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Jun 26 2009 8 Comments

Inconceivably colourful car

Despite there being no shortage of variations to pick from when purchasing a new vehicle in Japan, a huge number of cars — approximately 78.56% at a rough count — are somewhat insipidly either silver or white. A decision that apparently has something to do with these two colours being easier to sell second-hand, which may, or indeed may not, be true.

However, regardless of the possible reasons, for some at least this kind of favouritism is unfathomable, with one or two even going as far as countering such conformity by not only opting for a less common colour,

Japanese custom car

but also a combination of all those currently classified.

Japanese custom car

Along with a dozen or so others that were previously deemed undocumented.

Japanese custom car

Categorized: Odd

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  1. Jonathan says

    6/26/2009 at 7:36 pm

    That type of paint job would be damn near impossible to find over here if any car like that exists, I actually think theres laws regarding paint jobs in Ireland, I know they have strict laws on modding. I know that you can’t get your windows tinted to a certain degree and certain exhausts are banned.

    Its great though to see this find Lee 🙂

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    • Lee says

      6/27/2009 at 12:50 pm

      I can sort of understand why tinted windows would be illegal, but apart from terrible taste, what’s the problem with paint jobs?

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      • Jonathan says

        6/27/2009 at 10:09 pm

        I’m really not too sure Lee, I know paints and essentially custom mods on cars are frowned upon here. They’re always seen as racers, ‘boy racers’. The police here generally label people who drive those cars as that. Its pretty lame because I’d say thats only the real case about 20-30% of the time, every other time its just people that like to customize their cars.

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  2. The Envoy says

    6/27/2009 at 3:22 am

    The magic bus?

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    • Lee says

      6/27/2009 at 12:51 pm

      Not sure what it is, apart from bloody awful!

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  3. Tornadoes28 says

    6/28/2009 at 2:38 am

    Psychedelic.

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  4. Chris Willson says

    6/28/2009 at 5:25 pm

    I just bought a car in Japan and the color I got is… white!

    In Okinawa a white or silver car helps to keep things just a little cooler. Of course if I bought at Ferrari I would do the appropriate thing and get it in red.

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  5. Johnny B says

    6/19/2010 at 3:11 am

    What I wanna know is why someone would put this much time and money into a car and then just leave it to rot. It’s been sitting there for a while. It doesn’t even have plates.

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