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From: 茨城県
This is my take on it. It is not meant at anyone personally and does not necessarily apply to particular cars looking different in particular colors.
I think white, black, and grey are not colors. White reflects too much light and washes out every detail of the car. Black does not reflect enough light so it hides every detail of the car. Grey is just the indecision between black and white. It also gives a sad, depressing feeling.
But people will argue to no end how white is so clean and classy, and black is so dark and mysterious. I think the choice of picking a color is much more because the fact that many people conciously or unconciously are driven by the way society looks at them. What will family, co-workers, friends, etc. think of you if you bought a yellow car? Instead of standing up and enjoying the choice, people just give up and pick something neutral. In exchange, the personality and individualism are completely lost. You will see people like this ask others what color they should get.
The other angle is also prevalent. Many crave attention they are not getting elsewhere so they pick the red/yellow/lime color, craving to get that look-at-me factor.
Also all the urban myths about darker cars getting hot quicker or red cars attracting the police are completely untrue.
I say get whatever you want and screw what everyone else says
Here are two excellent articles on global car color trends:
http://autos.canada.com/autoshow2007/story...ca-7945d47070a7
http://www2.dupont.com/Automotive/en_US/ne...le20061129.html
I think white, black, and grey are not colors. White reflects too much light and washes out every detail of the car. Black does not reflect enough light so it hides every detail of the car. Grey is just the indecision between black and white. It also gives a sad, depressing feeling.
But people will argue to no end how white is so clean and classy, and black is so dark and mysterious. I think the choice of picking a color is much more because the fact that many people conciously or unconciously are driven by the way society looks at them. What will family, co-workers, friends, etc. think of you if you bought a yellow car? Instead of standing up and enjoying the choice, people just give up and pick something neutral. In exchange, the personality and individualism are completely lost. You will see people like this ask others what color they should get.
The other angle is also prevalent. Many crave attention they are not getting elsewhere so they pick the red/yellow/lime color, craving to get that look-at-me factor.
Also all the urban myths about darker cars getting hot quicker or red cars attracting the police are completely untrue.
I say get whatever you want and screw what everyone else says
Here are two excellent articles on global car color trends:
http://autos.canada.com/autoshow2007/story...ca-7945d47070a7
http://www2.dupont.com/Automotive/en_US/ne...le20061129.html
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From: Tucson
Originally Posted by watchdogd,Jan 23 2008, 11:44 AM
