SILVERY BLUE CAR DRIVERS
The statistics also shows that the likelihood of choosing red as a colour for reckless drivers increases with age while one-quarter (25 per cent) of those aged 55 and over felt that red was linked with careless driving, just 15 per cent of those aged between 18 and 34 agreed. The most common colour chosen was red, which received votes from 21 per cent of all respondents. A recent survey in the UK by car dealership network Trusted Dealers found that 45 per cent of people selected at least one specific colour which they associated with reckless driving. There is an interesting psychological dimension too and it has to do with how we perceive other drivers and how we feel they perceive us. Have you tried picking out a silver car in heavy fog? Or a black or dark grey car at night? Apparently the only truly safe colour is bright orange, which Saab tried to popularise as a car colour in the seventies for precisely that reason of safety, but it never really took off. Which seems to make sense until you remember that other colours could, by the same measure, be just as dangerous. It's often suggested that green cars blend in too easily with our mossy, grassy background, making them harder to see and therefore more likely to be involved in an accident. Now green gets something of a bad rep in Ireland and is still, deep into the 21st Century, still regarded by many as something of an unlucky colour. Funkier colours like purple and yellow barely warrant a mention, garnering only a fraction of a percentage point each, as does green. Blue and red have around 10 per cent each and white, which has made something of a fashionable comeback in recent years, has around eight per cent. Black is not far behind and if you combine black and dark grey into one colour (hardly a stretch) then you're looking at close to 40 per cent of all our new cars. So far this year, almost a quarter of all the cars we have bought were silver. Why don't we buy more colourful cars? Silver makes up the vast bulk of Irish car colours. Why silver and black?Īnd it got me thinking.
SILVERY BLUE CAR FULL
Only the Alfa, in its blood red, was different and it sat in the car park like a lighthouse beam in a shop full of candles. Every other car in the place, and it was busy, was black, blue or silver-grey. Parking the Giulietta up, I nipped inside for a coffee and a sandwich and upon my return to the car park, the contrast could not have been more spectacular. What hammered that point home was a stop made at a motorway services. A deep, rich Italian racing red – Rosso Corsa – and it not only looked achingly pretty, it really made the car stand out. It was a brisk, fun to drive car but what I remember most about it is the colour.
I was lucky enough to be stooging around in an Alfa Romeo, a Giulietta Cloverleaf hot hatch.
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