesting, "Summergirl Green" Mk2 Capri 3.0,
    
    	it would probably be quite trendy now..............maybe not !
    	
    	Graham.

I always knew my '73 Daytona Yellow Capri GT would become trendy again. :-}

Pity I sold it, along with the loons, platform boots, and Jason King moustache,
side-burns, and afro-wig.



T.

    Sold them ?
    But how will we recognise you ?

C'mon Rob

Us fashion victims are always the ones that stand out in a crowd.
Up to the minute, leading edge, out in front.

I'm the one with the swash-buckling shirt, leather jeans, war-paint across the
bridge of my nose...


T.

    And a monkey in your tree...
    
    I saw that guy on TV, rather amusing I thought..