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following recent threads, will be ordering a new car in next few days and surprised that mrs iainc and juniors reckon that [s]jobby[/s] 'java brown' is the 'cool colour' to have now.
I have always associated brown with beige and grandparents 🙂
Looking around it does, indeed, seem to be a growing trend.....not sure I am ready to embrace that yet !
so who has a brown car, and let's see it in its turd resembling grandness ... 🙂
Does it have a vinyl roof?
^^^ 🙂 err, no...
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Are you leasing ? If so, knock yourself out.
If it's your own money bear in mind you'll get f$%k*d at sale / trade-in time as it'll be horribly unfashionable by then.
^^yeah, it's on a PCP so will be handing it back after 4 yrs.
That Capri is quite retro cool 🙂
The only brown car I'd drive is this -
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I looked at one in a Volvo garage at the weekend.
Just looked like a massive metallic jobbie.
A friend of mine has one; we all call it the poo car. Ours is a sophisticated form of humour.
Kojak?
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I had a shite brown Daf33 variomatic back in the late 80s- I bought it for the novelty value as it was so uncool (and only £100)
Nowadays ... Nah but having said that I though white was so cool mid eighties and then very uncool up until recently and I would consider one
Brown? Nope
i saw a metalic brown berlingo and thought .... nice colour.
I saw the self same car resplendant in road grime and it looked like a giant turd.
I wouldn't buy one because i never clean my cars 😀
I had an old Peugeot 306 that was described as metallic brown but just looked light gold to me.
My first car was a poo brown Opal Ascona, with complimentary camel-diarrhoea brown interior. Lovely...
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Brown makes even a Daytona look dull. Don't do it.
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No!
yes, keep 'em coming so I can send her this thread 🙂
Java Brown:
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Sales of brown cars are in massive decline - it was 'retro,' it came back, it's dead.
Guaranteed to make any car look like shit.
You're getting a new car Iain, you never said 🙂
Roll on 2020 when the whole 'what car' thing starts again.
Anyway is brown not the new white?
This is the only brown vehicle I'd consider
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Friends always referred to my car as beige:
A 'friend' has one of these in this colour!
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I like crappy colours such as the OP's, means cheaper cars for me down the line. Currently rocking a gold car. Makes me sick just to look at it but saved a fair chunk when we got it.
you see, I think that Range Rover colour is actually really nice...maybe I am a lost cause 🙂
My current car is grey, previous was dark blue....
Does baby pooh brown count?
Not mine but I saw it recently in Hebden Bridge.
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Parents had one of these only the 2 door version.
It was a tank and I first started driving in it.
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you see, I think that Range Rover colour is actually really nice...maybe I am a lost cause
Its very fashionable, but like anything very fashionable, it will go out of fashion and then people will laugh at it!
agreed, but they said that about white cars, what, 5 or 6 years ago, and they still seem to be most popular colour for new ones...
My grandad had a "Russett Brown" Austin Allegro. Which says all I need to know about brown cars.
He reckoned it would hide the dust and dirt. In hindsight, I think they just put too many letters in 'russett'.
agreed, but they said that about white cars, what, 5 or 6 years ago, and they still seem to be most popular colour for new ones...
Surely the most popular colour is silver? I've been looking at new cars lately and the colour choice is invariably one each of white, black, blue, red, and 37 different variations of metallic grey. It's like we've turned into a nation of John Majors.
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Oi! I had that car as a teen in the early 1980's and it's bronze, not brown. It's a fine example of the classic Ford Capri mark II. I had a much nicer, wider set of wheels on mine (but no furry dice).
However, brown cars do always make me think of the Austin All-Aggro which my dad showed an interest in when i was living back at home.
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We persuaded him against it and got a nice mk III 2L Cortina instead.
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Perhaps iainc could change his username to geneh?
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The brown car of choice
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Had one of these as my first car
Snap!
1.3 litres of twin-choke carb understeer mayhem.
Ooh, I forgot that I once had a brown car. A MkII Vauxhall Carlton saloon. I had it when I first met me wife. And yet she still went out with me.
It was like this:
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And I lusted to lust after a Senator. True luxury !
@DezB - that was my childhood that was. Stolen from me, hiding out of sight of friends, in the back of an Austin Princess HLS in this striking and memorable colourway. 😐
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I have always associated brown with beige and grandparents...let's see it in its turd resembling grandness...
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@DezB - that was my childhood that was. Stolen from me, hiding out of sight of friends, in the back of an Austin Princess HLS in this striking and memorable colourway
The delightful "Harvest Gold", aka crapatini brown, my first car was a mini clubman estate in that fetching shade...sadly no vinyl roof for me.
I previously had a brown 1990 Ford Fiesta named "Jobby".
I just dug this out of the car we had for 8 months in BC. I remembered it being browner.
baby poo? sunny delight and beetroot baby poo, maybe.
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id have this though.
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or that
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We had one of these as the family car when I was about 13, I eventually learnt to drive in it.
I had a Vauxhall Nova the same colour as sundayjumpers carlton up there as my first car as well.
possibly explains why I don't mind brown bar tape.....
@mattoutandabout - really? you were [i]ashamed[/i] of the Princess?? I think we had a tan Maxi at about that time. Company car... We thought it was fab!
I had one of these in 1970
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Admittedly it was made by Dinky.
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agreed, but they said that about white cars, what, 5 or 6 years ago, and they still seem to be most popular colour for new ones...
Surely the most popular colour is silver? I've been looking at new cars lately and the colour choice is invariably one each of white, black, blue, red, and 37 different variations of metallic grey. It's like we've turned into a nation of John Majors.
totally agree on the :
based on our wanderings of showrooms and forecourts in recent weeks. That's what is probably giving the thought of something a bit different 🙂 Having been driving a 'space grey' estate for 4 yrs, and a 'indigo blue' one for the same before that, I thought different would be good, and I don't really like black or white.white, black, blue, red, and 37 different variations of metallic grey
Brown though...... we'll see !
Both these look Ace, IMO.
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When my XC60's up for renewal, I might get get the new gen X1.. dans brun.
could be very like this :
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*adds bikebouy to the list*
Grew up with one of these babies:
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only more beige-y.
Consequently, I fully approve of brown cars.
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that's just a beach with very uniformly coloured stones on it?
My T25 will be getting brown lace stripes soon, if that counts.
Actually, I'd drive this until the tyres exploded.
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I've got a brown car..............it actually says beige on the V5 😕
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The Capri and the Range Rover aren't really brown, they're a shade of gold or bronze, to be a proper brown the colour really has to be a flat colour, not metallic.
The Princess in Matt's photo above is, I understand, commonly known as 'baby-shit brown'.
I used to drive my dad's Volvo 244 GL, which was a fetching shade of dark brown; I tended to 'drive it like I stole it', fairly safe in the knowledge that nobody would notice a dark brown featureless box on wheels. 😉
The first car I remember the mother having was a brown metro.
Don't get that.
Love the Grinall....
hate the received wisdom that you must buy a certain colour in order for resale value. It's basically a handful of car journos telling everyone what to think, the same as how if you're selling your house, it MUST be magnolia as the stupidd buyers won't be able to imagine anything if it's not magnolia. Brown cars look fine and you'll stand out from the sea of silver and white cars.
Having said that, bikebouy - X1s are awful, get another XC60 😉
Im team brown all the way (metallic toffee brown don't you know) 😆
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We had one of these in this colour. You couldn't see the brown from the inside.
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Unless it had the matching brown interior, which it did.
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If it helps OP any metallic brown car is referred to in our house as "dog poo by moonlight".
I am not exactly at the cutting edge of fashion though 😀
Tonprove the point ... I've owned one brown/beige car - a Triumph Acclaim with a brown interior. This will give you a clue just how 8) I have been.
Well the scimitar makes the brown look good
Vw less so
well, I must thank STW again, resourceful in not only bike fettling guidance, health issues and general life, but in showing my loved ones the cruel reality of life with a jobby coloured car 🙂
They have relented and it will not be brown !
I learnt to drive in an Allegro estate. It was brown / beige..
just like this.
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Then dad got a red one - height of radical chic..
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Yeah brown
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Further to my Austin Princess exterior shots, I would like to share these with you. I do remember he rear seat being huuuuuuuge, especially as the previous cars had been a Renault 4 and Fiat Amiga, with three of us in the back.
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Check out the carpet.
i work in higher education philanthropy...one of our donors who owned a company that is a bit of a household name and he has significant wealth...he drives a chocolate brown rolls royce phantom...its absolutely gopping
No longer mine unfortunately...
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Front half of our camper is brown
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Nice reg plate.
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Aah! Shame. I bet it was the Beetle on the first page that did it. Actually looks like a slimy poo that one.
^^^ I think it took most of the first page to get them to see the light 🙂
In the epitome of of current car blandness I have just ordered one in grey 🙂
I had a brown Z900. Does that count?
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Wouldn't catch me dead in this;-)
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Brown cars rock
Only possibly acceptable if you are The Fall Guy
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Otherwise, no. Never.
Just past a new fancy jag in Tesco car.
My 8 year old daughter remarked.
"would you like a metallic poop coloured car?"
I had to laugh thinking of this thread.
n.b. There was no mention of it being a nice car or anything.
When [s]we were[/s] my wife was looking at Civics, we saw a deep metallic golden brown one, I thought it looked lovely, deep and glossy.
I asked the dealer about it just to wind her up, as we were struggling, unsurprisingly, to find the higher spec she wanted in the budget 'Milano red', essentially a downgraded paint finish.
Surprisingly, he tried to put me off by saying how hard they were to sell, and how much he had to stake off the screen price on the last one, I'm standing there nodding and thinking there must be a good deal coming, meanwhile my wife was walking back to the our car!
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Sort of Brown, more "textured like Sun"
New Audi Q2..
Which (along with the new X1 I posted) looks nice IMO.
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