It's a lovely colour (my lass has made it quite clear it's her favourite, despite mine being green), but why is it called Reddish Blue? Blue and Red are completely different colours, yeah? What's going on?

Stephen

 

Isn't that Purple?

 

No. Purple is blueish red

 

Like this one ?



chrisp

 

oh my gawd, that looks hideous.

i am colour blind mind you, so it could just be my lack of red colour definition that makes it so hideous to me

 

I think that the reason it's called 'reddish Blue is that there are are some red flecks in the paint mix, under certain light conditions mine changes a sort of purple colour
To quote Vickie Vale: 'I just lurvvve purple...' ...

Tim

Incidentally check out Catalunya or a Black import, they've got a red fleck too, they turn a sort of Aubergine colour...sweet

 

Mine's reddish blue too and I'd wondered that, until my friend's daughter said "whose is that purple car?". It does look a bit purple under certain kinds of light. Looks marvellous when Zymol'ed up as well.

 

chrisp - I hope that's not yours!

davidg - yeah, yeah - don't go on. I can't see it myself, and I think green is <I>way</I> more classy...