I like the current BRG on MINIs but would love to see another shade of green. Overall the color choice for the car tends to be to dark. I think the Chrome Orange from the Elise would look killer on a Cooper. The people that do the colors spend to much time in a city. MINI needs to send them to New England in the fall.

John

 

Traditional Sports Cars come in three, and only three colors. Red, Black and White. In a concession to Ferrari, sometimes yellow is added. BRG is added as a concession to MINI heritage

CR and BRG will NEVER be dropped. The heritage just will not allow for it. My guess is the PW will go to be replaced with a traditional white. I would have loved to have bought a white having owned many white cars but alas, MINI just didn't sell them.

Other colors like beige, light browns, light silvers, etc. come and go as fads. For example, in the early eighties, beige was a popular choice. Similarly, you will see a lot of silvers for "executives".

Courtesy of S Baker, here are all the colors, retired and current
http://www.sjbaker.org/telamom/colours/

 

Oh, I think they could/might drop the current CR and BRG - they would just have another shade of red and green. Every car company does it if just as marketing in the hope the changes even inspire current owners to upgrade. Sometimes the name changes other times its just a version II or III of the color (which BMW does pretty frequently with popular colors - ie Bright Red and Alpine White which came in I, II, etc).

 

OK, I will rephrase ... they will always have a "ferrari type Red" and a dark green. They might call it something else, but they will never drop those hues ... just would be wrong.

 

I don't think anyone knows what might be discontinued next. They dropped several colors that were not very common (Silk Green, Velvet Red, Solid Gold) and one that was one of the popular (Indi Blue).

They really want to keep us guessing. :impatient

 

i wonder if MINI takes color forcasting into consideration? anyone here work in any field that uses color forcasting that could shed some light?

some interesting info about color can always be found here:

http://pantone.com

 

Oh man, I gotta disagree here. Originally racing colors represented the country of origin, ie - USA = white, France = Blue, Britain = Green, Italy = Red, Germany = Silver.

Think blue Bugattis and silver Mercedes 300SLRs. Those are the equals of any red, black or white sports car I can name.

 

If MINI makes Laguna Seca blue available, I'm going to be first in line for one. My favorite color on a car, EVER.

First the M3


Then my photoshopped MINI of my dream. I wish there was a better way to paint it.

 

--Yeah a whiter white would be cool. Like pearl white, or vapor white. The pepper white just adds to the egg illusion. I know a couple people who come to the MINI side just for one of those colors alone.

--pyratio

 

Maybe not the first time....but yeah, that blue really does stick in my head. What a hot mini color that would be....

 

I think that a real BRG and the BMW Imola Red (that dark M color....) would be great to add to the list...

 

Isnt Solar Red the equivalent to Imola Red (Cooper only though ).

 

To me Solar looks akin to Sienna Red (orange-y metallic, hard to capture the highlight in photos), nothing like Imola (blueish red flat). Imola is a beautiful deep color red mostly reserved for the 'M' cars.

Random online pic of Sienna:


Imola:

 

On the subject of MINI perhaps dropping Pepper White and going to a more traditional white. The original Mini never came in a bright white, cuz I had a 1959 white Morris Mini Minor and can attest to it [I still have a color pic of it with me as a 17 yr. old ]. The car was an off white, like a putty or an eggshell color, and it never changed whether it was polished or not. It was just a "blah people mover white". The Pepper White is actually more of a light coffee cream. I think it should stay, as it masks dirt very well.

Jeff

 

I'd like to see some more wild colors for the MINI. They want to keep the car unique so why not do that? Going to the same basic colors as others would be a big mistake.


I hope they do discontinue BEP so my purple haze becomes a masterpiece.

 

Agreed. Although I really think DS is a very classy color.

Next color to go: DS or Royal Grey - I just think these two are too close to each other.

mb

 

The list posted above was just a guy going to MINI2 and doing searches of people profiles. In addition to the standard user info, they allow you to select a variety of other parameters so there is quite a bit of info there. However, it is not neccesarily representative of all MINIs built as the sample is a subset of people who are registered at MINI2 (those who chose to give extra info) which is itself a small subset of all MINI owners.

 

have you seen RG in the flesh? I think it is quite different from DS....this, of course, if you are into casket colors!

-jac

 

I wonder if they make caskets in CR with bonnett stripes and driving lights?

Of course then there was Willie the Wimp in his Cadilac coffin. I think it was white.

 

wasnt talking about Country Colors but sports cars in general. I read that years ago in one of the car mags like Road & Track.

Ferrari Red, White and Black. Yellow and BRG ok on some cars. Then again, I wouldnt call a MINI a traditional sports car anyway I guess Cobras were blue and they WERE sportscars.

 

Tecnhically USA was white with Blue suspension or Blue stripes. Japan is white with red suspension or red stripes

 

Maybe i'm wrong, but I think MINI has been trying to phase out the non-metallic colors. How else would you explain the absense of both jet black and liquid yellow on the 2006 MINIs? If you want black, you have to pay extra for "astro black" Jeez...

Someday, they'll figure out a way to make chili red metallic and phase out the cheaper version.

That way, they get to charge everyone an extra $500 or so without having to make the unpopular decision to simply raise the MSRP.

 

Once upon a time I thought it was true that you could apply any of the current BMW colors to a MINI on order for an extra $1,000? No? (Not that everyone in the world would want to drop an extra grand on a special BMW color...but is/was this every true?)

 

I did think that it was odd that out of all of the colors the MCS offers, only 2 are at no additional cost. I wanted PW anyway and i was happy to see it didn't cost extra. I can't imagine MINI would ever make ALL paint colors addition cost! They gotta keep 1 or 2 at no additional cost.

 

No, I have definitely not seen it in person. I'm going on pics posted on this site that show DS right next to RG, which are probably completely different on everyone's screen rendering my opinion worthless.

I'll have to wait to see for myself in person, but my computer screen reveals them as similar

Oh, and to all of the banter regarding ///M colors on an MCS - SIGN ME UP TOO! I would certainly drop CR for Imola red, Laguna Seca Blue, Estoril blue, Avus Blue, oh man there are so many wonderful ///M colors, I'd even go for Cinnabar Red eventhough it's pretty close to Chili. Oh man, could you imagine an MCS in carbon black????????

The possibilities...

mb