What can you say about your car color?

[dbuzz]

Well mostly people will say .."hey i like the color of my car..its me dude".

Some will really argue that the color of their car is the best ever.

but some will say "ahh its a mistake" or "it's not really my choice" or "its not me"

rumors are:
red = takaw accident and takaw pansin.
black = para sa mga bigatin(oppss bigatin may ari nya) but takaw din sa accident kasi di gaano nagre reflect ng light.
ang lastly, but i don't think na rumors pa rin kasi factual ito, black or any other dark colored cars are super init pag nabilad sa init mas mainit kaysa other light colored cars.
white = mahirap linisin but tipid sa aircon (it minimizes the absorbtion of heat)

I don't know if there's a statistic about these.

[Automahn]

There are statistics re car colors and the incidence of accidents among them, just try to Google it.

However, I don't let these statistics or stereotypes about colors influence my color choices for a particular vehicle. Ako, kung ano yung bagay na kulay sa isang model ng auto para sa 'kin, yun ang kukunin ko. Isa pa, I believe nasa nagmamaneho yan kung gano kadalas ka mabangga.;)

Mahilig talaga ako sa red pag sa sedan that's why Habanero Red ang kinuha ko for my FD. The only disadvantage I see is that mahirap siyang hanapan ng touch-up paint kasi di nila makuha yung exact shade nung color.

[awing]

Undeniably, I don't like the color of my car. I prefer the monotone of either white or black. As I am after of the mods and aftermarket 'borloloy' that I'll gonna do to my future car.

When I purchase my car(2nd hand), the availability of the latest model 06 was the one i chosen and nothing more. My GF settled for it coz she said it is formal and fit for a medium sedan. So we finalize to get that car. I don't have much regrets since I got the latest model and that color doesn't bother me after all.

[baiskee]

i like black...mas na a-ppreciate ko kasi paglilinis ko pag makikita mo kung gano kakintab ang black.

[pup2]

Hmmm. Throughout my life, the only car colors I've had are beige (1), silver gray (2), midnight blue (1), red(1), green (1), and gold (4).Yung beige, I liked kasi visible siya pero cool at hindi dumihin. It's rare that a color like that is available nowadays though. Yung silver gray, OK din pero kung maitim ang shade, hindi masyado visible (i.e., binangga ako). Yung blue at green, mainit sa loob, bukod pa sa hindi masyadong visible (pero hindi ako binangga). Yung red, OK naman siya very visible, moderate temperature, kaya lang very visible din ang dumi (depende sa tingkad).The gold is like the beige -- wala akong makitang disadvantage -- kaya I've had 4!! Gold is the new beige! ahahaha.

[Lucius]

White is a headturner. Pero it's not just the ride, it's the rider hahahaha. Mas madaling makita white, pag pinupunasan ko nga parang ayoko na umakyat gusto ko na lang punasan palagi hehehehe

[VtEC]

http://biz.yahoo.com/brn/070914/2258...pf=family-home

Color Popularity Survey (Sept 22, 2007)
The numbers reflect the percentage of vehicles manufactured during the 2006 model year in North America, as compiled by DuPont.

1. Silver 19%
2. White 16%
3. Gray 13%
4. Black 13%
5. Blue 11%
6. Red 11%
7. Light Brown 7%
8. Green 4%
9. White Pearl 3%
10. Yellow/Gold 3%

Silver - "When the light hits it and refracts, it shows off the vehicle's architectural form beautifully."
The color has other advantages, too: It hides dirt, it's an enduring favorite and it's easier to resell than other colors. (In the United Kingdom, many police agencies have switched from white to silver, because the silver cars fetch a higher resale price -- up to 10 percent higher than white cars -- after they've been pulled from the fleet.

[empy]

what can i say about my car color?

i have the two colors that are most difficult to clean - white :seeth: and jet black :seeth: :seeth:

[Mr. Clean]

http://biz.yahoo.com/brn/070914/2258...pf=family-home

Color Popularity Survey (Sept 22, 2007)
The numbers reflect the percentage of vehicles manufactured during the 2006 model year in North America, as compiled by DuPont.

1. Silver 19%
2. White 16%
3. Gray 13%
4. Black 13%
5. Blue 11%
6. Red 11%
7. Light Brown 7%
8. Green 4%
9. White Pearl 3%
10. Yellow/Gold 3%

Silver - "When the light hits it and refracts, it shows off the vehicle's architectural form beautifully."
The color has other advantages, too: It hides dirt, it's an enduring favorite and it's easier to resell than other colors. (In the United Kingdom, many police agencies have switched from white to silver, because the silver cars fetch a higher resale price -- up to 10 percent higher than white cars -- after they've been pulled from the fleet.

i think i made the right choices based on the survey, my FD's Silver (#1) and my Fort's Gray (#3), hehe...

[dbuzz]

http://biz.yahoo.com/brn/070914/2258...pf=family-home

Color Popularity Survey (Sept 22, 2007)
The numbers reflect the percentage of vehicles manufactured during the 2006 model year in North America, as compiled by DuPont.

1. Silver 19%
2. White 16%
3. Gray 13%
4. Black 13%
5. Blue 11%
6. Red 11%
7. Light Brown 7%
8. Green 4%
9. White Pearl 3%
10. Yellow/Gold 3%

Silver - "When the light hits it and refracts, it shows off the vehicle's architectural form beautifully."
The color has other advantages, too: It hides dirt, it's an enduring favorite and it's easier to resell than other colors. (In the United Kingdom, many police agencies have switched from white to silver, because the silver cars fetch a higher resale price -- up to 10 percent higher than white cars -- after they've been pulled from the fleet.

[SIZE=3]Black[/SIZE][SIZE=3] cars denote an aggressive personality or someone who's an outsider or rebel.
Silver cars indicate someone who's cool, calm and slightly aloof.
Green cars can often be chosen by people with hysterical tendencies.
Yellow cars signify someone who is idealistic and novelty loving.
Blue cars are chosen by the more introspective, reflective and cautious driver.
Gray cars represent those who are calm, sober and dedicated to their work.
Red cars denote those who are full of zest, energy and drive and who think, move and talk quickly.
Pink cars are chosen by gentle, loving and affectionate drivers.
White cars represent status-seeking extrovert drivers.
Cream cars are the least likely to be involved in accidents and denote self-contained and controlled owners.[/SIZE]

[batang_raon14]

What I can say about the colors of my cars, which are all black is, it's either yikes or nice because you'll never know how shiny or how scratch-filled it is after a good wash from a long drive.

[jaspi11]

magnifico.

[dbuzz]

We've reached the end of the season, and its time for the post-season revues. Very few argue about the actual results, but most fans have definite and differing opinions on the relative merit of their handfull of favourite drivers. In the majority of sports everything is done to have an even competition so that the best player/team wins. Fans can argue about who will win, but after the match/race everyone has to agree about who was better on the day. The great advantage of F1 as a spectator sport is that the competition is anything but even, given the different cars and motors, and the designated first and second drivers within the teams. Even knowing the whole season's results doesn't settle the many friendly arguments on which driver is better than which other.
Given the difficulty of comparisions, the use of detailed statistics is increasingly popular when trying to justify a given driver ranking. The most convincing of these cases is comparing the qualification results of teammates driving the same car. Comparing such similar situations seems logical on the surface, but the logic is seriously flawed.
In high school physics we were taught that taking the difference of two similar measurements can give a very large error. The example I always remember is trying to calculate the width of the line across the goal on a football field by taking a ruler and measuring the distance from each side of the line to the goal at the other end. The two quantities measured are so similar that taking the difference of the two will leave a result so error prone that you may even end up with a negative result! Doing the same experiment by measuring from a point right next to the line will be much more accurate, as the two measurements are nowhere near as similar as before.
Thus to get a low error, we need to compare quantities that are very different. Following this logic, the performance of two teammates during qualification are similar quantities, so subject to high measurement error. We can only really be certain of relative performances by comparing vastly different quantities.
To illustrate this point, I've chosen to compare Schumacher and Inoue, who are in my opinion the best and worst drivers on the grid. Schumacher started with the relatively new team Jordan, a team now known for spotting talent and one of the very few new teams to be doing well. Inoue started with the relatively new team Simtek, a team now known for now not existing, and one of the many new teams to have done poorly. Schumacher soon moved to Benetton, a team with the money to offer itself a rising star. Inoue soon moved to Arrows, a driver with the money to offer himself a rising team, or a least a team that will be around longer than Simtek. As Schumacher's experience in F1 accumulated, his obvious talents brought him growing attention. As Inoue's experience in F1 accumulated, his obviously powerful sponsors brought him growing attention. Schumacher's performances saw the FIA award him the world championship. Inoue's performances saw the FIA introduce the 107% rule. From this comparison we can deduce that Schumacher is a better driver than Inoue. The certainty of the decision that this theory provides is startling.
The theory can be extended to compare drivers with other large differences, such as distance. We can compare the two sons of former greats that are separated by the the Atlantic, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. Their names would have opened lots of doors for them, but now that they're at the peak of the competition in their resective continents they can no longer rely on their names. At this level, only money and driving skills count. Villeneuve is very young (24), the youngest Indy car champion ever. This shows that his raw talent has carried him up very quickly from the lower grades of competition. Hill, who's just turned 33, has taken somewhat longer to progress to the front of the pack. This shows a longer learning curve, so experience has played a greater part in his rise, and as a consequence talent has played a lesser part. Villeneuve earned the title of "Rookie of the Year" for his first year of Indy competition. Hill didn't earn a whole lot of qualifications in his first year of F1. Villeneuve won the championship this year, in a car that was not seen as one of the top last year. Hill has the car that most agree is the best of the field, but still lost the championship. With the distance between the measurements in this example, we can confidently assert that Villeneuve is a better driver than Hill. Of course next year they will be teammates, a few metres away from each other, thus any comparison would be too error prone to take seriously. Even if Hill beats the pants off Villeneuve we know that the measurements taken many thousands of kilometres apart show the true picture.
Another possibility of a large difference is to compare the first and last drivers when listed alphabetically. We find Alesi first in the list and Wendlinger last. This is a very interesting case, as it goes against appearances. Alesi, with his bright red car and latin blood in his veins, seems to always be driving at 110%. He is often very well placed after the first qualifying session, but loses places on the Saturday - as the other drivers were tuning their cars on Friday rather than pushing each lap to the limit, so they ended up with better cars on Saturday. Wendlinger, on the other hand, followed pretty much the same training as Schumacher before coming to F1. While Wendlinger attracted much less of my attention than Alesi or Schumacher, I expect the same cool, calm and calculating approach as Schumacher appears to have. So based on these observations, I'd expect Alesi to be the hare that is fast but unreliable, while Wendlinger would be the tortoise, that plods along but picks up the points. However looking at the stats, Alesi comes out on top of the reliability comparison. Both drivers had accidents last year, Alesi missed a couple of races with a sore back, Wendlinger missed a couple of races in a coma fighting for his life. Alesi finished 53% of the races he entered this year, compared to Wendlinger's 33% (Frentzen managed 70% in his Sauber!). Even though Alesi drives harder than Wendlinger, the fact that Wendlinger crashes harder and reaches the end of the race less frequenctly means that Wendlinger is actually driver past his personal limit. The conclusion is that Wendlinger's limit is much lower than Alesi's, and thus Alesi is the better driver of the two.
The only negative aspect of this method of comparison is that it would need a lot of data in order to compare all of the drivers. While similar (and therefore error-prone) statistics can cover the whole grid, large differences generally involve only a couple of drivers. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to investigate other aspects that will lead to valid comparisons. An easy beginning would be based on car colour (difference across the spectrum), a more challenging approach would be to try to find out each driver's shoe size.

[Jun aka Pekto]

Steel gray metallic on the 3.3L 06 Sonata, Ford beige metallic on the 2.5L 1995 Contour. In short, anonymous colors which suits my personality just fine. I have no desire to stick out on the road or anywhere. That way, if I'm naughty on the road, I'll be harder to track..... Plus, those 2 colors do a good job hiding the dirt/dust. No speeding tickets with either car.


The last "colorful" car I had was my blue 1991 Plymouth Laser RS Turbo. I got 3 speeding tickets with that. Prior to the Laser, I had a red 1986 Nissan Pulsar. What's depressing is 2 speeding tickets with the Pulsar which is strange for a car with 55 hp.

That's why I'm not one of those "Look at me!" type of people. It pays not to stick out of the crowd.

[hyperthread]

Sa akin black ang hirap imaintain but pag bagong linis at wax champion sa ganda.

[mbeige]

I was cruising home together with my friend in his red Civic Si hatch and me in my diesel. Biruin mo at 10 or 11 that night a police car that was "scanning" or ambushing people for speeding (40mph zone) drove out of his hiding, cut in front of me (politely) and proceeded to check out my friend who was in his Civic. I was behind so tahimik lang ako.

I guess red easily catches their attention especially if you're driving at night no matter how stock looking your car is. To think, I was in my diesel and was travelling a bit faster than 40 when my friend was actually slowing down already

Eventually the police car made a right and took off after realizing my friend has no records and the car isn't stolen.

Funny thing is, I was already thinking about that kind of circumstance before we even left sabi ko sa sarili ko he might get "targeted" by police cars. My friend even uses side streets because of this, para hindi sa major roadways dadaan pero I guess the cop was just where we didn't expect him to be. Oh well...

[empy]

^looks like your friend was being profiled. the Socal police are notorious for that kind of behavior - they look at types of people or cars that they think usually do illegal stuff (like they probably thought..."red Civic Si? must have illegal mods or street races) and find some way to check them out or pull them over.

in West LA where i grew up, my friends called it "DWB" (driving while black)...talaga kasing pinag-iinitan yung mga young black guys eh

[recklus]

white, it looks clean, yun nga lang i have to keep it clean pag nadumihan kasi ang dungis talaga ng look. my other car is machine silver, looks nice, parang nagiiba color, pag under the sun it looks like it has a shade of gold, normal silver pag makulimlim then parang dark gray at night. hahaha then again it might be my imagination!