Hmmm...  silver is in fact VERY easy to keep clean as it doesn't really show dirt. My Steel grey Yeti hardly ever looks really dirty as the dirt is so well hidden. A dark car on the other hand, like black or Pacific Blue: good luck keeping that clean. You will forever be washing and also remember cars normally have a white base coat - so any scratch on a dark car screams a mile off as a white line. No thanks. If washing regularly is an issue, you'd have been better off with the Jungle Green - which also looks clean most of the time. But then the £549 "saved" will pay for all those washes over the next many years.

So far as the colour of cars is concerned, it is totally a personal choice, with one person's meat being another's poison (to quote a well known cliche).

However, the opinion expressed that a grey car hides the dirt well to the extent that it doesn't look dirty, could equally be interpreted to mean that a grey car never looks clean. If it can't be so interpreted, then the comment is illogical.

As I say, each to his own.

So far as the colour of cars is concerned, it is totally a personal choice, with one person's meat being another's poison (to quote a well known cliche).

However, the opinion expressed that a grey car hides the dirt well to the extent that it doesn't look dirty, could equally be interpreted to mean that a grey car never looks clean. If it can't be so interpreted, then the comment is illogical.

As I say, each to his own.

 

Oh you are 100% correct there. You get whatever colour you like of course. And you know as well that each colour has different ways of hiding dirt or showing it off. I was just quoting my own experience with a few silver cars and now a grey one. A clean car, a clean looking car, a dirty car and a filthy car are all different things you'll find. So I stand by what I said I'm afraid (having both a silver and a grey car at present): they both are clean looking most all of the time (and I wash them both very, very infrequently).

Yetis suit being dirty so it doesn't really matter :sun:

Over the years, I've found most of my cars suit being dirty. I've also found if I have no real preference, let SWMBO choose. That way, it's easier when I need to dig my heels in occasionally (like the fact we're getting a Yeti instead of another Berlingo…)