# It was the best of cars, it was the worst of colours **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 22, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923 "2024-05-22T18:26:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/41 "2024-05-23T14:00:43Z")
I’m not sure what color I hate most. I guess I’ll take the purple Hummer… Ugh. I just can’t. I guess a brown Cadillac. I used to drive a 1984 Oldsmobile Delta 88 that was a color I didn’t like, and I got used to it. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/42 "2024-05-23T14:44:18Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > I guess I’ll take the purple Hummer… > > Ugh. I just can’t. Purple hummer would be pretty cool. I would think hot pink would be a tough one for a guy; not that I dislike pink, but because of the cultural association, people would probably assume that it was my girlfriend’s (or mom’s!) car. Pantone 448C, the famous worst color, also came to mind, although [a Porsche in supposedly this shade](https://br.pinterest.com/pin/268456827768736727/) looks fine to me…far from my first choice, but not super hideous. Anyway; I would care much more about having a high performance car than the paint color. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/43 "2024-05-23T14:57:55Z")
I bought a used Chevy Trailblazer that was burgundy colored. Said ‘burgundy’ right on the title. I hate that color. But it was a deal, bought it, named it Ron, kept it until the transmission failed. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/44 "2024-05-23T15:00:11Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Car of my dreams, no loophole required. I can’t think of a color that I’d have such a visceral negative response to that I’d pass on a free dream car. This. I can’t think of a car color so repulsive that I’d refuse to be seen in it. A mud-brown Lambo is still a Lambo. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/45 "2024-05-23T15:11:58Z")
I’ve recently got some insight into this, as I’m babysitting my cousin’s car while she’s on holiday. Its definitely better looking than mine, including the colour. It’s a horrible thing to drive. Noisy, over-laden with features, poor acceleration etc. Not least of the problems is the reason I’m car sitting it. It’s a hybrid, and if you don’t drive it for a week the battery goes to zero and it won’t start. My car comes in bog standard white, doesn’t look anything special. But it drives smoothly and quietly and I can turn into traffic without waiting for a 500m gap. There is no question which of these two cars I prefer, and if mine were to be painted queasy yellow or turd brown or acid green I would still keep it - still more keep my dream car, whatever that is - because: When I’m driving the car, I’m not looking at the paint job. That’s on the outside. It’s not in view when it’s parked on my drive, so I only have to look at it when I get in it. The colour simply does not concern me for 99% of the time I am using it. What does concern me is: do I like driving it. Other people might not like the colour, they might even judge me on it, but I am a big boy now and I will get over that. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/46 "2024-05-23T15:21:25Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > A mud-brown Lambo is still a Lambo. I don’t see the attraction. [![](https://static.clubs.nfl.com/image/private/t_new_photo_album/packers/yi2bkfwyzzgaskq5pfr6.jpg) ](https://static.clubs.nfl.com/image/private/t_new_photo_album/packers/yi2bkfwyzzgaskq5pfr6.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/47 "2024-05-23T15:34:53Z")
> [@Stanislaus](#): > > My car comes in bog standard white, doesn’t look anything special. When vacationing in the Caribbean, we always rent a car. Color is never a consideration, they’re all white. You learn to remember where exactly you last parked, because all the cars are the same color and they are pretty much all the same body type. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/48 "2024-05-23T15:44:22Z")
I prefer certain colours, but there are few I dislike. I’d take the dream car and see if the colour grew on me, then sell it if it bothered me much. Colour is not in my top ten list. I might reconsider if “colour” meant it was covered in rhinestone butterflies or somesuch nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/49 "2024-05-23T15:52:26Z")
I’m probably going to be nuked from orbit by a squid-lord, because I’d take the “dream” car (the most expensive resale I can dream up) in whatever color they mind probe out of me and like others immediately resell it. Sell something in the Million USD + range, and then buy something reasonable like the RAV4 PHEV or Ioniq 5 my wife and have been wanting at the top of the trim range and bank the rest? Yes _please_! I mean, I need money far more than I need any sort of car. But I’m also one of the people that look at a vehicle as a way to get from place to place with as much reasonable cost and comfort as possible. And that’s all. I am not in any way invested in it as a tool, collectable, or hobby. Which is -fine- for me and very different for others, I fully grant. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/50 "2024-05-23T15:58:18Z")
Does “worst colour” imply a smooth coat of one monochrome color? Because that wouldn’t be so bad. What would be terrible would be if the paint were arranged to look like words…words saying horrible evil things that would endanger the owner. While thinking about this I remembered my daughter’s first car she bought on her own–she wanted to be independent so she went to some super sketchy place that sold her a car with an extended warranty that had the requirement that she would drive around with the sketchy place’s URL in big white letters on her rear window for a year. I read the fine print of the extended warranty and it was garbage, with gaping holes like “customer must have repairs performed at our facilities” [at our inflated prices]. Some years after she paid it off, when she wanted to sell it, she couldn’t find the title. She called “Sketch McSketch” up and the kind lady said “Oh, sorry, we still have your title. And we have a key as well. We’ll send it out right away” My daughter seemed surprised that they had a key–I explained that was for the Repo Man, and her eyes opened wide. Nice place. So if you ever wonder why someone would drive around with some tacky URL on their back window, wonder no more. It’s a string that shady dealers attach to some of their sales. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/51 "2024-05-23T16:02:26Z")
OK OP, [here’s my choice](https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/2024-mclaren-750s-spider-108-6446d5ee95b9f.jpg?crop=1xw:0.843375xh;center,top&resize=1200:*). Just ship it to me ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/52 "2024-05-23T16:39:51Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Purple hummer would be pretty cool. Here’s why I picked the Hummer as least favorite car. 1. Not good for the environment. 2. Rightly or wrongly it strikes me as sending a “Look at meeeeeee!” message. I hate cars like that. 3. Whatever part of my brain is responsible for parking cars is broken. I have no idea how I would wield such a huge thing. I have been driving my Honda CRV for close to five years and I still haven’t figured out how to park it. So much so that the last time I parked my car (correctly on the first try, I might add), my son piped up from the backseat, “Now we gotta fix it!” ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/53 "2024-05-23T16:56:17Z")
I was just focusing on the purple part to be honest. I also would never own a hummer, for the same reasons you outline. Even SUVs and pickups are too hefty for me. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2024, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/54 "2024-05-23T18:18:27Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > - No free car The income taxes I would owe on this would be tough to pay, if I took either of the other options. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/55 "2024-05-24T19:30:33Z")
I am a purist when I ~~drive~~ ` see a Ferrari it must be rosso corsa (racing red). Otherwise, if the inside of the car, engine and other mechanicals are good it’s a car I’ll drive. Throw a 350 into a rusty 1973 Vega and I’m good to go. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/56 "2024-05-24T19:45:46Z")
The uglier the color, the easier it will be for me to find it in the lot. So that’s a bonus to me! Gimme the ugly car. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/57 "2024-05-24T20:54:48Z")
What I have learned reading this thread: I do not have near enough imagination when it comes to what constitutes the “best of cars” or even just a dream car. ---
**Author:** ![Tride](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tride/32/13907_2.png) [@Tride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tride)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2024, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/58 "2024-05-24T21:19:56Z")
Yeah–I love fast cars and bikes and I have enough money to buy something cool (not McLaren cool) but a C8 Corvette? Sure. But without a track nearby what would be the point? People drive like idiots and I don’t want to die on a blind curve. Might as well enjoy my 50 hp dirt bike. But still, great car shitty color all the way. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/59 "2024-05-28T03:51:20Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > The uglier the color, the easier it will be for me to find it in the lot. So that’s a bonus to me! Gimme the ugly car. I was expecting a majority of Dopers to say best car/worst color. We’re practical folks. But this is the most practical comment so far. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923/60 "2024-05-28T03:59:13Z")
I’ve owned cars in colors far uglier than anything you could offer. Bring it on! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-was-the-best-of-cars-it-was-the-worst-of-colours/1001923.md?page=2)