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3.26.2007

What Color is your Ride?


Each year, DuPont Automotive releases its Color Popularity Report, a study analyzing and predicting color trends by model type and world region. In 2006, silver was the most popular color in North America, making up 19 percent of all vehicles. White, gray, black and blue rounded out the top five. My "Bamboo Pearl" (light metalic green) didn't even make the list. My wife's gray ride made the list, along with my parent's blue. My neighbor just bought a new silver SUV. He's always had a silver vehicle.

Colormatters.com has a survey that a car's color tells about the personalities of the people who drive them. Black reflects an aggressive personality and is the color car most likely to be in an accident (no doubt a favorite at the White House.) Silver means someone is cool, calm and slightly aloof. Green indicates hysterical tendencies. (Not sure where my "Bamboo" fits in, maybe mildly hysterical) Yellow reflects idealism, and white is for status-seeking extroverts. Cream is self-contained, controlled and least likely to be in an accident.


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