Ah, understood. I see. You might think this doesn't concern you..go to the dealer and choose it A rugged gray 4Runner Because you're trying to tell the world about yourself. take yourself too seriously What you're driving around town.But what you don't know is that the 4Runner Not just grayneither silver nor pale blue. It's exactly Luna Rock. You are also lightly unaware of the fact that in 2006 Lamborghini introduced the Grigio His Telesto His supercar collection.And Audi showed that. sports car nard gray?
Similar colors soon appeared in the collections of eight European car manufacturers. Then it trickled down through coupes and sedans to tragic crossovers, where no doubt they must have fished it out of the buy-here, pay-here store.
But that gray color represents millions of dollars and countless jobs. And it's funny in a way that people on this blog think they've chosen to be exempt from the auto industry when, in fact, they're driving cars they've picked out of a pile of cars.
OK, so I was paraphrasing Meryl Streep's iconic Miranda Priestly. Breakthrough This is also a 2006 movie. the devil wears prada A little there. But she was right about fashion, and I was right about cars. The current trend of all cars looking like putty can be blamed on trends driven by wealthy people and their buying habits.
When a non-car-obsessed person like Tik Tok science titan (and author, YouTuber, and super cool dude) Hank Greene starts noticing an automotive trend that's been going on for nearly 20 years, it's obvious has reached its peak. The trend for desaturated, non-metallic auto paint has made its way from Lamborghinis and Audis to Porsches and McLarens to even the most basic Honda Civic and Toyota crossovers. This was a less obvious trend when it was confined to the world of luxury sports cars, but now every American dealership sells cars with no peeling paint, usually gray or desaturated blue or green. Looks like it's on sale. Difficult to avoid.
Over the past 30 years, cars have increasingly tended to use grayscale color palettes. These are reportedly inoffensive colors preferred by his second buyer and will encourage resale once the ownership experience is over. The days of “resale red” are long gone and the days of gray and white are here to stay.
Of course, there are larger trends at play here. From the prominence of “millennial gray” in home decor and wall paint to black and heather gray being the most popular shades on T-shirts. People, especially Americans and Europeans, try to blend in and stand out. The idea of buying a gray Lamborghini is extremely repulsive to me, but “stealth wealth” was a big part of the culture from his 2000s to today. Trends popularized by the wealthy then begin to trickle down to the middle class, where they become borderline universal.
Metallic paint has been in fashion for decades, and after the success of Audi's Nardo Gray, the trend is only increasing. Become a butt whip that looks like putty.