# What color is your car (or other motorized, street-legal vehicle)? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 5, 2013, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759 "2013-07-05T22:52:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PaulParkhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PaulParkhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulParkhead)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/21 "2013-07-06T02:50:21Z")
It’s a dark blue Peugeot 206. Interior is mainly black. The clocks are white, though, which I find unusual. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/22 "2013-07-06T02:52:43Z")
> [@missred](#): > > What? No love for Carolina blue? 😃 > > My truck is dark cherry (red) and the bike has an electric blue and black thing going. :dubious:😉 ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/23 "2013-07-06T02:56:54Z")
I voted “green” because our best (newest, most pleasant to drive) car, a Ford Escape, is a light metallic green. The car I drive to work is an older Nissan Sentra that started out silver (okay, actually gray) and is now patchy silver/gray because Nissan’s paint apparently sucks. ---
**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:** [July 6, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/24 "2013-07-06T03:10:18Z")
Silver Nissan Frontier King Cab. ---
**Author:** ![nion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nion)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/25 "2013-07-06T03:47:17Z")
1991 POS Buick Park Avenue dark blue exterior AND interior 😃 She used to not be a POS, but 22 years can be hard on a car. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Stendhal\_Syndrome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Stendhal\_Syndrome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stendhal_Syndrome)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/26 "2013-07-06T05:30:45Z")
A silver VW Jetta TDI with black interior. And it has a sunroof. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/27 "2013-07-06T05:41:03Z")
Black Honda Ridgeline. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/28 "2013-07-06T06:01:11Z")
Orange Honda Element. ---
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/29 "2013-07-06T06:10:24Z")
Georgia Bulldog red Suburban, with black trim and a gray interior. (Also, maroon Toyota pickup and black Chevy van, but I seldom drive those, since the car seats are installed in the Suburban.) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/30 "2013-07-06T07:02:24Z")
Current car is German, so silver. I try to follow the old international racing colors. My MG was British Racing Green. ---
**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreasyJack)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/31 "2013-07-06T11:19:00Z")
My Dodge truck is… uhg… “Patriot Blue.” It’s a pretty color, but I was somewhat dismayed the first time I saw the color code and name. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/32 "2013-07-06T11:49:21Z")
Silver - d’uh. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Whitney\_Harper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@Whitney\_Harper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whitney_Harper)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/33 "2013-07-06T12:08:41Z")
My car is silver. A car salesman told me that silver cars are the best for hiding dirt, in other words, a dirty silver car does not show the dirt as much as cars of other colors that are not washed. I’m sure the salesman was accurate, as I have no reason to doubt him. Although my favorite color is blue, I don’t really care what color my car is, as long as it works well. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/34 "2013-07-06T12:11:06Z")
Dark Blue Nissan Pathfinder, '06. Black Dodge Ram 1500 Regular Cab short bed, '04. Gonna be my new plow truck. Need to put a blade on it yet this summer. I plan to put a winch on the back. It should be a great platform. Silver Chevy C10 short bed 76. The plow truck I’m retiring. Brownish Grand Jeep Cherokee, '02. My Wife’s car. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/35 "2013-07-06T13:16:25Z")
[My 2011 Scion XB LE is Voodoo Blue](http://carphotos.cardomain.com/story_images/1/2108/2461/5268730001_large.jpg). (This isn’t my car, just a pic of the same model I own that I found online.) I answered Light Blue in the poll, even tho it’s really closer to Blue Blue, like Ford Truck Blue. ETA: Vehicles I still own but don’t drive anymore include my yellow 1978 Chevy Blazer and my brown 1972 Cadillac Eldorado. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/36 "2013-07-06T17:15:51Z")
Red, red, red. Not dark or light, just RED. (Its official name is “Velocity Red Mica,” and it’s got sparklies in it that are only noticeable when the sun is out.) ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/37 "2013-07-06T22:53:25Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > Part of my interest in this thread, by the way, stems from the fact that I recently spent two weeks doing a lot of shopping for a new car. And one of the first salespeople I met with pointed out to me that despite all of the varying colors available, the vast majority of people buy white or silver. Ever since that conversation, I have noticed that this seems to hold true, at least on LA’s streets and freeways. I’m wondering if that’ll be true in this thread, too. I’m wondering if it’s also an issue of availability. I live in a smaller place and they’re only going to keep the most popular makes and colours on the lot. If you don’t want white or silver, you’re probably going to have to have your car shipped in, which takes weeks. People want to drive their new car off the lot. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/38 "2013-07-06T22:58:00Z")
> [@kushiel](#): > > I’m wondering if it’s also an issue of availability. I live in a smaller place and they’re only going to keep the most popular makes and colours on the lot. If you don’t want white or silver, you’re probably going to have to have your car shipped in, which takes weeks. People want to drive their new car off the lot. That’s how we ended up with silver. My preference would have been blue, but we could only find silver locally in the make and model we wanted (at least without spending an extra few grand for options we had no interest in). And we wanted it quickly because we had an upcoming road trip that we doubted the old car would survive. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/39 "2013-07-06T23:10:33Z")
Presently: dark blue 2010 Mazda 5 minivan (used) Previously: dark blue 2000 Ford Focus wagon (new) Tucson bronze 1995 Ford Escort wagon (used) white 1989 Dodge K-car 4-door sedan (new) dark green 1981 Ford Escort wagon (used) light yellow 1970 Toyota Corona 4-door sedan (new) dark blue 1969 Toyota Corona 2-door hardtop (new) beige 1968 Toyota Corona 2-door hardtop (new) light blue 1967 Toyota Corona 4-door sedan (new-totaled after 6 months) powder blue/crème (2-tone) 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 2-door hardtop (stick shift) (used) crème/black 1954 Ford Victoria hardtop (used) dark green 1950 Ford 2-door coupe (stick shift) (hand-me-down)(first one I ever drove) black(?) 1952? Chevrolet sedan (new-won it in a Fourth of July raffle when I was a kid)(Dad sold it next day as he and Mom never drove a car) ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759/40 "2013-07-06T23:11:25Z")
Electric Blue Dodge (Neon) SRT-4 Black Ford Mustang GT. the former because they only offered the car in like five colors and I liked that one the best; the latter because the dealer had it in stock and it was close enough to what I wanted where I was happy with it. Otherwise I would have preferred Kona Blue. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-color-is-your-car-or-other-motorized-street-legal-vehicle/662759.md?page=3)