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Why don’t car makers turn out brown cars any more?

Why hasn’t any car manufacturer ever produced a solid brown-coloured car since the Austin Allegro back in the 60s? What is so wrong with brown? It’s not as if it’s going to show the dirt, is it?

Peter Hanson, Whitestone, Exeter

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