The color of your car
07-12-2007, 07:39 PM
#12
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RE: The color of your car
"Darker colors were also much more popular than colors on the other end of the spectrum, which helps explain why lighter colors commanded less money on resale. We guess only the white 2008 Taurus is the safest car in America."
...which also explains why they are more likely to be involved in an accident....cause there are more of them..
other than an article based on people miss-reporting statistics... I guess I'm screwed.
...which also explains why they are more likely to be involved in an accident....cause there are more of them..
other than an article based on people miss-reporting statistics... I guess I'm screwed.
07-12-2007, 08:32 PM
#13
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RE: The color of your car
it speaks to the drivers of white cars, not to the car itself.
I can see it being true, after all you are probably more likely to be a tame driver if you bought a tame color.
I can see it being true, after all you are probably more likely to be a tame driver if you bought a tame color.
07-12-2007, 08:46 PM
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RE: The color of your car
Ill have you know my car is a sexy bitch! Also the reason people driving darker colored vehicles is b/c when they see me rolling in the white stang they are looking at my car with their tongue hanging out thinking I should of got that color and they slam into the car in front of them.
07-12-2007, 09:07 PM
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RE: The color of your car
ORIGINAL: azstanglover
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/07/12/d...n-a-car-crash/
Seems all of you with dark colored cars should take out more life insurance. [sm=smiley2.gif]
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/07/12/d...n-a-car-crash/
White cars may be a bit boring, but a recent study from The RAC Foundation showed that light-colored cars were up to 12-percent less likely to get into a serious accident than darker colored vehicles. Statistics also showed that the accidents that the lighter colored cars did get into were also less severe. The study was done in Australia with all accidents resulting in death, injury, or the car being towed between 1987 and 2004.
While light-colored cars were definitely safer, they also had a lower resale value. Over the 18 years covered in the study, white cars were worth up to £500 less than darker colors. Darker colors were also much more popular than colors on the other end of the spectrum, which helps explain why lighter colors commanded less money on resale. We guess only the white 2008 Taurus is the safest car in America.
While light-colored cars were definitely safer, they also had a lower resale value. Over the 18 years covered in the study, white cars were worth up to £500 less than darker colors. Darker colors were also much more popular than colors on the other end of the spectrum, which helps explain why lighter colors commanded less money on resale. We guess only the white 2008 Taurus is the safest car in America.
07-12-2007, 09:21 PM
#16
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RE: The color of your car
I've posted about this before and gotten slammed. I counted 18 out of 23 cars in my parking lot that were white, silver or grey. I'm amazed at the number of white, silver and grey cars on the road. (Black is a much rarer case, but still fits the arguement.) Don't get me wrong,I like they way the Mustangs look in all those colors, it's just amazing to me the level of non-color commitment among drivers these days.
07-12-2007, 09:50 PM
#17
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RE: The color of your car
Its a well established fact. White is the new Black. Especially in Europe right now where everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. If white isn't in your line up of colours your market research sucks. Asa large portion of people wanting a sporty car want it in white. Its gone from being the colour no one wanted and thought was for police cars / work vans to being the colour everyone wants.
My only thing is its just not as in your face enough for me. Prefer red or yellow. Plus I have a red car now and the number of women who have commented on the colour means im staying with red. lol.
My only thing is its just not as in your face enough for me. Prefer red or yellow. Plus I have a red car now and the number of women who have commented on the colour means im staying with red. lol.
