Has anyone got a Cuprite car?

[Chrishazle]

Must be the photos - colour looks very like the Carneol Red of my S204 - which I really like (as does herself!!). Black, grey and silver are far too common and easy to loose in a car park. Only thing I find with Carneol Red (like a metallic burgundy) is that it shows the muck more than the silver S203 - but then it looks a hell of a lot nicer than the silver when clean and polished!

 

[swannymere]

It looks like a dark burgundy to me and either way i really like it, much better than sheep white, grey, silver or black.

 

[swannymere]

 

[AnimMerc]

I really like Cuprite on the C63.

 

[Lee C63]

Not for me the brown......just looks wrong for a AMG

 

[trapperjohn]

I am colour blind. It looks black to me.
And quite nice.

Me too Darrell. It took me a while to work out it was not actually black. Now I know its not black, gawd knows what it looks like to me. Shiny brown perhaps.

 

[Charles Morgan]

Looks very like dark chocolate to me.

Any colour other than silver, grey or black (nothing wrong with any of those in the slightest other than their sheer ubiquity) is to be applauded.

Looking at new cars recently, BMW did not have either a red or a green in their line up on the 5 series. How very dull.

 

[jamesfuller]

I like it, it wouldn't work for me on something more normal but a brown AMG estate is pretty cool.
Reminds me of a car I once read about it in a magazine, a Cortina mk5 estate in brown but with a 3 litre Jeff Uren conversion!!

 

[Silver CL55]

I love it, I'd need to think about resale though, not everyone (as you see from the replies), is as up to date as us.

 

[artyman]

I often wonder about what colours we expect certain cars to be, I can remember the Cortina Mk111 in bronze with a black vinyl roof (so brownish), looked quite smart, I had Mk1 cavaliers in both red and copper. These days it seems it' silver, black or white. Is it because we have been conditioned to accept cars in those colours that we feel anything different is odd.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

I often wonder about what colours we expect certain cars to be, I can remember the Cortina Mk111 in bronze with a black vinyl roof (so brownish), looked quite smart, I had Mk1 cavaliers in both red and copper. These days it seems it' silver, black or white. Is it because we have been conditioned to accept cars in those colours that we feel anything different is odd.

Simply fashion IMHO

 

[jaymanek]

That lighting is making it look good... We had one in and it describe it as purple/brown in reality.

Here it is

2009(09) MERCEDES E350 CDI AVANTGARDE SALOON AUTO BLUEEFFICIENCY - Mercland

 

[jamesfuller]

Simply fashion IMHO

Yep, and also a factor is what paint is actually available. I was looking at the Porsche Cayenne Platinum edition, Mahogany aside you only have a choice of black, white and grey. Not exactly inspiring.

 

[ringway]

I can remember the Cortina Mk111 in bronze with a black vinyl roof (so brownish), looked quite smart.

My Mum had one of those back in the day and at the time I suppose it was quite a novel car in comparison to what was available.

I owned a couple of VX Omega V6 Estates and the brochure always seemed to show a Tourer in Champage (light gold). It looked good in the brochure and I half thought about getting one in that colour, but in the flesh (especially if not clean) it looked pretty glum and dowdy. Hard to re-sell I should think. In the end I had a dark green and a silver model which I was always happy to look at.




This (Thanks SPX) is lovely and I wish my 210 was Azurite Blue.

 

[Red C220]

I think the black windows look wrong in a cuprite car, especially an estate.

I'm not a fan of black windows to start with, but they do work with certain colours, generally the colours chosen in volume. Black, Silver, White and the 15 other shades of grey offered by Mercedes, BMW etc etc.

The moment you go off piste with the colours, brown, red, blue, purple etc - the pimp windows look wrong.

All IMO of course.

We're ordering a replacement for Red C220 at the moment, it's due back in July.

We're going for an E220cdi Auto Sport estate, having had a look at the prices and seen that Designo options are no longer stupid money (circa £1100) we thought we'd like a nice colour.

It turns out the Designo options are further shades of grey or silly matt colour effects and what we really wanted was Designo Mystic Blue.

After a few emails to Germany our dealer tells us this is a £5,750 option. So that'll be a no to Mystic Blue then.

Mrs RedC220 wants Diamond White metallic, but then she doesn't have to wash the car.

I'd like Hyacinth Red, but I'd actually like to see one in the flesh. The 5 cars in that colour currently on Mercedes Used all look different colours depending on the photographer. In turn these all look different to the Mercedes press shot.

We're not close to any of the garages that have these in stock to pop up and have a look. So at the weekend we went up to MB World to see if they had something there or even just a paint sample thing. They'd never heard of it, I had to show them their own website whilst there as they didn't believe it existed.

 

[Jules335]

I have seen Hyacinth Red and personally I didn't like it all. It is more a brown/bronze colour than red. You need to see it to appreciate it but is nothing like some of the photos on the MB website. They make it look much nicer than it really is!

 

[C240Sport97]

I agree Hyacinth Red in MB pics is redder than it is in real life.

however, I don't see any real brown in it .. if anything, there's a hint of orange.

 

[Red C220]

I have seen Hyacinth Red and personally I didn't like it all. It is more a brown/bronze colour than red. You need to see it to appreciate it but is nothing like some of the photos on the MB website. They make it look much nicer than it really is!

I agree Hyacinth Red in MB pics is redder than it is in real life.

however, I don't see any real brown in it .. if anything, there's a hint of orange.

^ Exactly why I'm not comfortable ordering a car without seeing it in real life.

Diamond White is the current choice and it looks like it's staying.

 

[Dieselman]

That lighting is making it look good... We had one in and it describe it as purple/brown in reality.

I really fancied a Cuprite E class...until I saw one inside at MB World. It lloked dull out of bright sunshine.
It should have been a shade lighter and more sparkly.

Still...they always get an interior to die for.

 

[ringway]

I really fancied a Cuprite E class...until I saw one inside at MB World. It lloked dull out of bright sunshine.
It should have been a shade lighter and more sparkly.

The colour is to match the corrosion that will inevitably appear.
No one will see the rust and MB will then bang on about the drastically reduced number of warranty claims.





Thinking about it, that might be true.