Recently as a family, we have been looking to buy a second car. We have a dark blue car and had a red car till last week when we suddenly decided to get a certified car removal company to help us get rid of the red car and ever since then have been looking for another car as having a second car at home is more of a necessity for us. I wanted a purple car. A purple car would go nicely with a dark blue one I thought. However, there aren’t many purple cars for sale. My weird thought is: where are all the purple cars?
Will this car do?
Whenever car shopping, one naturally starts to notice the cars on the roads. So as we started car shopping, I started to see with new eyes the many cars that passed me by as I sat and sipped my coffee in one of the many coffee shops I patronize. I also looked at cars in car parks, cars parked on the side of the road and cars on TV. The conclusion: cars these days are mostly either grey, silver, white or black.
Why is that? There aren’t even that many red or blue cars on the roads at the moment. I’m sure that even five years ago (when my eldest and I used to play ‘count the car colours’) there was a better mix of blue, red, black, silver, grey and white cars. Now, it seems, the black, silver, grey and white cars have overtaken the roads and overtaken the world.
My dream car
We have now bought our car, after poring over the details on Car Check, and it is black. It isn’t purple. We couldn’t find a purple Ford Focus (or whatever sensible make of car we went for, I wanted a Beetle). The range of colours that bland cars come in is the following: grey, silver, black or white. I think that is most unfair.
What makes my argument for searching for a purple car weaker is that apparently going boring is the best option, financially.
This admitting of defeat on my part is especially irksome to me as the colour of the car you choose to drive, it is argued, says something about your personality. I’d like the chance to reflect my personality through my purple car (creative, intuitive, unique – that’ll do me) but I have no choice. Instead, I have to change my personality to match my car (it seems I need to become more aggressive, competitive and intimidating).
I think this is the car we bought but I didn’t pay attention
So Grrrr I’m going to be ANGRY about not having the chance to buy a PURPLE CAR grrrrrr.
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