Red is a man's colour, a risk taker's colour. It's for fast things, and rare things. Not Nissan Micra's and Ford Mondeo's. It might make the drivers feel like they're in something exotic, but all it serves to do is dilute the visual impact that a red car has.

Therefor, red should only be available on RWD cars with upwards of 190bhp/ton.

How do I best get this request up and running?

 

Write to Nissan and Ford?

I think only Italian cars should be red, but that would take you a lot longer to write all he letters that would be needed

 

absolutely..

it's a good safety warning that the car infront might break down at any moment..

 

 

I only know about Ferraris

I believe all the other Italian cars are crap in terms of reliability (please don't tell me Lambos are Italian any more)

Certainly old, poorly maintained Ferraris break down a lot

But that's probably true of any make

Fortunately I think the days of owning old/unreliable cars are behind me

Although, next year I intend to buy an F430 or an F40 (both would be a little pretentious)

I think the F40 is the riskier proposition

 

I had a red alfa once... wasn't too bad.. bits fell off it now and again..


the italian red paint seems to be gradually changing for the worse..

used to be much darker - now it's a sort of malboro/vodafone red.

 

...and plastic cars should be left unpainted:P:

 

Lancias, Fiats, Alfas - all have a well earned reputation

Pre Audi Lambos are probably no worse than pre-360 Ferraris or any other supercar really

I can't bear unreliability

That lottery of 'will it/won't it break down this week?'

niggles are ok - they can even be characterful, say on a classic

but breaking down - that I cannot be doing with

see, this is going nicely o/t, and much more interesting as a result

 

the top gear challenge of driving just 60 miles in a 70's italian sports car I think proved the point..

the lambo couldn't generate any volts..and spent more time on the AA van than the road.. the maserati only had 80hp left from it's engine which then disintegrated.. only the GT4 (I think?) had enough electricity and horsepower..

wouldn't be very keen on having anything like that, even if it was for free..

 

If you couldn't drive an Exige every day, I doubt you'd like an F40.

An F430 is surely on most people's dream car list.