What colours suit what cars?

It's too late on a Sunday evening to think about this one deeply, but of one thing I am fairly sure, green must be about the least popular colour for almost any full-size car. This is strange when green is such a predominant colour in nature or maybe this is the reason, a rebellion against natural colours? There really aren't many green cars about on the roads - I wonder if anyone involved with selling cars can confirm this?

In the 1:1 world silver, or never ending variations of it, are the big sellers these days. Causes quite a problem as it means in three to five years used car forecourts will be stuffed with silver cars all offering much of a much ness, so values drop overall.

There are real national differences too, mostly due to weather I think. We Brits go for bright colours more than most. Must be to cheer the place up a bit.

Swiss might back me up, but I visit Geneva once a year and am always struck by the monochrome nature of cars there. Black to silver and everything in-between, but few strong blue, red, or green.

For slot cars, I tend to avoid black cars because I think they are harder to see on plexy track. In a similar way, cars with clear, bright noses are easier to drive. But then I'm getting old.

Scott

"There really aren't many green cars about on the roads - I wonder if anyone involved with selling cars can confirm this?"

Actually we sell a lot of green cars. Have to admit that I work at a Jaguar, Aston Martin, Porsche dealership though. So, that will explain the bias towards green at my dealership. With the Porsches, grey seem to be a very popular color.

Personally, I like yellow, red, grey, blue. In no particular order.

I worked at a Nissan dealership for several years and green was popular in only a few models.

Silver, by far, was the best seller in the sedan classes (Sentras, Altimas and Maximas) and black or dark red seemed a favorite choice for Pathfinders and 240s.

300Zs, when they sold, went in all colors. Can't really go wrong on 300hp of twin turbo 2-seater fun. White sold best on the 222hp non turbo models.

What's in my garage? Silver Maxima and dark green Honda.

QUOTE There are real national differences too, mostly due to weather I think.
Yes, sunshine or lack of it makes a huge difference.
I noticed in California that there were far more cars of subtle, pastel colours than in UK. In the bright light, you can really SEE these subtleties, whereas in duller climes, like ours, they tend to fade into dull, insipid, almost nothingness, especially in winter.

Some (long) time ago I was selling a Mk3 Cortina (God, that ages me, I was very young then though). Guy phoned up, loved everything about the car, milage, condition etc.
Last thing he asked: What colour is it?
Me: Green.
Him: Green!
Me: Yes.
He hung up!

I think people still see green as an unlucky colour!

QUOTE I think people still see green as an unlucky colour!
This seems to be the case, but no one can tell me WHY it might be considered 'unlucky'. Any offers on this one?

Yellow is another 'odd' colour. The manufacturers re-introduce the yellow option at fairly long intervals and you see a bunch around for a while - you probably see them more prominently because it IS a more prominent colour. Then yellow goes out of fashon for about ten years and the numbers on the roads fade to almost nothing, until the next repeat of the cycle. Whereas most other colours are available all the time. That's my observation in UK - it could be different elsewhere.