My favorite vehicles are Toyota trucks.

[d_holliday]

I just wish that they still made new ones in a color like this:

or this:

or this:

Our new-age society has grown chromophobic, boring, fun-hating, politically-correct, sheepish and tasteless. The 1950's, 1960's, 1970's and into the 1980's were about total bliss and innocence.

 

[TipBledsoe]

We are Toyota people too. We've owned just about all makes and many models of vehicles over the years, but Toyota is the only make that's been good to us.

 

[HKaltwasser]

What about Voodoo blue and Sun burst colors.....still pretty bold although not on their trucks.

 

[d_holliday]

What about Voodoo blue and Sun burst colors.....still pretty bold although not on their trucks.

The "least boring" color in their truck lineup now is Barcelona Red Metallic but I would prefer a traditional clear bright fire engine red instead. Red is still available but not as electric as it used to be. I'm not a fan of metallic paints.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Banality is always popular...

 

[Axxe55]

Don't like the color, change it. There are probably no shortage of body shops that would re-paint a vehicle for the right amount of money.

 

[baboon]

See a lot of Toyota Hi-Lux trucks in Africa, wish they import some of them.

 

[Axxe55]

See a lot of Toyota Hi-Lux trucks in Africa, wish they import some of them.

Toyota Global offers trucks that just never have been available in the United States. Wish the did though.

 

[d_holliday]

Don't like the color, change it. There are probably no shortage of body shops that would re-paint a vehicle for the right amount of money.

I prefer factory paint. I would even settle for stock metallic red than pay extra to have lemon yellow aftermarket. White and silver would even be more insipid to me. It seems that people's tastes in automotive colors have changed dramatically over the past 40 years or so. Even buff/cream has become very rare as it was so common on up through the '80's. I would think present-day color offerings would reflect what the majority of new vehicle buyers want and not just what appeals to carmaker corporate executives' personal tastes. People still buy brightly-colored M&M's, Skittles, Reese's Pieces and jelly beans but just don't want their vehicles in those candy colors. People who are rainbow-color-shy tend to be in regards to the clothing and accessories they wear on their person and the vehicles they are seen driving, not in the food and beverages they consume. New Harley-Davidsons don't seem as colorful as they used to be.

New vehicles are already highly-expensive as it stands even in boring colors. I don't know which model year was the last Toyota truck in lemon yellow to be offered to the American car buyers. 1981 was the latest model year I've seen in that as a stock Toyota truck color. Fire engine non-metallic red trucks and cars still existed into at least the mid-2000's.

Younger generations of people don't look, dress and present themselves as attractive as they did decades ago also. Looking like a bum, a convict, a horror film alien, a nerd and/or being obese seems to be the current fashion. So it's no surprise that cars and trucks have lost their beauty, style, classic coolness, individuality, and elegance of yesteryear as well.

 

[Axxe55]

I prefer factory paint. I would even settle for stock metallic red than pay extra to have lemon yellow aftermarket. White and silver would even be more insipid to me. It seems that people's tastes in automotive colors have changed dramatically over the past 40 years or so. I would think present-day color offerings would reflect what the majority of new vehicle buyers want and not just what appeals to carmaker corporate executives' personal tastes. People still buy brightly-colored M&M's, Skittles, Reese's Pieces and jelly beans but just don't want their vehicles in those candy colors. People who are rainbow-color-shy tend to be in regards to the clothing and accessories they wear on their person and the vehicles they are seen driving, not in the food and beverages they consume.

As usual, you don't have a clue. The color choices by the manufacturers is based upon consumer preferences. The use focus groups, polls and other means to determine color options for the vehicles. Some colors are offered because of considerations for fleets or companies that buy large numbers of vehicles at a time.

And what one person wants in a color option is irrelevant. The are are concerned with what a large portion of the buying market is interested in. They offer what sells cars. End of story. Don't like the colors, then don't buy it.

Just really seems like such a trivial matter to whine about to me though.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Insipid and boring hillb. said...like this thread, but for reasons I can't fathom, I'm reading it...wait, I think I'm having a stroke...gack!

 

[d_holliday]

What about Voodoo blue and Sun burst colors.....still pretty bold although not on their trucks.

red, yellow and orange are just so hot, bright, fiery and sunny

 

[d_holliday]

Insipid and boring hillb. said...like this thread, but for reasons I can't fathom, I'm reading it...wait, I think I'm having a stroke...gack!

but you can't call the picture of that 1980 canary yellow Toyota truck boring to look at

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

I can rock this chair right off this porch if I want to!

 

[Axxe55]

I can rock this chair right off this porch if I want to!

Not if you're having a stroke you can't!

 

[d_holliday]

As usual, you don't have a clue. The color choices by the manufacturers is based upon consumer preferences. The use focus groups, polls and other means to determine color options for the vehicles. Some colors are offered because of considerations for fleets or companies that buy large numbers of vehicles at a time.

And what one person wants in a color option is irrelevant. The are are concerned with what a large portion of the buying market is interested in. They offer what sells cars. End of story. Don't like the colors, then don't buy it.

Just really seems like such a trivial matter to whine about to me though.

I do have a clue: the human race is now largely boring. Consumers are human, but wait, many these days might be even robots or zombies. I've never received any poll or survey in the mail or otherwise from any carmaker asking me my favorite color. If I should get such a survey in the mail from Toyota, I will surely point out that yellow 1980 truck to them.

There is nothing trivial about the price $40,ooo plus for a new pickup, a hay-hauler. I should get any custom color I want for that dollar amount.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Because of the stroke, I'm rocking ock ock ock ocking.

 

[Axxe55]

I do have a clue: the human race is now largely boring. Consumers are human, but wait, many these days might be even robots or zombies.

So what? Big deal. Auto manufacturers are in the business to sell vehicles. If boring colors are what the consumers are wanting, then that's what they offer.

No, you don't seem to have a clue.

 

[d_holliday]

So what? Big deal. Auto manufacturers are in the business to sell vehicles. If boring colors are what the consumers are wanting, then that's what they offer.

No, you don't seem to have a clue.

I do understand that. I have to suffer the boringness of the majority as a consumer. I would be in real trouble if nobody but me wanted to buy beef or pork anymore.

 

[Mowingmaniac 24/7]

Oh, the posting inanity....omg, now my eyes are bleeding!