Getting a hard time over a green car

[Chris_J]

My Fiancee's Mum says that green is unlucky on a wedding day lol.

 

[pammy]

BRG was never an actual colour. It was just a shade of dark green and could vary slightly between marques and models and year.
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It certainly did

 

[A210AMG]

Green is a no for me sorry.


But sure someone else will like it.

 

[TonyVianoAmbiente]

You just cant resist posting can you Television?

Well he is only 400 away from 10,000 postings!

 

[DITTRICH]

There are 2 points here:-

1 The given reason
2 The real reason

Sometimes 1 and 2 are the same, sometimes not.

I suppose given the amount of time they spend in shops choosing clothes would indicate that colour could well be important. Especially if they don't have anything in their wardrobe to "go" with the colour of the car.

Cynical? Moi?

Les

 

[philiggy]

There are 2 points here:-

1 The given reason
2 The real reason

Sometimes 1 and 2 are the same, sometimes not.

I suppose given the amount of time they spend in shops choosing clothes would indicate that colour could well be important. Especially if they don't have anything in their wardrobe to "go" with the colour of the car.

Cynical? Moi?

Les

This is what I thought, so I tried to get to the heart of the matter, which seems to be that the interior colour is even worse

Phil

 

[SEM]

Trouble is you lot is thinking like blokes....
Now if the missus is wearing her denims.. "blue and green should never be seen unless there's something in between"... You need a racing stripe for it to work..... or it clashes with a blue handbag...

The gaffer in my house had a lime green Peugeot... not a prob at all.. only i couldn’t drive it out of embarrassment

 

[big x]

Talking of colours, the one you look at most is the interior. For me it has to be black, gray or ivory.In a sports car red is OK too.
I'm not to keen on blue dashboards.

This colour however is horrible IMO and quite common in Mercs..... a sickly Barbara Cartland hue. Anyone like it ?

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/414188.htm

 

[DITTRICH]

This is what I thought, so I tried to get to the heart of the matter, which seems to be that the interior colour is even worse

Phil

It isn't the colours.
It's something else.

The only clue I have to go on is that you spent a long time looking for the car so I assume it's precisely what you **think** is required which isn't necessarily what she might want. I'm not trying to be clever, just I learned the hard way, just like all blokes.
Perhaps approach the problem from the other end and ask her to write down the things that are important to her in choosing a car.
Or try to use one of her female friends to prise the reason out of her?

Best of Luck

Les

 

[Colin_b]

After looking for ages, last week I found my wife a really nice 1996 124 E300 Diesel estate 7 seater, MB Tex, tow bar, service history no rust, no wear on interior.

I picked it up yesterday, my wife hates it and wants me to sell it, just because its green

Am I missing something, does anyone else think green cars are unlucky

Phil

Oddly, neither of my grandmothers would get into a green car under any circumstances - it was deeply unlucky, they claimed. (green trains were OK, though). Heard it a couple of times since 'green cars are unlucky'.

Possibly some ingrained folk memory handed down the generations?

 

[Vlad]

Wow lot of superstitious people out there....lucky heather anyone?

 

[big x]

Wow lot of superstitious people out there....lucky heather anyone?

Jade green is regarded as the lucky colour in Japan. In fact I would say white and green cars are 60% of the total cars on the road there.
Insurance company statistics here often show black to be the colour most likely to be in an accident.

 

[SEM]

I always wanted blue cars, from being a kid with my bikes.. blue was lucky... till i smacked my car into armco because of black ice on a roundabout...guess what colour it was.. yep blue...

 

[SEM]

Jade green is regarded as the lucky colour in Japan. In fact I would say white and green cars are 60% of the total cars on the road there.
Insurance company statistics here often show black to be the colour most likely to be in an accident.

Fingers crossed then.. five black cars no claims... i've just hoodood my car havent i?

 

[Bear]

Well I love my green car to bits:bannana: :bannana: :bannana:

 

[jadefox]

Lots of variations on which colours are lucky or not, depending on where you live. Green - bad in the UK, good in Eire, is also the colour of Mohammed's robe so auspicious for Islam, ancient Egyptians though it was thumbs up as well because of fertility and new growth - but it also suited the motor racing crowd as the 'national' team colour for GB was green.

Chinese use white for mourning - black in the West, and so it goes on.

Green may be associated with bad luck from one story that as Napoleon was held in a green room before his death, the colour may have had some influence - which was probably true as ****nic used to be used to 'fix' colours in wallpapers, and the bedroom he slept in had the latest green wallpaper. As the moisture leached out the ****nic from the paper, its though it could have been one possible cause of his death.

Green was also associated with the fairy folk, decay and ageing, so again translated into bad luck issues.

All depends where you're from really.

And statistically insurers will tell you green cars have the most accidents..........



I also found this link from the Admiral Insurance Group;

http://www.admiral.com/contactUs/pressOffice/pressReleases/150306.php

 

[television]

Thank you Jade for that info, throws a different light on it, twice as likely,, thats high

 

[BTB 500]

And statistically insurers will tell you green cars have the most accidents

Maybe because green cars appeal to a certain type of driver?

 

[Peterdon]

I never bothered about the colour of a car until I bought a fern green Capri. I was told "Green is unlucky", "Rubbish "said I.

I had more bad luck with that car than I'd had for all previous cars put together. I didn't have another green car for years then bought another one, more bad luck!!.

Another 15 years along the way and I've got another green car, my 300TE, I've had it a year with no problems, I suppose they'll start now I've written this down.

 

[BTB 500]

I suppose, thinking about it, my green Sharan did get damaged in an accident when it was less than a year old!