Not dookie brown. Other lighter shades of brown that are more coppery. It has to have a metal flake in it to look good. MIL has a brown 2013 Civic. It's about the most inoffensive non-traditional color in person.
Now where's my brown manual diesel station wagon (that's not a VW)?
My local water treatment is still bombing a early90's chevy in turd hurder brown. It staple of my town.
I have looked at three new chevys. All brown, need a new wite off for the farm.
I can only remember ONE car in truly "brown" paint that I ever thought really wore it well. A neighbor had a '73 Dodge Charger SE with a white vinyl roof, much like this one but with white instead of gold interior:
It takes a large, long, sleek car to pull off brown exterior paint, IMO. Golds, coppers, tans, etc. are a lot more forgiving than chocolate/cocoa/dookey brown.
The third-gen Chargers were also really popular in dark green, which is a color I REALLY like and would like to see make (another) comeback. We bought an emerald green metallic '93 Eagle Vision TSi during the first green comeback, about the time my daughter was born.