Inspired by a jest (in a PM) from Rick, is there any evidence to this UL?
While not exhaustively researched, it appears to be untrue.
You got it wrong. Red cars don’t get more tickets. Red cars go faster.
I’m sure we’ll get the usual complaints about anecdotes not be data but I have had a red acura for 11 years and never gotten a ticket in it (and even got out of one when I probably shouldn’t have.)
Communist cars deserve more tickets… oh, wait a minute…
But only 1" a turn
Isn’t it likely that with red being a pretty normal car colour, they’d get more tickets than other colours? Not percentage-wise, but in actual numbers.
Just an idea… nothing to back it up with I’m afraid.
A former girlfriend/ fiancee of mine (sometimes referred to in the Fidelius houshold as "the crazy bitch from Jersey) was a firm believer in this. She always seemed put off that I received no moving violations in my red Honda while she seemed to get a speeding ticket every other week in her gray piece-of-crap whatevermoblie.
She did not seem to grasp the correlation between speeding and getting tickets, and that regardless of the colour of the car if the driver is obeying the law then the police will not “hassle” them.
(Whether the colour of the driver is a factor is a subject for a different discussion.)
Worm–
My unselective observation leads me to believe that the most common colour for cars in the US is grey. I remember back when cars used to come in different colours, but eighty percent today seem to be some shade of grey.
OH… guess car colours sell differently in different countries. Red ones are a dime a dozen in the parking-zones here.
And gray? How drab
I thought green was the fastest color. Money is green and nothing goes faster than money.
I could run a query tomorrow to find out the percentage of red vehicles infringed, but how would I know how many red vehicles are on the road? Hmmmmmm.
Wouldn’t that be in DMV-records?
I know they have it all on record here, but I’ll be damned if I can find it online
Grey?
I see Silver and White and Beige and Metallic Gunmetal, but I almost never see a “Grey” car.
Approximately 99.99999999999999999% of cars in Sydney these days are some variety of silver. I used to quite like silver as a car colour, but I’m extremely over it. I also used to dislike red for cars, but my current one is red, and I like it because it’s not bloody silver.
I don’t get tickets though. It’s an old beater, and even when that particular model was new, it was a thoroughly boring, suburban runabout. I suspect red cars in general might get slightly more tickets, but they’d also be more likely to be sporting cop-magnet bling.
Wow. Imagine how fast would red money go. With flame decals.
White around here. I counted the cars in a small parking lot not long ago, and of the 29 cars in the lot nearly half were white.
Gotta love any message board where you can find several people in a general interest board that know Warhammer 40K.
I had a friend who swore that green cars have more accidents, something to do with people not noticing them due to trees in the background. Or something. She claimed - without a shred of evidence - that insurance companies charged higher premiums for green cars. She didn’t even have one, so how she thought she knew I cannot imagine.
Hey, if you want insanely anecdotal stuff, here’s one…
Back in the early 80s (when they had those square Ford Falcons here), Ford put out a lot of cars in a type of gunmetal blue. Not a bad colour to look at, but it used to disappear against the colour of the road (especially in shade). I remember one time, I came to a T intersection, looked both ways, saw nothing coming in either direction for a very long way, pulled out, and one of these Falcons was right on top of me - it had come out of a shady spot. A few other times weren’t such near misses, but I still noticed that these cars used to appear from nowhere. In those days, I had hawkeye vision too.