What Colour Team Are You A Member Of?

[Turbo6man]

  Trumpy said:

Slow day at work Cro? 

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Work??? Since when did he get a job?

[Cro]

I don't work...I sit on my fat arse all day, take one or two phone calls, move a mouse, punch the keyboard and get paid big bucks for it

[Maxx Power]

It's unfair to group Lightning Strike with HgAg undercoat!

Ah well..

[Turbofalke]

HgAg YEH!!!!!!!!

[gassit]

I voted with my new team RAPID but it did not register.

It's an insult to group Lightning Strike with team hGAG

Steve

[Turbofalke]

Swedish study shows black is a risky colour

A study of 31,000 crashes in Sweden1 found that black cars were involved in 22.5% of the crashes even though black cars made up only 4.4% of the vehicle population.

This means that black cars were 5 times more likely to crash.

According to the same study, the safest car colour was pink.

Research has also shown that

Red cars are more likely to be found exceeding the speed limit

Australians prefer white cars

Silver cars hide the most dirt and red cars show the most dirt

Silver is a popular colour in Germany

Cars painted in metallic paint often cost more because metallic paint is harder to match when a car is being repaired.

Black cars are not popular in hot climates

White is considered a sensible car colour and is often used for fleet cars

Porche made blue cars because they stood out in the European winters

The latest fashion is “Harlequin” paint that changes shade depending on the light and the angle of viewing. It costs $1200 per litre.

Extract: Safe Vehicle colours

[Turbofalke]

Bring it on!! heres another

PPG Reveals Most Popular Car Colours

"Silver can highlight the hard edges and soft lines of a vehicle's design and can take on several different effects -- from very bright and reflective to subtle and sophisticated -- based on the size and type of metallic flakes contained in the coating," said Jerry R. Koenigsmark, manager of color design, North America for the automotive coatings business unit of PPG. "Globally, for the 2002 model year, we saw very bright silver shades, which are often more appropriate for hard-edge, modern or high-tech vehicle designs."

Based on data compiled by PPG, the most popular vehicle colors for the 2002 model year for the three leading automotive markets were:

North America Europe Japan

1. Silver/gray (22%) Silver/gray (40%) Silver/gray (35%)

2. White (16%) Blue (19%) White (35%)

3. Red (14%) Black (13%) Black (9%)

4. Blue (13%) Green (9%) Blue (8%)

5. Naturals* (13%) Red (9%) Red (5%)

6. Black (10%) White (6%) Others (5%)

7. Green (8%) Naturals* (3%) Green (2%)

8. Others (4%) Others (1%) Naturals* (1%)

Clearly from this we can confirm that HgAg customers are holding up the automotive paint market.

[Turbofalke]

  gassit said:

I voted with my new team RAPID but it did not register.

It's an insult to group Lightning Strike with team hGAG

Steve

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Log off then

[Cro]

  Turbofalke said:

Bring it on!! heres another

PPG Reveals Most Popular Car Colours

"Silver can highlight the hard edges and soft lines of a vehicle's design and can take on several different effects -- from very bright and reflective to subtle and sophisticated -- based on the size and type of metallic flakes contained in the coating," said Jerry R. Koenigsmark, manager of color design, North America for the automotive coatings business unit of PPG. "Globally, for the 2002 model year, we saw very bright silver shades, which are often more appropriate for hard-edge, modern or high-tech vehicle designs."

Based on data compiled by PPG, the most popular vehicle colors for the 2002 model year for the three leading automotive markets were:

North America Europe Japan

1. Silver/gray (22%) Silver/gray (40%) Silver/gray (35%)

2. White (16%) Blue (19%) White (35%)

3. Red (14%) Black (13%) Black (9%)

4. Blue (13%) Green (9%) Blue (8%)

5. Naturals* (13%) Red (9%) Red (5%)

6. Black (10%) White (6%) Others (5%)

7. Green (8%) Naturals* (3%) Green (2%)

8. Others (4%) Others (1%) Naturals* (1%)

Clearly from this we can confirm that HgAg customers are holding up the automotive paint market.

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Ok then, go to your beloved America, Europe, Japan, and go back in time to 2002.

Whilst you're gone we'll be discussing Australian Fords in 2005

[Turbofalke]

Car Colour Predictions

"The experts in question are Renate Weber (covering Europe), Jon Hall (North America) and Eiji Fujimori (Asia-Pacific). For most CARkeys readers, Weber's comments are the most immediately relevant. She foresees the increasing popularity of a number of new colours based on simple silver but expanding into other colour regions, including a bright silver white but also a wide range of greys.

But why silver at all? According to Weber, it's a reflection of people's social behaviour. "We strive for perfection," she says, "and once we have achieved it we long for naturalness."