Top Ten Cars that Look Great in Bizarre Colors

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Seyth Miersma on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 15:33
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4. Lotus Elise

Offered up in silver or black, Lotus’s lightweight Elise is a brutally attractive sports car. Change the shade to an unholy mix of yellow and green, and the car becomes even more intriguing. While we think that Elise passes even the pink test with high marks, the competition gets fairly rough here.

It’s no easy job to design a car that most people will agree is attractive. Start to throw wild shades of paint into the mix and the job becomes exponentially harder. While it’s safe to say that Jaguar’s XKE is a stunningly beautiful car, we’d imagine that Atomic Orange might be a tough sell to Jag owners when it comes time for new paint.

But there are cars that seem to look exceptional no matter what hue they’re cast in. They tend to be vehicles that are rather brash to begin with; being quite large or quite small seems to help as well. For the purposes of creating our list of ten cars that can look great in horrible colors, we made pink our “acid test.” If it couldn’t make out well in Barbie’s signature color, it didn’t make the list. Enjoy.

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chartguy

Excuse me, but didn't you miss one of the most obvious choices? The Mini Cooper, either the original or the current one.

Wed, 07/23/2008 - 16:36
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Seyth Miersma

We did debate the Mini, good call. You'll find it with the last slide under " Honorable Mentions"

Seyth Miersma
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Winding Road // NextAutos

Wed, 07/23/2008 - 17:14
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Anonymous

The Lancia looks hideous in that colour !

Sat, 08/30/2008 - 19:07
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Ducati Minor

Uh...Miura? The 'Cuda?

Way off, guys.

Wed, 07/23/2008 - 20:42
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Anonymous

1970 Challenger

http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-1970-1979/1970-Dodge-Challenger-Lime-G...

Thu, 07/24/2008 - 07:27
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Chris Paukert

Ducati- The Miura and Cuda are good suggestions, and ones we toyed with, but in the interest of keeping one per manufacturer, the Countach and Superbird won out.

87ninefiveone - the 911 arguably should have made the list. This was another car we discussed and should have at least been put in the "honorable mentions" category. That's partially why we came up with the related Question of the Day.

Chris Paukert

Editor-In-Chief

Winding Road Magazine // NextAutos

Thu, 07/24/2008 - 08:30
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SteveC

I do believe there was a Stratos racer that was primarily pink, and one in pink and white. They were pretty cool for pink cars.

Fri, 07/25/2008 - 09:02
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Dubywah

Nash-Rambler.... so busy looking at the car; nobody noticed their two-tone paint jobs !!!!!

Wed, 07/30/2008 - 19:57
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Scotty

What about the BMW 2002. Factory Lime Groon, an Orange that is now becoming fashionable again and I've seen one in Pink and it looked Good.
Scotty

Wed, 08/20/2008 - 23:46
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Scotty

Stupid key board does it again, if I hit e twice it changes to o???? is there a Keyboard doctor out there?

Wed, 08/20/2008 - 23:50
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Anonymous

Typical - you left out the MGB.

The world's and working man's classic sports car where thousands of 40+ year old versions of the vehicle hit the streets and racetracks all year 'round. By the time a car has passed 40 years old it has probably been through a number of paint jobs and paint colours... but no matter what colour they paint it, they can never make an MGB look bad!

And that Lancia Stratos just looks pig ugly, not matter what colour it is!

Thu, 08/21/2008 - 00:30
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Anonymous

I see you say one per make of vehicle....
but not even a mention of the VW type1 aka the Beetle
think I seen that little bug in every colour under the sun.
true its not the most beautiful car, but still makes a person look twice and smile.

Thu, 08/21/2008 - 02:19
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LotusEliseBlog

Krypton Green has got to be one of the best colors on the planet. This picture really doesn't do it justice, I prefer this one much better (taken about 10 miles up the road in Gulf Shores Alabama)...

http://www.lotuseliseblog.com/images/Lotus_Elise_Alabama3_th.jpg

The sad part, this particular Elise was totalled in March of this year. All thats left of it (for me anyway) is a bright red towhook, some paint chips and half of a carbon fiber front splitter...

LotusEliseBlog.com

Thu, 08/21/2008 - 22:56
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Iain

Sorry, but there are only two cars that work in pink for me - probably because they've always been that colour - and I think either one of them looks a whole lot better in black...

Of course I'm talking about the 'one and only, truly original' Pink Panther car and Lady Penelope's FAB 1 Rolls Royce from the original Thunderbirds puppet series. (Definitely NOT that awful Ford thingy pastiche from the recent 'live action' film version where the actors were more wooden than the original puppets!)

OK, I know one was a one-off custom special and the other is only a model, but can you imagine how cool you'd look arriving in either one of them - even in pink?? Paint FAB 1 black however and you'd make a Chrysler 300C look about as menacing as an Andrex puppy - and if that didn't work you'd always have the rocket launcher behind the radiator grille, or the banks of machine guns behind the lights, or...

Wed, 08/27/2008 - 19:14
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Anonymous

I can't believe Ferrari didn't make the list. while the newer models look best in red or black the older Ferraris, like the 550, are absolutely stunning in any color. at least second or third.

Sat, 08/30/2008 - 14:05
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Anonymous

The 550 needs red or balck to look good, the design is not good enough to handle other colours. Thank god for the badge......... shades of the Kings new clothes :)

Sat, 08/30/2008 - 19:11
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