To give you my personal opinion, yellow clashes with the elegant and sleek style of the brand Mercedes is trying to present. When I see a yellow car, I either think 'cheap run down taxi' or 'high end sports car', it doesn't fit with the mid range semi-luxury vehicles aesthetically. I guess it's because what we're culturally accustomed to.
To choose both a bright color and a luxury make is signaling to people that you want them to notice your fancier than average car. They are responding to this perceived flaunting of wealth.
Re:Has the world become less colourful?
by yamazakiwi on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @04:29PM
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It's children, they most likely just thought the yellow looked jarring compared to less loud colors they are used too.
For what it's worth, I think yellow is the definitive colour for a 1970s British sports car:
https://uploads.carandclassic.co.uk/uploads/cars/triumph/118...
That's orange. (I like it)
Re:Has the world become less colourful?
by yamazakiwi on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @04:29PM
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It's macaroni yellow
They are really confused and in disbelief when I tell them that no, it was intentional.
The advantage (other than me just liking fancier colors and disliking the prevalence of grey in cars) is that I can find my car in even the largest parking lot from very far away, and that people instantly recognize me as it's seemingly the only yellow Mercedes-Benz in the town where I live (~100.000 inhabitants) ;-)
Recently I overheard two kids (a boy and a girl, around 7 or so) who drove by my car on bicycles, loudly proclaiming "I would never drive a yellow Mercedes". I wanted to ask them why, but they were too quick (and probably embarassed that I overheard them). I would really love to know if it was their own (genuuine) dislike of the color yellow, or if it was something they acquired from their parents or something like that.