Do you regret your colour choice

[fredgroves]

I *suspect* the colour choices are do to with some sort of value judgement around PCP GFV's or Das Welt resale values.

What you don't want is to be giving different values for colours I suspect, so you pick a load of safe colours.

Although having said that, the "purple nasty" seems to break my conceptual rule ;-)

I swear that was offered as the one zero extra cost option to make people spend more money!!!

Possibly reflex silver was seen as a bit old hat - from ~2000 everyone wanted a pure silver car before that evolved into more grey silver before going back to white as the fave. Certainly the sales figures seem to reflect that broad public group think.

I'd love to talk to VW UK about what their thoughts are on this subject.

[Jim_mk7.5]

I *suspect* the colour choices are do to with some sort of value judgement around PCP GFV's or Das Welt resale values.

What you don't want is to be giving different values for colours I suspect, so you pick a load of safe colours.

Although having said that, the "purple nasty" seems to break my conceptual rule ;-)

I swear that was offered as the one zero extra cost option to make people spend more money!!!

Possibly reflex silver was seen as a bit old hat - from ~2000 everyone wanted a pure silver car before that evolved into more grey silver before going back to white as the fave. Certainly the sales figures seem to reflect that broad public group think.

I'd love to talk to VW UK about what their thoughts are on this subject.

Black Rubin! What a truely awful colour. Used to see one near my work and it looked as bad if not worse than the configurator!

[Guzzle]

I *suspect* the colour choices are do to with some sort of value judgement around PCP GFV's or Das Welt resale values.

What you don't want is to be giving different values for colours I suspect, so you pick a load of safe colours.

Although having said that, the "purple nasty" seems to break my conceptual rule ;-)

I swear that was offered as the one zero extra cost option to make people spend more money!!!

Possibly reflex silver was seen as a bit old hat - from ~2000 everyone wanted a pure silver car before that evolved into more grey silver before going back to white as the fave. Certainly the sales figures seem to reflect that broad public group think.

I'd love to talk to VW UK about what their thoughts are on this subject.

Turmeric Yellow was also available elsewhere in the range (GT / R Line / R etc). AFAIK it made no difference to GFV's. 🤷‍♂️

[fredgroves]

Turmeric Yellow was also available elsewhere in the range (GT / R Line / R etc). AFAIK it made no difference to GFV's. 🤷‍♂️

A variation of it is currently a Mk8 launch colour too.... I guess VW UK are probably cursing that, but they can't influence that.

Its both garish and horrible at the same time.

Much prefer the in your face colours that Ford or Renault used on their turbo nutter models. No half measures there!

[Yusee]

I kept swerving between Indium Grey and Isaac Blue, but at the time I ordered i'd not seen an Isaac car other than in photos. Then at the last minute, out of nowhere I decided to order Tungsten Silver. Never regretted it, although I do sometimes see Isaac and think I wouldn't have regretted that either.

On the whole though, the palette choices are all very bland.

Ordered indium before seeing an Isaac car at the local dealer. Je ne regrette rien.
The more conservative colours will look better in 10 years time, though I don’t expect many people buy with that in mind.

[Guzzle]

Turmeric Yellow was also available elsewhere in the range (GT / R Line / R etc). AFAIK it made no difference to GFV's. 🤷‍♂️

A variation of it is currently a Mk8 launch colour too.... I guess VW UK are probably cursing that, but they can't influence that.

Its both garish and horrible at the same time.

Much prefer the in your face colours that Ford or Renault used on their turbo nutter models. No half measures there!

Not my cup of tea either. Lime Yellow they call it, but to me it'll always be Mountain Dew 

I do look at the colours available for the Leon and the Octavia and wish I could have had the Golf in one of those. What's more SEAT don't charge extra for metallic paint.   

[Guzzle]

I kept swerving between Indium Grey and Isaac Blue, but at the time I ordered i'd not seen an Isaac car other than in photos. Then at the last minute, out of nowhere I decided to order Tungsten Silver. Never regretted it, although I do sometimes see Isaac and think I wouldn't have regretted that either.

On the whole though, the palette choices are all very bland.

Ordered indium before seeing an Isaac car at the local dealer. Je ne regrette rien.
The more conservative colours will look better in 10 years time, though I don’t expect many people buy with that in mind.

Yep, with the amount of people leasing and PCP'ing these days, most buying decisions won't be made thinking that far ahead.

I doubt VW or (anyone else for that matter) will have any trouble shifting a GTi in one of the more enduring appeal colours. 

[fredgroves]

Much prefer the in your face colours that Ford or Renault used on their turbo nutter models. No half measures there!

Not my cup of tea either. Lime Yellow they call it, but to me it'll always be Mountain Dew

Kawasaki Racing Green! I love my Kwakas!

TBH the one colour I really wanted a Mk7 in was the flat grey that finally they did with the TCR. I almost bought a TCR just for that. Audi and Skoda both offered that years ago - in fact I want to say Audi was the first. Its an epic colour I think, especially if you ditch all of the chrome for a full black look and add some 90% rear tints.

[CarbonGTD]

Well Sootchucker this has really given me a wry smile today.  I did the exact opposite.  I have taken delivery of my 20 plate GTI PP DSG a few wks ago in Atlantic Blue and I really can't decide whether I like the colour or not - and I'd love to swap it for Indium grey!

I had two Tornado Red Golfs before (GTI and GTD) and really loved the red, but I couldn't have three in a row the same. 

The Atlantic blue also has a lovely fleck in the paint visible in strong sunlight which looks great - and it also looks fantastic toward dusk on sunny evenings when the colour becomes really dark - looks lovely.  The trouble is the rest of the time eg under grey skies the colour can look really badly flat, plus it shows up the dirt badly (much worse than Tornado Red which hides the dirt v well).

So there you go - if you lived on the south coast we could do a swap :O)

[RM]

I bought mine second hand and colour wasn’t hugely important. I ended up with Isaac Blue, and the only day I’ve seen it looking blue was the day I bought it. Every other day, it’s grey. I have a grey car.