Colors that get the most tickets?
 

Part of my decision making for buying my next car is what color I should get? I like Black, Maroon, Navy Blue, Silver, and Metallic Green. But my question is, what are the top colors that get the most tickets? I want to avoid those colors.

Thanks in advance

The color that gets the most tickets is the one you drive the fastest and stupidest in.

Go to snopes.com and do a search, and you'll find that most of the arrest-me-red stuff is an urban myth.

One of my first cars I painted Guards Red. When I got my first ticket the cop told me it was "Arrest Me Red."

knock on wood, I have never gotten a ticket in either of my red Porsches. Crap - now I have surely jinxed myself :eek:

I love that response, and would agree that it is going to be the #1 reason for getting a ticket.

Next is going to be what you drive. It does matter what you drive, unless everyone else is driving the same exotic looking vehicle as yourself.

Then maybe color doesn't matter too much? I figured it would to some degree.

Thanks and keep the responses coming, but lets stay serious.

If you ask the police, they will say gray. Why? because when you count up the number of tickets issued, more gray cars are cited and that's because there are more gray cars on the road. What you really want to know is, what colors attract the most attention. Logic says that bright, vivid colors (why are fire engines red--or day-glo green? Why are school buses yellow?) and, of course, the colors mentioned by Gogar!;)

I'd say any color on your list would be relatively safe, save the metallic green if it's a bright, vivid green like lime or viper.

I think for a stacking tolerance color could matter, but each situation is going to be unique. That is, you own a Porsche and are speeding 10+ mph on a road where the other cars (mostly economy cars) are also speeding the same as you are. With a color of guards red, it would be easier to get picked out of the crowd. Unless, the majority of the other cars are also bright colors. If the other cars are going the speed limit, then you might not stick out as much, but probably not since your driving a hot car.

It's all about blending in or not I suppose. Since far less people drive Porsches, that is going to be the biggest pit fall to breaking the law. Even if you drive an economy car and blend in with traffic, going 10+ mph faster than the group will make you a lot easier for cops to see.

So I'm already seeing that color isn't going to be a big factor at all. Wether or not you blend in with the other cars on the road is. Car for car, speed for speed, color for color combination.

coffee out MY NOSE ONTO SCREEN ON THAT ONE!

LMFAO!

i personally chose ................."IN-WIZZ-ABLE"..............under the radar stealth coating!


kuzzin to AURORA project!

Studies show that red and black are popular colors among "agressive" drivers (who tend to speed and, logically, get more tickets).

Red cars pretty much look black at night (what's the percentage of tickets given after dark?).

Three retired cops, whose dogs have also retired from the hunt, that I've asked about this over the years chuckled (I always get the chills when a cop, retired or not, starts chuckling) and said it doesn't matter what color, If you get a cop's attention and are speeding, you get ticketed.

Studies show that a preponderance of law enforcement officers are genetically disposed to becoming VERY irritated wnen seeing the colors red and black in motion at ANY speed.

A surprisingly high percentage of law enforcement officers are known to be prone to anaphylactic shock and therefore exhibit a propensity to avoid pulling over yellow cars due to their "bee-like" color unless they are traveling WELL over the posted speed limit (ask me how I know this - I'll tell you I don't).






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Radar is color blind.

Today with radar (etc.), any vehicle is susceptible; they sit, point, shoot, give chase. I get passed more by women in SUV's than anything else. (Statistics)

I'm no cop, but I would also assume ANY exotic car, Ferrari, Lambo, Vette, Porsche or even a pimped out ricer, anything that says "I am a automotive enthusiast" will draw their attention...it would mine. Most people don't drive those cars because they are slooooow.

Regardless of color...ignore the statistics and drive carefully.

I don't think color matters, it seems to have more to do with type and condition of the car. Of the cars that I see pulled over around here 90% are a little beat or funky in some way. I think that the cops are using the speeding as an opportunity to pull over a suspicious looking vehicle to check for other things.

I've been pulled over 3 times in the past 6 years in my signal red 911 ... driving substantially over the limit every time and let go with a warning all three times. I'm polite, admit that I was speeding and apologize. Knock on wood, it's worked so far. I have gotten 3 tickets in my dark green ute and my wife's silver Volvo wagon in this same time period. :rolleyes: :confused:

Color DOES make a difference. I swear, my car has the Cloak of Invisibility. The color is called "Rauschquartz" metallic, or Smoky Quarts Metallic. Sometimes called Quartz Grey Metallic. At any rate, it's a bit of a chameleon in terms of "What color is that?" A but brown, a bit grey, with some pink and purple hues. Interesting color. Cops can't see it. The car pictured here is not my car, but the photo does a decent job of illustrating a fairly hard-to-photograph color.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1187885237.jpg

For a time, my friend had a Z1R Corvette in a smoky blue metallic color. Both that car and the one above always seemed to be the same color as the pavement.

I don't know about the color thing, but I remember well my first ticket when driving a P-car. The local cop said: "You guys in Corvettes and Porsches are just money in the bank for us."

Two other things that probably play in my favor:

1) I'm a calculated driver. I went well into triple digits the other day on the way home from work, but mostly I let someone else draw the attention. I pick my moments. I watch carefully. I'm old. Which brings me to........

2) I'm old. Well, not old old, but I'll be fifty next month. My hair is mostly grey. Cops do like to pull over cars with dings, failed lights, etc. They can probably add additional citations such as failure to carry liability insurance. Young punks aren't very good at keeping their ***** together, and not very good at defending themselves. Old farts can be much more troublesome. (wink)

+1. I think a cop would much rather get a speeding/pot or speeding/meth or speeding/you'vegotawarrant combo than a plain 'ol speeding ticket from some dentist stereotype in a Porsche.

Or, don't forget the trifecta - speeding/pot/you'vegotawarrant. SWEET.

Anyway, Brent- My uneducated guess is that all the traditional '80s "exotic" colors are easier to spot when going fast in traffic. Red,yellow,black, maybe silver. But who knows. Half the cars on the road these days seem to be silver.

My next door neighbor is a county Sheiff's Deputy. (Nice because I now know which roads to avoid a "spirited" drive on. According to him, what he looks for changes based on why he is in that particular location clocking cars.

If he has gotten complaints about speeding on a certain residential road, he will probably pull everyone over that he can. He wants the news to get out that they are cracking down in that area so he stops getting complaint phone calls.

If he is watching an intersection because of an increase in accidents, he is going to ticket behavior that will cause accidents at that intersection.

If he has been told: "Nothing is going on today, go write some tickets", he is much more likely to be lax on drivers because he is not enforcing due to a specific problem. He will probably only go after the most egregious drivers.

Seriously?

Would you not rather choose a color of your own taste...?

The probability that a specific color on your specific vehicle will change the risk of being pulled over - all other factors considered - must be close to zero.

I disagree. It's partly a matter of simple optics. Glance out to a freeway full of cars and if there's a Speed Yellow Porsche in the left lane, guess what car you will notice.

It seems since there are so many silver colored cars that silver would be the best non-associated ticketed car. Even though more tickets would be given to silver cars, it's only because there are so many of them. Again, it's all about blending in with the majority than anything else; your driving habbits, your car, your car color, in that order.

-Driving the speed limit vs. speeding

-Owning a Honda vs. a Porsche

-The color Silver vs. Guards Red

(or the other way around)

Anything from the majority makes you a more likely target. So color will matter to some degree, but in many more cases it will be your actions and what car your driving that will get you the ticket.

I can tell you from experience that a Silver Dodge Dually will get you a ticket for 81 in a 60 in Webster Grove Mo.

I found that out last Friday. I seriously thought that the speed limit was 70 on the interstates in Mo. But a less than friendly motorcycle cop showed me it wasn't so! (never did see the signs)

I get to try to explain that to a Judge at the end of September.

my first car was an 81 firebird, rattlecan painted gray primer.


cop magnet.


otherwise i hear that the whole "red cars get more tickets" thing is a myth.

I agree...I was on I-5 South driving to Coronado this morning. I spotted a bright yellow 99something in my rear view mirror at least a 1/2 mile away. What I didn't notice was the dark grey 911 Carrera just behind and to the left of him until they both passed me.

They couldn't keep their eyes off my blue rental mini van:)

There used to be an old office building next to the freeway near me that the County used on Tuesdays and Thursdays for traffic court. The parking lot was very visable from the freeway.

There was always a large percentage of red cars in the lot.

"Anything from the majority makes you a more likely target. So color will matter to some degree, but in many more cases it will be your actions and what car your driving that will get you the ticket."

I think driving fast but staying in one lane helps, the people that are noticed first are cutting in and out of lanes.

OLDER VOLVO'S ARE STEALTH

cops think they are boreing and slow

but with a turbo and tuning they are NOT
but seldom get tickets

and unlike a Porsche , with Volvo's turbos eazy to add on
with eathor stock or aftermarket parts
and cheap too

A Volvo with larger turbo still equals a brick.

It seemed like every time I rode my (red) VFR I was getting pulled over, but not necessarly ticketed every time. In defense of the LEO's it did seem to encourage behavior that would draw their attention. But now on a silver BMW with bags I seem nearly invisible to them.
Jim

definately get light green metallic
i got stopped, for no reason, all the time with this one :

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1188165596.jpg

it stood out during the day, at night, in summer, winter, whatever the circumstances, it was visible from a mile away

my black 911 targa, never stopped
my black 944, never
my current 944S, marashino red, never

and the 924 was the slowest one of the lot
and i did drive it slower then any of the other ones

even parked, people came to look at it more then any of the others "oooh a Porsche", even if many here and elsewhere consider it a VW