[Porsche-O-Phile]

My Mercedes is black (and yes, I believe they are one of the manufacturers who uses "real" black - it is significantly darker than other "black" run-of-the-mill cars when parked next to them). It is an absolutely awful color. You have to be obsessive about keeping the car SPOTLESS at all times or it will look filthy. Any little ding or scratch is magnified by at least 3X 4X on a black car. The upside is if you do keep them perfect and obsessively clean, they look awesome - I get compliments on my car all the time but I can say with 100% certainty that I will never, ever buy a black car ever again due to the amount of extra work required to have it not look like crap. At some point I will get the car repainted and will likely go for Mars Red (when I bought the car my #2 choice was a Mars Red model, but I liked my car better despite the fact I liked the red paint on the other model better).

Avoid black. It's an awful color - completely impractical.