Pragmatism instead of poetry
05/16/2023
What do an African horn bearer, a South American ornamental plant, an Italian dessert, a Greek city and a Scottish ball sport have in common? That's right, they all refer to the paint color of a car. But while "antelope" and "nasturtium" are more or less the same basic color, "pannacotta", "marathon" and "golf" require a little more imagination.
Names such as "Krypton green" or "Angora blue" at least indicate the direction in the color wheel - albeit the wrong one. The noble gas is colorless, the fur of the Turkish cat is white. To avoid getting bogged down in such contradictions in the first place, Ford did away with any hint of poetry in the Taunus P6 and named the ten colors as simply as unmistakably: from "White" to "Light Green Metallic". Nevertheless, there was still a little room for imagination: what might "Red I" have looked like?
