The exterior colour of a car presses many a person\u2019s button but I wonder if the colour of a car has any other flow on effects?<\/p>\n
Something a little funnier, though.\u00a0 Britain\u2019s Daily Mail has recorded some results that some scientists have found out about car colour.\u00a0 Crimson coloured cars are much more likely to be splattered by bird poo!\u00a0 In a study, the scientists found that 18 percent of red cars were found to be poohed on, compared to just the 1 percent of green cars.\u00a0 Green cars were the least soiled of the car colours.\u00a0 I wonder if the red colour of a car spells danger for birds, which results in the bird having a bowel movement.<\/p>\n
Silver is a very common colour for a car, and it\u2019s amazing to see the number of times it takes out top spot for colour.\u00a0 One of the reasons for this is that silver does show off the car\u2019s exterior lines very well.\u00a0 Choosing a grey car also helps to hide the dirt.\u00a0 So if you happen to live in an area with a high bird population, either buy a green car for a low hit rate or grey to hide the droppings.\u00a0 White and red are the worst for displaying bird droppings, though!<\/p>\n
To the issue of safety: white cars are safest, so too are yellow cars.\u00a0 Green, black, blue and grey cars are not so easily seen, particularly in some lighting scenarios.\u00a0 The colour of your car does play a role on how easily seen you will be on the road.<\/p>\n
Now, what about other sorts of grub and the car colours that suit them \u2013 or don\u2019t suit them \u2013 best.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take the type of car that\u2019s most likely to get grubby: a 4×4 that actually goes bush rather than just transporting the family around town.\u00a0 Ideally, the best colours for these would be sort of brownish greens \u2013 khaki would be good.\u00a0 And you do see some green ones around.\u00a0 However, they tend to be darker green, which shows off all the light coloured dirt and mud.\u00a0 This may actually be the idea.\u00a0 Worst colours would have to be white and black.\u00a0 As many people have said, there are two sorts of dirt: the light sort attracted to dark objects and the dark sort attracted to light objects.\u00a0 So black and white 4×4 (meaning black ones and white ones; zebra striped Safari styles are good dirt-hiders) are mud magnets.<\/p>\n
Trade vans also end up looking shabby.\u00a0 The ever-popular white van might be great for displaying logos and advertising but if the job involves anything dirty, there\u2019s a chance you\u2019re going to get it on the paintwork.\u00a0 So maybe white may not be quite so good after all.\u00a0 This is a good topic to mention a mate of mine who was an interior plasterer. \u00a0He couldn\u2019t find a cheap white van \u2013 not even a good old bog-standard Mazda <\/a>van \u2013 but saw a dark pink one (Metallic Rose would have been the description if it had been a lipstick) that nobody wanted because pink isn\u2019t the colour for a Real Man. He bought the pink one and is now very recognisable as The Guy With The Pink Van And The Bulldog.\u00a0 It\u2019s good advertising, I guess.\u00a0 But white would have suited a plasterer.<\/p>\n