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i typically like any colors that hide dirt pretty well.
that said, i have a cream interior on my explorer and it was fine. i also had a near white interior on my g90 and it would get bits of denim blue on the seats but that would clean off EASILY, thankfully.
since you buy used you can let someone else take the hit.
Damn right. I totally get it and respect those that just have to have new cars.. I do... But you lose thousands of bucks the second it's driven off the lot.
What bugs me is YOU GET TO SEE THAT STAR every time you drive.
To my way of thinking, hood ornaments are a nice touch. I'm sorry to see that most automakers, today, have abandoned them.
And, at one time, you did not necessarily have to get an expensive or luxury vehicle to get one. I had a 1965 Buick Skylark that had one, and the 1974-75 Plymouth Valiant/Dodge Dart offered them in some trim levels. All three were relatively inexpensive compacts.
Damn right. I totally get it and respect those that just have to have new cars.. I do... But you lose thousands of bucks the second it's driven off the lot.
.....you may also get at least some, if not all, of that initial-loss back at trade-in, because a newer, lower-mileage vehicle, particularly one in good condition, will be worth more at trade-in.
To my way of thinking, hood ornaments are a nice touch. I'm sorry to see that most automakers, today, have abandoned them.
And, at one time, you did not necessarily have to get an expensive or luxury vehicle to get one. I had a 1965 Buick Skylark that had one, and the 1974-75 Plymouth Valiant/Dodge Dart offered them in some trim levels. All three were relatively inexpensive compacts.
I don’t consider the BMW roundel a hood ornament lol
Yes, good point......I don't either, but I was just using that as an example of what kids used to do. I was a victim of that myself, once, with my '95 Celica. While I was at a restaurant at Tysons Corner, in a parking garage, they ripped the chrome Toyota emblem off the trunk..which required not only replacing the emblem itself, but also a trunk-lid repainting. GEICO took care of it....without raising my rates. The body shop did not get the placing of the TOYOTA CELICA letters on the trunk-lid back in the correct alignment...but, to me, that was not a big deal. They stacked them vertically instead of the correct horizontally.
TOYOTA
CELICA
Last edited by mmarshall; May 17, 2026 at 05:41 PM.
Yes, good point......I don't either, but I was just using that as an example of what kids used to do. I was a victim of that myself, once, with my '95 Celica. While I was at a restaurant at Tysons Corner, in a parking garage, they ripped the chrome Toyota emblem off the trunk..which required not only replacing the emblem itself, but also a trunk-lid repainting. GEICO took care of it....without raising my rates. The body shop did not get the placing of the TOYOTA CELICA letters on the trunk-lid back in the correct alignment...but, to me, that was not a big deal. They stacked them vertically instead of the correct horizontally.
TOYOTA
CELICA
I HATE when body shops get that wrong. It makes the back of the car look immediately like it’s been in an accident. Such a lazy thing for the body shop too.
