Not a hundred percent convinced by this colour: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-Fiat-Coup...=item4aeb1518a5

But then, I lived through the seventies and saw Mk2 escorts new...

Not so much'don't like', more least favourite. For me, it's repmobile blue. Doesn't stand out like an Italian sports car / GT should.

I had no idea there were so many different greens! Scott's green is not too bad and I quite like Energy green but Chamonix Green and Portofino are my least favorite

Porto looks like a white car that got in the wash with a blue sock and for that reason alone, it's my least favourite.

Oh wow, some seriously bad Porto vibes on this thread, I think I need to find somewhere else to hang out

But it is really only light metallic blue, if you want mauve / purple / murple, you want this

Oh wait, I see barnacle posted that earlier

very funny

scotts green leading , with porto a clear second followed by cronos [ nows the time to find a cheap scottie as no-one will want it on here !! ]

I don’t like porto blue. What colour’s my car? Oh yeah, porto blue. D’oh.

Any green or sprint blue.

All greens are naff closely followed by broom yellow and porto.

What were Fiat thinking?

Oh thanks Antony. It was oddly one of the rarest standard colour cars at the event and attracted quite a lot of attention. Mr Bangle was even heard to say "lovely colour" and also commented on the paint / interior combination He was probably tired of seeing so many LE's by then

I was quite surprised in Turin at how nice the early 16v flat white cars looked. I never thought that colour would work well on a Coupé but they looked fantastic.

Colours very much down to personal choice - each to their own and all that. Alot of people seem to think Green is unlucky for some reason but I like it on the Coupe. First Coupe I ever drove was a Scotts... TBH I like them all really - its just down to spec/options/add-on's that make the difference to me if a Coupe looks right or not. I know Crono is very marmite - I really wanted one before I got mine. It looks grey then blue in different lights but really needs to be kept clean to look its best. Same with black. Pininfarina said all car prototypes should be done in silver so as to best look like the original metal to best judge the design. Works for me - but then I would say that wouldn't I

Because broom yellow is so hideous

I'm not keen on silver cars, they look to me like they are waiting for their top coat. And black cars never look clean. Maroon always makes me think of an old man's car. I like all the other coupe colours.

I like the yellow, but probably from seeing it in the train driver poster, against a fake black background.

If you see one in the Scottish countryside in summer, it's now you see it, now you don't as it goes past the gorse and broom on the roadsides...

Grigio steel, then rosso corsa speciale (roughly translated as speed pink).

That’s a fisherman thing. Green is an unlucky colour for ships/boats. The general belief is that it’s as simple as green being the colour of land. There was an old superstition that even wearing dark green on a boat would cause the boat to ‘seek land’.

Took me years to find that out – I grew up in Hull and everybody knew green cars were unlucky, but nobody could tell me why until I went to to the Maritime Museum one day.

Not heard that one poprock and I used to be a merchant navy officer years ago.

The weather decks of all Shell tankers were painted dark green too.

yellow is the best colour

I think it’s a very ancient superstition and pretty much lost these days. I mean, there are plenty of yacht racing teams with green livery …

The Coupe is one of the few cars that can pull off being yellow and although I currently have a Wine Red Coupe, I do miss my Broomie

Chrono grey is a marmite colour, love it or hate it.........I love it, plus its the rarest of all coupes left in the world

Red is my other choice and yet I owned a scots green from new with tan leather interior (what was I thinking).

Not too keen on any green these days but don't mind any of the other colours

Silver. What an absolutely boring colour. Why would you have a rare, unique, exotic looking car like the Coop in such a drab colour that's more suited to a large family car?

Personally I think that Steel Grey is not my kind of color... but; on the LE it looks fantastic with the titanium accents! Other then that, I like black a little less.. the lines won't stand out nice I think.. just as in the interior.

Reading this thread and peoples varying opinions is quite interesting and has me thinking of other related questions?

1. What OTHER colour should Fiat have made the Coupe available in, if you could choose any colour at all from the same era?

2. If you were fully restoring a car and perhaps felt unsure about the original colour, then having eventually got to the respray stage, would you stick to the original colour, no matter what or venture out into something unique but hopefully still tasteful?

3. Would a restored car in any colour other than its original be "undesirable" to forum "buyers"?

Maserati Neptune Blue would be good on Coupe. I do wonder what flip fleck paint job would like on a Coupe as well.

I have a Scott's green and although unsure at first, now it's had a full respray and nice and shiny it's absolutely stunning, takes a different look and shade depending on the lighting conditions and really shows of the curves when not in full sun

Broom looks great but only in full Plus trim with nice shiny paint
Actually most of the colours do look good with fresh paint, silver I'm not sure as I have never seen one

If I had to choose a colour I don't really know but definitely more metallic fleck in the paint or pearlescent
I have seen a coupe that looks In between broom and orange possibly broom with pearl? Think it's on eBay advertising front screens
Also think a darker metallic blue would be nice
But on the whole they all look pretty decent with fresh paint!

I think most coupe enthusiasts would be put off by colour change from original factory but maybe that's just my opinion. If I was to choose an original coupe colour then I would have definitely chosen an oyster pearl white (similar to 3M 1080-SP10 Satin Pearl White) which looks almost matt

I imagine some matt colours would also suit the coupe