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What Does Your Car Color Say About You? <— Das Link. LOL

Hopefully the above link still works. LOL. A recent study in the UK found that the color of a car says a lot about it’s driver. They concluded….

• Black cars denote an aggressive personality or someone who’s an outsider or rebel.
• Silver cars indicate someone who’s cool, calm and slightly aloof.
• Green cars can often be chosen by people with hysterical tendencies.
• Yellow cars signify someone who is idealistic and novelty loving.
• Blue cars are chosen by the more introspective, reflective and cautious driver.
• Gray cars represent those who are calm, sober and dedicated to their work.
• Red cars denote those who are full of zest, energy and drive and who think, move and talk quickly.
• Pink cars are chosen by gentle, loving and affectionate drivers.
• White cars represent status-seeking extrovert drivers.
• Cream cars are the least likely to be involved in accidents and denote self-contained and controlled owners.

Upon hearing that this study came from the UK, I found it interesting considering one of the best known car colors to come out of jolly ol’ England is “British Racing Green.”

So by all intents and purposes, the English are hysterical??? Hysterically funny yes (ie, Benny Hill, Are You Being Served, Keeping Up Appearances…) but not exactly hysterical as in frantic or panic stricken. At least, I’ve never got that impression.

Anyway, although I found the study interesting I had to take a little issue with it. Like… wouldn’t this survery have to take into account the people who are driving a car that is the color they WANT as opposed to people, like me, who are driving a car that is whatever color it was when it was bought and the color of the car was not a determining factor in the purchase of said car??

Case in point. My car is black but I’m about as aggressive as Ghandi. However, if I had my choice, my car would be painted blue. And thus, the introspective, reflective and cautious driver would be a correct description. Tho’ it’s odd to have a reflective, cautious, introspective driver driving a Firebird. But then again it’s only a V6….

I actually have two cars and the other one is green. Me? Hysterical? WHO YOU CALLING HYSTERICAL?!?!?  Heh heh…

More interesting is thinking of some chracters I’ve introduced in this new story my partner-in-fictional crime and I have been working on these past few months, and the cars they drive. First is Lieutenant Jack Morrison, driving the standard issue gray Chevy Caprice unmarked sedan. Now, I suppose he could have been randomly assigned a car, but maybe he had a choice. And if he did, the color fits. Jack, for the most part, is calm, sober and dedicated to his work.

Meanwhile, a colorful underworld character by the name of Jiji drives a cream colored Cadillac. “Cream cars are the least likely to be involved in accidents and denote self-contained and controlled owners.”  Okay, I had to look up “self-contained” or rather synonyms of and….Jiji is definetly an independent, self-sufficient individual. He’s a gambler, in the “Maverick” tradition. If Brett and Bart Maverick aren’t good examples of independent, self-sufficient individuals, I don’t know what is. LOL

Then of course, we have MaryAnne, who has traded her blue Firebird for her black Olds Tornado in this adventure. (Even the model name is aggresive. Tornado! Look out, MaryAnne’s blowin’ through! GAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!! LOL). Ironically, MaryAnne’s involvement in this story does put her in the “outsider” category. She’s neither cop, nor criminal….yet crosses over the blue and black lines with ease. (Scary actually.) LOL.

So perhaps car color really does say something about our personalities, at least for those of us who have a car that’s in the color of our choice. LOL. Obviously within the deep recesses of my mind when I’m thinking of cars for characters I end up picking colors that match character personality….even when I don’t have the characters fully developed yet, and don’t know what the colors represent. Now THAT’S scary.