Yes, this is one of my biggest gripes with the GTi/GTD. The colour pallette is rather limited if you don't like dark colours. Three shades of white, flat red and Tungsten Silver.
You sum it up well. Dark shades, light shades and red.

So many conservative colours and red.

Unfortunately, I have to agree with Watts.

Though red does a take a bit of effort to get it looking that good, Watts.

Go have a look at the Seat Leon colour range. It is much, much better than VW.
