# What is the color of your vehicle? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 5, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480 "2021-05-05T20:58:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Paxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@Paxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paxx)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/1 "2021-05-05T20:58:40Z")
_Poll ([view on site](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/1))_ I had arranged the order of the colors based on my non-systematic observations in the Toronto area but the list rearranged the colors by number and then alphabetically. Here’s my order: - White - Silver - Black - Grey - Red - Bronze - Blue - Green - Brown - Yellow - Orange - Pink - Other Also, I’m guessing that dopers with unusual colors are more likely to respond to the poll. Probably goes without saying but I’ll say it anyway: If you have more than one vehicle, pick the one that you use the most often. Only one choice in the poll. Please provide details in your post e.g. bright dark blue or silvery pale blue. All of my cars for the past 20 years have been either silver or dark grey but I would like my next one to be dark red. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/2 "2021-05-05T21:14:27Z")
My previous car was a red wagon – much easier to spot in a car park than my current silver four-door. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/3 "2021-05-05T21:15:32Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > a red wagon [![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/97/b5/1d/97b51d0fd1dbd150618f102d670a6b7b.jpg) ](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/97/b5/1d/97b51d0fd1dbd150618f102d670a6b7b.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/4 "2021-05-05T21:20:21Z")
It was once white. I bought it used, so the color was not really my choice. (well, it _was_, but you know what I mean) ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/5 "2021-05-05T21:27:15Z")
Ice Silver My third silver based car, other 2 white. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/6 "2021-05-05T21:32:07Z")
As I have a Subaru, it’s World Rally Blue Pearl. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/7 "2021-05-05T21:33:07Z")
Mine is “Candy Red Metallic” – when I decided to buy a Mustang, I wanted a cool color, too. 😃 FWIW, the actual distribution of new car colors in North America, for the 2020 model year: - White 26% - Black 19% - Gray 19% - Silver 12% - Blue 10% - Red 9% - “Natural” 2.5% (I’m guessing that’s tan, beige, etc.) - Green 2% - Other 0.5% Source: [http://www.ppgautocoatings.com/Color/Popularity.aspx](http://www.ppgautocoatings.com/Color/Popularity.aspx) ---
**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 5, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/8 "2021-05-05T21:35:44Z")
I know you have “other,” but I’m surprised you don’t have “gold” ahead of pink and orange. (That _might_ be classifed as “natural” under @kenobi_65’s chart.) I’m lucky if I see a pink car once a month, but I’m pretty sure I see a gold one every day. My last car was gold. My current one is silver. My preference would have been to get a kind of darker red but the car on the lot that I wanted was boring silver, so I went with the silver. My wife’s is white, yet another non-color I’m not particularly fond of. I feel like growing up in the 80s, there was more variety of colors in the 70s and 80s vehicles on the road, but perhaps I’m only remembering the colorful cars. I just hate the monotone-ness of today’s traffic. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/9 "2021-05-05T21:35:47Z")
Hmm… beige, sand. I just looked at the nationwide rankings and was surprised to see that tan/beige/sand is now very uncommon. When we bought the car in 2004 it seemed completely mainstream and boring. (I’m not sure what color “bronze” is in the OP’s poll.) ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/10 "2021-05-05T21:45:13Z")
“Iridium Metalic”. Kinda, sorta black/dk grey. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/11 "2021-05-05T21:48:36Z")
My Sonata is blue. **FCD** ’s caddy is black. Our pickup is white. But I voted blue because I’m active here and he isn’t! In the past, we’ve had brown, 4 different greens, three reds, silver, 2-tone blue, white, black, burgundy, gray, 2 different blues… yeah, we’ve owned a lot of vehicles in the last 37 years. ---
**Author:** ![Paxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@Paxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paxx)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/12 "2021-05-05T22:01:48Z")
> Pulykamell > I’m surprised you don’t have “gold” ahead of pink and orange. I think I was including it in “bronze”. Strange, too, because goldish silver (or silvery gold) was the color of my car 20 years ago and I agree with you: it is more popular than pink or orange. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/13 "2021-05-05T22:03:34Z")
Black. All other colors except white I believe costed extra. No way. Since 2005. Before: white (ugh!), light blue (boring), dark blue (that was nice). But those were already like that, I bought them second hand. And a black motorcycle with two thin white stripes (BMW R100R, 1994)). And a red one before, with a white swoosh (Yamaha SR500, 1988). Mhhh…, that is less vehicles than I thought. Am I missing some? I believe not. Strange. And half of them bought new? 🤔 ---
**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 5, 2021, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/14 "2021-05-05T22:03:51Z")
Ah – yeah, I could lop that into “bronze.” I must have glossed over it looking for “gold” or even “beige.” My gold car I would describe more of as a warm silver or halfway between gold and silver, but definitely not plain silver. I believe the color name on the vehicle papers was “gold,” though. In some light it looked more silverish if you didn’t have a color reference. In others, more gold. This color: [![](https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDgwWDY0MA==/z/-C8AAOSwFOleRSRo/%24_58.JPG) ](https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDgwWDY0MA==/z/-C8AAOSwFOleRSRo/%24_58.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/15 "2021-05-05T22:11:30Z")
Velvet Pearl. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/16 "2021-05-05T22:14:45Z")
I’ve noticed that most manufacturers offer a number of different silver/gold/pewter shadings. My suspicion is that the PPG report I quoted above lumps most of them in with “silver.” I’ve also read that part of the reason why the “boring” colors (white, black, gray, silver) are so popular now is the belief that a non-standard color can negatively affect your resale price. ---
**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 5, 2021, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/17 "2021-05-05T22:35:38Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I’ve also read that part of the reason why the “boring” colors (white, black, gray, silver) are so popular now is the belief that a non-standard color can negatively affect your resale price. That makes sense, but it positively affects your ability to find your car in a crowded park lot or garage. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/18 "2021-05-05T22:50:56Z")
Crimson Pearl, which is darker red than it sounds. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/19 "2021-05-05T22:59:05Z")
Does Maroon count as Red? It’s not what I’d picture if you told me that a car was red, but it’s the closest of the options you’ve given. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480/20 "2021-05-05T23:08:58Z")
Mine is silver and it’s my second silver car in a row. Prior to that I had red, blue, green, blue and two differently blue race cars. But, after the “catch me red” car (which was bought used), I went low key. I’d love to have a copper, lime green, or a Hello Kitty pink car but my budget doesn’t stretch to that. It won’t happen unless I win the lottery. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-color-of-your-vehicle/941480.md?page=2)