BOLD colours are pretty badass. I love ‘em. Give me a colouring book and some BIG BOLD MARKERS and I’m sorted.

So it’s always appreciated here when car makers do colours well. Particularly when they’re backlit and glowing from one of my favourite motoring preoccupations, dashboards.

As promised in my knee-rub of the Golf R’s dials, here’s why I love my SEAT Exeo ST long-termer. Yup, its headlight switch.

Stay with me. Or, even if you don’t, savour the image. It’s like this:

•    Backlit in red
•    When the lights are on, the sidelight symbol changes to green
•    As it’s auto lights, when the function is active, this glows yellow

It means you get a veritable light-like kaleidoscope of colour at night: red, yellow, green. For nutters like me, it’s so unexpectedly appealing, it’s a treat to stop at traffic lights and stare.

Don’t unduly worry. We mutterers had a calling that means such things are, as you perhaps have gathered from this blog, everyday occurrences. Last week, for instance, I spent 10 minutes chatting with colleague CJ about the weighting of column stalks on said long-termer.

That’s a blog in waiting there too, I tell you.

In the meantime, I’ll get me coat.

Golf R dials cool blue point

Ford code read

My hit car colour of 2010