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It's not unpopular to say that there's too many gray and silver cars. People have been saying that a lot the last few years. I just don't run into a lot of people that prefer green. I don't have a Ford Bronco but that green color is the the best color on the market today in my opinion.
You would have loved my metallic orange Honda Fit then.
Not that it matters, but actually metallics don't mix with reds. The hard part about orange is getting red to weaken into more of a yellow while retaining vibrance. When you start adding whites, the color goes tan. Typically reds act more like dyes too. I think that is why they don't mix with the texture of metallics the coarseness of the metallic particles causes then to sit too high in the red and this makes them show through as little dirty silver specs.
Pretty much all vibrant colors are made using pearl additives, they are much smaller in size. Some mixing systems sell them as liquids that are already with a clear binder, but I mostly used dry powders. They all look pretty close to white until they get wet with the other colors. Once wet, they really pop. Some of them need an additional layer too. Like, paint the surface a solid color, then spray a clear binder mixed with pearl, then do the 2 part urethane clear coat. That last type is the most expensive, most vibrant, and hardest to repair. IIRC that orange on the Fit was a 2-tone pearl. Scion had a few like this with a lime green and orange at one point, the bright red from the Mazda 3 was also a 2 part. All of those had no metallics in their paint, all the sparkley bits were pearls.
But yeah, that Fit would have been worse than a nightmare if I saw it roll into my shop. There is a good chance I'd have to buy the unique pearl just to mix that paint at like ~$300 for a bottle.