Buying a car

RaymondLin

LOL.

STILL undecided. 

I want a Velostar, I want a temporary car (only 2 days ago), now back to I want a Velostar.  It’s not about buying a car, merely committing to a decision would be progress, not in car buying but in life. 

TTony

Emp_Fab said:

It's either that one......  or I hold on for a yellow one.....  I can't decide which is the better colour....

Wis’d @Emp_Fab ;

Ignore the peer pressure here to just buy something, take your time, and make sure it’s the right car for you.

Green or Yellow is a tough call, and you don’t want to rush in and buy something that you’ll regret later.

Emp_Fab

SouthpawMark

I’d say the slightly less bad colour is the green. Yellow suits certain cars, but the mighty Veloster ain’t one of them. 

thumpingrug

I like the yellow, but that's because the green hurts my eyes.

digitalscream

Emp_Fab said:

I think I'm sure...

On the other hand...the green is basically "Grandpa's trundling shopping trolley", whereas the yellow is "That baby sick that nobody wants to have to deal with", and they would be even on a Ferrari.

You have some strange tastes, man

Sesh

Bought a car yesterday. Meh.

Majorscale

There’s now a second green velostar on Autotrader. Common as muck!

(Private seller, under 6k and a manual.)

*edit there’s 4! The one in Fareham looks in good nick. Still prefer the white one with dark alloys for sale @ carshop in Cardiff though.

Emp_Fab

Thing is....  Yellow is a funny colour...  pale yellow says "watery custard.....  weak and thin" to me, but a deep yellow is a bold statement.  Citroen had a lovely yellow on their Saxos for a while - it had a tiny touch of orange to it.... gorgeous.  It was that that turned me on to yellow cars.

Now I have to decide...   yellow is in danger of sitting somewhere on the line between 'bold & confident' and 'honk-honk, drive around the circus ring with a man with orange hair and giant shoes running after it".

Green on the other hand says "mint choc-chip ice-cream....  cool....  eye-catching but not in a "Toddler's first broom-broom, designed by playschool" way as the danger is with yellow.

On the other hand, yellow IS a 'Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me' colour - and if you're going to go balls-out, don't fuck about I say.

Kilgore

It would be prudent to hold out for the colour you won't like next week but like this week and not buy that one rather than not buying the colour you don't like this week but liked last week.
 Or the other way round, whatever works for you. Just grab the bull by the horns, be decisive but take your time, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush when the grass is greener...

DiscoStu

There are 32 listed on motors.co.uk!
Including a burnt orange (my choice) in Llandudno.

https://www.motors.co.uk/used-cars/hyundai/veloster/?page=1&sort=4

SouthpawMark

Just buy any colour Veloster and get it wrapped in exactly the colour you desire. 

Just. Buy. A. Veloster. 

RaymondLin

DiscoStu said:

There are 32 listed on motors.co.uk!
Including a burnt orange (my choice) in Llandudno.

https://www.motors.co.uk/used-cars/hyundai/veloster/?page=1&sort=4

It has to be Automatic.

p90fool

Emp_Fab said:

Thing is....  Yellow is a funny colour...  pale yellow says "watery custard.....  weak and thin" to me, but a deep yellow is a bold statement.  Citroen had a lovely yellow on their Saxos for a while - it had a tiny touch of orange to it.... gorgeous.  It was that that turned me on to yellow cars.

Now I have to decide...   yellow is in danger of sitting somewhere on the line between 'bold & confident' and 'honk-honk, drive around the circus ring with a man with orange hair and giant shoes running after it".

Green on the other hand says "mint choc-chip ice-cream....  cool....  eye-catching but not in a "Toddler's first broom-broom, designed by playschool" way as the danger is with yellow.

On the other hand, yellow IS a 'Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me' colour - and if you're going to go balls-out, don't fuck about I say.

And nothing says 'Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me' like a small Korean hatchback.

Kilgore

Congratulations Emp, 50 pages. A truly heroic effort. 

HerrMetal

Green AND yellow is of course the answer.

DiscoStu

Have we overlooked something? Has Emp actually driven a Veloster yet?
He might take one out then realise it's not for him and we're in for another 50 pages!

RaymondLin

DiscoStu said:

Have we overlooked something? Has Emp actually driven a Veloster yet?
He might take one out then realise it's not for him and we're in for another 50 pages!

As far as I know, he hasn't.

He loved it like he loved the CR-Z, until he got inside. 

But it's okay, popcorn is cheap.

boogieman

Yellow cars always remind me of the old BT van livery. Bloody vile. That acid green isn’t much better mind 

Octafish

DiscoStu said:

Have we overlooked something? Has Emp actually driven a Veloster yet?
He might take one out then realise it's not for him and we're in for another 50 pages!

Pah, the driving bit is surely irrelevant. More important to worry about what totally disinterested members of the public think about the colour as they pay no attention to it driving past or parking in a supermarket car park...