Black is the silliest car color - prove me wrong

[4WD]

It isn’t my favorite and if I were to get black, I’d want it to be metallic not flat.

What does “So Scare” mean?

Think it’s some kind of social club - skateboarding etc …

 

[4WD]

Does the police chief have reserved parking in between other cars like that? Should be an end spot imho

don’t know - just stopped for some Cajun food

 

[97prizm]

So. I get that when super clean and under certain angle black can look superb. But. Under most conditions, a black car looks like a black hole, void, or a blob

Black hides all of the lines/complex stamping and turns a cars silhouette into a said black blob, hole, void.

Just the other day I saw a new(er) Audi RS6 Avant - $122k starting price - on the freeway. I could tell it was something serious from afar, but because the car was black and tinted I could only make out what it is, and kind of, sort of see it’s nice curves, complex stampings only when I got up close. Even then barely. It was just a big black blob…

Then, half an hour later I saw the same car but in lighter color, and what a difference it makes. Like a beautiful woman in a form fitting cocktail dress, or sportswear instead of wearing russian grandma style THICK fleece jacket that hides everything.

I have observed the same effect with other cars too. Black just sucks on good looking cars, as it makes them …. Well, you already know what I think.

So, although owners of black cars might think they look sharp driving a black car, with tinted windows and black wheels (worst case scenario) in reality they are invisible to others the way a black hole is.

Why buy a good looking car and then negate its looks by choosing it in black?

P.S. “your money your choice” blah-blah-blah. I’m not saying you are not allowed to own a black car, I merely question adequacy of such a decision on a good looking cars

You want crazy? Look up Vanta black. A shop on YouTube painted a car this color. Vanta black supposedly absorbs 99.9% of light. I did see a flat black Lamborghini Urus this morning it looks odd with that color.

 

[svtrit]

I agree, but, when the red one is $2000 more than the identical black one, I bought black.

2nd black car ever. I had to get over having a perfectly clean car. The worst is leaving a car wash to later find water spots from water that blew out of the mirror. I only use touch less washes and spray in wax.

The dark green one I had before it wasn’t much different, but didn’t like as bad with a touch of dirt.

Silver is my preferred color for sure. My wife’s van looks decent even after gravel road trips.

 

[yowps3]

Black is good for touch up paint as it hides the blobs.

Looks good on premium cars. However does not sit well on econoboxes.

 

[AlphaOmega]

In Houston

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I would put this in the column titled "supports my point"

 

[JavierH19]

With every hairline scratch my black escalade accrues the more wish i would've gotten another silver suv instead of being different. Had a black ford, don't know why i made myself forget the trouble it was.

 

[UG_Passat]

VW's Haberno Orange that was once available on the Tiguan is pretty silly

 

[AlphaOmega]

VW's Haberno Orange that was once available on the Tiguan is pretty silly

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definitely not boring! would look right at home somewhere of this sort and kind:

 

[dumkid]

I like colorful cars. They look better than black and silver cars

 

[DuckRyder]

VW's Haberno Orange that was once available on the Tiguan is pretty silly

I really like that color, if we could have found an R line that color we might own it....