VW Top Color Designer Gives Me Hope Car Colors Will Get Better
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Here at Jalopnik, we spend a lotof time moaning about where all the interesting, fun car colors have gone. I promise that this particular post won’t go down like that, though, because one of Volkswagen’s top color experts has given me and other complainers reason to be optimistic about the future.
Advertisement Jung Lim Park, Senior Color and Trim Designer at the German automaker, met with Automotive World to relay her predictions about the future of car color design. She starts by shedding some light on a misconception I always had, which is that Americans favor more boring shades and hues than our international neighbors. Turns out, a tendency toward neutral tones on sheet metal is human nature, and we’re not much better or worse than anyone else: