The Color Of Your Car Means Your....

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Does this mean that Jackie O with his BB2 has 14.6% less confidence than average?


Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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With gas prices nearing $4 per gallon, are there any cheerful drivers left on the road?

Well, if there are, chances are they're driving a green car.

People who own emerald green automobiles, it turns out, have the most positive attitude about the course of their own lives.

Dark blue and silver are other colors chosen by upbeat people.

Red supposedly connotes an aggressive, high-speed personality, while yellow, theoretically, is for folks with sunny dispositions.

But survey data show that people who drive red or yellow cars have below-average confidence. And black cars, supposedly a sign of power and elegance, are driven by the most downbeat drivers of all.

The automotive color-coding comes from CNW Marketing Research in Bandon, Ore., which asked nearly 1,900 Americans about their attitudes toward their own lives at several points over the course of a year.

CNW also asked each respondent the color of the car they drive most often, which allowed the researchers to develop a kind of color-confidence index.

People whose car is: Have confidence that is:
Emerald green 5.5% above average
Dark blue 3.2% above average
Silver 1.2% above average
White Average
Sunny yellow 3.7% below average
Orange 4.1% below average
Bright blue 5.5% below average
Bright yellow 8.3% below average
Red 8.8 % below average
Black 14.6% below average

Since the folks at CNW got a range of answers for each respondent over time, they were also able to calculate the "moodiness" of drivers—how widely their confidence varied from one extreme to the other, in the course of a year.

Sedate colors, not surprisingly, correlate with consistent moods. But if a primary color suddenly fills your rear-view mirror—well, it's probably best to get out of the way:

There are better clinical indicators of mental health, needless to say, but Art Spinella of CNW says car color can be a useful "people-matching" tool.

"Your accountant should drive something silver," he advises.

And odds are pretty good that he does: Silver, white, and black—more stable hues—are the most common car colors, according to DuPont, which publishes an annual color popularity report.

More moody colors account for about 17 percent of cars.

If only they had their own roads.

People whose car is: Experience:
Black, dark blue,
or silver Consistent moods
White, sunny yellow,
or bright blue Modest mood swings
Orange, red, bright
yellow, or
emerald green The most pronounced mood swings

[pwd72s]

I'd love to believe this...but really, back in'74? I'd have bought the '72S even if it had been (ugh!) Brown...simply because the condition & the equipment was right.

Color is not as important to me as it is to most people....

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Sepia Brown was some left over paint from WW2 that Porsche found out in a shed and didn't want to let go to waste.

[masraum]

I usually buy a car for the car/equipment, not the color. Actually, the color of my last two cars would not have been my primary choice, but the cars themselves were right.

But then I think color is very important to the average person.

[tabs]

Actually I like White...

However back in the day I creamed over a 70 911S with a Navy Blue Metallic... to bad I found out that car got wrecked in 82.

Sometimes when looking for an older collectable car you have to take what you can find.

[David]

I drive a black car and I'm way over confident

[red-beard]

Hmmm, I have a Black car and a Yellow one....

My wife has a dark blue one....

[m21sniper]

I have an emerald green 95 Lebaron convertible daily driver and a silver 928S for playtime.

They are the colors they are because that's the color of the cars that i got the right deal on to buy them to begin with, so all the colors speak to is the confidence of the original buyers. LOL.

[DARISC]

A local custom dude has his ride pimped with that relatively new (and very expensive) paint that changes color with the light and viewing angle.

He's a bi-polar, schizophrenic, multi-personality, sociopathic psychopath with way above average confidence and wildly careening mood swings. Otherwise, a regular Joe.

However, I will NOT ride with him and neither will I!

[svandamme]

what a load of bollocks

[Dantilla]

I currently own: Silver, red, black and blue (I'm not even counting the race car). The silver and red are both Porsches.

I've always thought I'm a pretty stable guy, but these, along with all the other cars I used to own, show that I must have multiple personalities.

Or am I just supposed to change my driving style to fit the color I'm driving?

[Buckterrier]

I'm really confident... I think

[cgarr]

Are these gloss or flat colors? I use no wax on my black car, so what?