MkI color availability compared to dealer brochures Q

[roccit_53 at hotmail.com (C Boyko)]

>On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, C Boyko wrote:
>
> > But on the topic of MkI colours, Klaus is Hummingbird Green Metallic. Is
> > that a cool colour name for a tiny agile car or what!!! ( I just 
>confirmed
> > the translation for 'Kolibri' in dad's German/English dictionary)
>
>Hummingbird?  Good grief.  I gave and acknowledged Klaus' masculine
>persona (although I'm still convinced he's a she!) but could they not have
>come up with a more beefy description for that green than "hummingbird"
>green?  "hunter" green is much more suitable.  "dead bug on the sidewalk"
>green might have been better than hummingbird green... :)


Hummingbirds DO come in males, IIRC, and the best colours are on the males 
of the species. And they are fiercely territorial, they're pretty scrappy 
little birds.

>
>(Teasing you Cathy - hummingbird green is a damned fine colour in my
>books.)
>
>Drew (and Carrots, the God of War Red car)

The sooty grimy God of War Red? So much for the photo ops on that one. 
<ducking>
Cathy

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