On a typical cold, gray PNW day, these two cheerfully-painted cars certainly stood out. We need more yellow and orange cars; Stephanie has tried for years to get me to paint her forest-green Forester a cheerful shade like one of these. Vinyl wrap, perhaps? Well, I’d certainly feel cheerful taking the GTI out for a spin, but then the Focus was one of my favorite cars of its era too. Ed’s first new car was a bright red ZX3 stick, and was that ever fun to toss around our curvy back roads. I’m feeling more cheerful just thinking about it.
I just bought an ’06 Focus ZX5. Unfortunately, it’s silver, a non-color. Too many non-color cars these days.
Hmmm – pretty strong words for a man named Grey. 🙂
I am a man of constant paradox.
I smile every time I see my “Spirited Green” Mazda 2 in a parking lot full of dull coloured appliances. Heck even our minivan is an interesting blue colour. I also might be the only person you (virtually) know to have own three orange vehicles!
I have bought 3 new cars in my life. They have been black, white and gray. There were reasons for each choice, but still, I have never bought a new car in an actual color.
I am not sure that I would pick the lemon yellow or the orange orange, but I am glad that there are people who do choose them. I am more partial to the electric blues and the lime greens.
I liked the big bad blue orange and green AMC Javelins and Moulin Rouge/Pink Panther Mopars.
Nothing is as cheerful as a bright yellow 71 Town and Country!
MAACO’s extreme yellow really made it pop!
The red Dodge Dart was always fun too.
Our family fleet circa 1995.
Heavy love for the Sunroof-equipped 300.
Remember when the Explorer of this vintage had the same color? It had the opposite effect: made you more sad for the truck that it had to wear that skin.
I remember it as the Ford Escape that shared the Egg Yolk Yellow this Focus is in.
Used to see a Zinc Yellow Explorer Sport Trac downtown, as it parked on the same block as our office. My sister’s first car was a yellow Mustang in the same color. I always preferred it to the earlier Penske yellow.
That VW orange reminds me much of the orange used on the BMW 2002’s…Colorardo Orange? Almost looks like the Ford Grabber Orange. Nice color, rarely seen, so when it is, it tends to brighten up the surroundings. Too many boring shades of grays and silvers running around these days!
Growing up, I always wanted a yellow car. My mother was open to the idea, but none was ever in stock at new car buying time. I finally got my wish with my first car, a 1975 Rabbit. It was lemon yellow with 4 different interior colors: exposed body-colored metal, white headliner, gray cloth seating surfaces and partial carpeting, and black everything else. Too bad the car, not just the color, was also a lemon!
To this day, the sight of an Egg Yolk Yellow Ford Focus always grabs my attention. What I’d really like to get would be a current Dodge Charger Super Bee or Challenger Yellow Jacket which come in the yellow hue. But, alas, they both seem a little out of my price range. It really seems like yellow and orange are both often more visually stimulating than a bright red, long considered an aggressive color.
Count me among the chromaphiles. A northeastern winter is depressing enough, and then it gets filled with dirty gray cars.
Some vitamin c from last summer. What are the odds of finding this particular pair of Tic-Tacs?
I like the yellow Focus ZTS. Our DD is the same car, but dark red. We’ve somehow had 5 red cars in a row and pretty tired of it, would love for it to be yellow, or silver.
Coming up on 200,000 km and very little trouble with our 01, if I could I’d drive it until I was so old I can’t push the clutch pedal anymore…