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A Bold and Bright Future for Car Colors
The color of your next car may come from the makeup counter. Bolder colors and glitzy paint finishes are on the rise in the auto market and promise to offset staid shades of black, gray, silver and white that persistently dominate the roads.

Color trends that affect every conceivable consumable — cars, purses, shoes, cell phones, lamps, linens, wallpaper — can often be traced back to only a handful of hue gurus. Li Edelkoort is one of them. Her ability to accurately predict color trends has given her cult status in the fashion and design industries. She runs the Trend Union, which provides color forecasting guides two years in advance of the seasons that cosmetic, fashion, interior and product designers work toward. Read Article
A Bold and Bright Future for Car Colors



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EnnNorakEnnNorak - 5/25/2007 8:57:17 PM
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Bold colors are great but Volvo and Mercedes will probably continue to apply blackmail marketing techniques to force consumers to pay extra for the color they want. Mercedes is particularly nasty about this by taking advantage of the poor by charging extra for decent paint only on the C-Class.

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mp2dtwmp2dtw - 5/25/2007 11:10:01 PM
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Mercedes? Take advantage of the poor? Who next? Brooks Brothers? Neiman Marcus? Burberry?

Golly now, let's see; cheapest Mercedes MSRP before tax and dealer rip-off mark-ups (prep/doc fees, etc) is $30475. Who are these poor to whom you refer? Those at the Republican National Convention who had to take--gasp--commercial airline flights to get there?


jackpulsjackpuls - 5/26/2007 10:45:11 AM
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The Police should remove you from your keyboard...


TauronB2GTauronB2G - 5/26/2007 11:36:43 AM
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MB is particularly bad about that...their metallics are like 3 or 4 thousand bucks... this articly hit home I drive a silver mercedes and that paint was more than a few of the options. But Im not gonna complain...I can afford it!
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mbz350mbz350 - 5/26/2007 2:52:07 PM
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You must have gotten taken. MB charges $680 for their metallic paints. There are several colors that mb offers that are non metallic that are no additional charge.

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BillBill - 5/27/2007 1:44:22 PM
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Because some people prefer a Mercedes and don't want a Lexus (and vice versa)? Ever thought about that, kid?

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S4cabriofoxoneS4cabriofoxone - 5/28/2007 7:17:00 PMView My AgentSpace
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Mercedes charges $7,000 for the designo package, and $5K for the AMG bodykit on the S-Class! Ripoff!!!

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