Oh, yes. That, too. To be fair, I hadn't seen that movie in forever. More than 20 years at this point.I believe you also confused the cast of 1992 drama/thriller The Bodyguard starring Kevin Costner and the young Miss Whitney Houston.
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To be fair, that movie with 7 (seven) Razzie nominations is better off being forgotten with time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Golden_Raspberry_Awards
Oh Yea, that color WORKS WELL for that car!. That one and Grabber Blue look fierce on the Mustang
Oh Yea, that color WORKS WELL for that car!. That one and Grabber Blue look fierce on the Mustang
I mentioned it before, I think Ford and Dodge have the best color schemes for their vehicle lineup. But Ford, by far, has the best lineup with their ‘Greens.’ (I.e., Gotta have it green 13/14 GT, Need for green for the 2019 GT, Darkside for the SHO, Grabber Lime GT500, Highland Green for the 2019 Bullitt...)
I always want to venture with a different color for my next car, like a dark-er green, but I just keep leaning towards a slate/Black, Which is the most difficult color to maintain, but it looks so good. Tough decisions ahead.
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I love Dodge's names for their colors too. Go Mango, Redline Red, Plum Crazy Purple, Sublime, Destroyer Grey.
For sure. And I think their marketing Naming makes the color more fun to choose. I just drove past a destroyer grey Challenger last week, and that has to be with most unique shades of grey on a car, it’s almost like a ‘milky gray’ in direct sunlight, but looks awesome.
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I like to call Destroyer Grey clearcoated primer, because that's what it looks like to me haha. I could never take that color when there are so many awesome looking, high-impact colors to choose from. And I'm a complete sucker for pearls.
If I were buying that kind of grey I'd rather option out Nardo Gray to whatever OEM that's managed to match it to VAG's original.
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Yes, it's like perusing through a Maybelline catalog of lipstick colors.
I now looked at a pic. So boring. Not the only one offering this kind of color.
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You know it really helps make colors like the ‘Destroyer grey’ pop? When you have a nice set of aftermarket wheels in contrast to the paint color. I think it really helps with the paint appeal of a car with a nice set of wheels, which is where some factory wheels struggle with design, color, style, ect. That’s what I did with my black Mustang GT, eliminated the stock 19 inch wheels, and put on 20” ‘charcoal’ colored GT500 wheels that changed the whole perspective of the car. It’s amazing what a nice set of aftermarket wheels can alter the whole vehicles appearance.
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Because they know the market.
Station wagons, as a general rule, don't sell in the US regardless of who makes them.
Forgive me for not being able to read your mind, as often times your rants in this thread are about why things are done a certain way in the US.
Aside from that, though, the US is a BIG market for automobiles and for many makers influences their global designs.
Well, I am not thinking about American carmakers, but about others that make such ugly cheap sedan derivatives or that don't transfer their station wagon designs from Europe.
Believe it or not, most car makers have teams of people that they pay a whole lot of money to do market research on what will sell in a given market. I'm going to GUESS that they know a lot more about that than you do.
Generally speaking, the car makers are in business to make money. If they think a design will sell in a certain market(or at least sell well enough to recoup the cost of outfitting it for that market), they will probably bring it there. If they don't think it will sell, they probably won't bring it.
Generally speaking, the car makers are in business to make money. If they think a design will sell in a certain market(or at least sell well enough to recoup the cost of outfitting it for that market), they will probably bring it there. If they don't think it will sell, they probably won't bring it.
I know what I like and this kind of cars was sold before.
Many businesses are run by overpaid crap managers.
Consumer’s tastes change over time. Look at the current massive popularity of CUVs and trucks. What sold well in the past may not sell well now. Station wagons in the US haven’t been popular for decades, regardless of who makes them.
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Car companies don’t continue to sell cars people don’t buy.
Companies spend a lot of money on market research to figure out what people want. The trend lately in major markets like the US and China and much of Europe has been towards SUVs and away from wagons. People aren’t buying SUVs because companies are making them buy them, it’s because they want to buy them.
If you don’t mind me asking, what country do you live in. I’m guessing India based on your references to Indian market cars.