Are green cars unlucky ??

[SGHOM]

I've been told this a few times over the years, " never buy a green car, they're unlucky" :thinking:
Now...... I've been driving for over 31 years, & I've had literally dozens of cars. /rally but I've only ever had 3 green cars.
an old school vauxhall back in the late '70's..... a Chevy in the late '90's... & the Saaaab... this one.

http://www.clubvr4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21799&highlight=cutting+corners

All three of them have resulted in an insurance claim,[ non my fault I hasten to add ! ] no other cars I've owned have ?? :thinking:
Is it just an 'old wives tale' or is there some resemblence of truth in it ?? :speechles :inquisiti :inquisiti

[Brunty]

My Dad had a green Princess - it was 100% bad luck, although I suspect that was due to the make/model rather than the colour.

I like the prefacelift Legnums in green, also went to see an RS6 in green - it was lovely and well beyond my price range - it was up for sale 'cos it had been very bad luck for the owners finances.

[Nick VR4]

Yeah I have heard this too

I had a green Vauxhall Magnum oil leak after oil leak, thermostat kept going very poor heating and then busted the propshaft /Grrr

Although a guy I know had one and didnt have a proplem with his

[peter thomson]

My first car was an old green Viva which ended up on top of a dyke (wall)/pan and my last car which was a green range Rover had been in an accident and had a bodged repair by the previous owner. I had even HPI'd it but a waste of time if the accident is not declared.The inner wing had about 2 tack welds on it to keep it attached. It was scrapped to buy my VR4

[WildCards]

bla bla bla bla ended up on top of a dyke bla bla bla bla....

Unlucky, unless you managed to cure her?

[peter thomson]

Unlucky, unless you managed to cure her?

No that was the end of that one but used the parts on the next one

[TAR]

OH NO.... :speechles I've got a green Legnum.

So I did some research and found this.. Sorry long post coming up...

Car colours rule driver behaviour
COLOURFUL language and aggressive driving are affected by the colour of the car a person drives.
This is the finding of a survey of drivers by Churchill Car Insurance, which warns us to give drivers of white cars a particularly wide berth.

The Speed Colour Survey shows a direct correlation between a driver's car colour choice and the average speed they drive, with drivers of white cars doing the highest speed on average.

More than 40 per cent of drivers of white cars said they are prone to aggressive driving, gesturing and shouting. On average, they drive 12.7mph over the speed limit on motorways with 14 per cent admitting that they drive as much as 20 miles per hour over the limit.

According to Churchill, this pattern is more to do with the personality and behaviour of the driver rather than the colour of the car itself. Churchill recruited psychologist Donna Dawson to explain the significance of colour choices and the behavioural patterns of the drivers who choose certain colours.
She said: "Drivers of white cars tend to be status-seeking individuals.

"At one end of the social spectrum you have the white car owner who is proclaiming his or her wealth by stating that they can afford a colour that needs cleaning frequently, while at the other end there is the 'white van man' who can be brash, open and overly confident."

Colour Speed Survey

White cars such as Britney's white Mercedes represent status-seeking extrovert drivers

Drivers of silver cars, such as Freddie Flintoff in his silver VW Touareg are quietly confident and cool, calm and slightly aloof

Grey cars are often chosen by those who are calm, sober and dedicated to their work, such as Jerry Seinfeld who drives a Porsche Spyder

Green cars such as Ashton Kutcher's 4x4 are driven by individuals who are vigorous and balanced individuals

Blue cars, such as David Beckham's Porsche represent introspective, reflective and cautious drivers who are deliberate in their actions.

Red cars, like Jay Kay's Ferrari are driven by those who are passionate and full of zest, energy and drive.

Black has often been the choice of colour of the rebel or the outsider such as the Batmobile.

Drivers of yellow cars such as Rod Stewart's Dodge Viper, which was famously stolen, tend to be intelligent, imaginative and novelty-loving

Frances Browning, spokesperson for Churchill Car Insurance says: "We spend a lot of time looking at behavioural driving patterns. Clearly the colour of car that people choose to drive says something about their personality and how they would like to be perceived and it is for those emotion-related reasons that they are likely to speed rather then the physical colour itself."

Donna Dawson added, "Colour is important because it affects both our bodies and our minds. Colour is all around us, informing everything we see, touch, wear, use, eat and drink and this emotional influence transfers itself to the way we drive our cars."

[SGHOM]

No that was the end of that one but used the parts on the next one

think about it Pete ?? :thinking: :scholar: /pan /pan

[Rikki]

My first Galant was green. My dad had it before me, and between the 2 of us, it had been in about 5/6 accidents, 2 big one's. Our other cars have not even been dented! :inquisiti

so maybe its true..........

[peter thomson]

think about it Pete ?? :thinking: :scholar: /pan /pan

/pan /pan

[Bazlightyear]

When I worked at Ford's Halewood I bought a brand new lime GREEN Mk1 Ford Escort Sport (chassic number BBATNU23804). The reg number was PEM175L.

I followed the car through the plant getting subtle little extra's put on it like a black headlining, well two actually coz the first one ripped. I had a laminated windscreen slipped in, well actually they had to fit three because the guy fitting the headlining put to many securing clips on the headlining and the pressure kept cracking the screens. When the second screen cracked the guy just booted the screen out onto the bonnet and dragged it off scratching the paint.

The first day one the road I took the car to a mate's house only to be told by his mother that "Oh, green is an unlucky colour". "Oh, the reg number add's up to THIRTEEN". The second day on the road I was helping a DIFFERENT mate with his car and he managed to put an exhaust through the headlining. There's another one.

Two weeks later on Grand National Day, I live in Liverpool, some arse comes out of a side road without stopping, I managed to miss him but spin it backwards up the pavement.

Five weeks from brand new and my brother-in-law and I find ourselves in the middle of a club rally somewhere between Llandudno and Pwllheli. I was only doing 20MPH when on a left hand corner slid into a grass bank. The result, up the bank one flattened driver's wing, down the bank onto two wheels rolled on it's passenger's side and no door mirror, no door handle and a crushed gutter.

Within the first year I managed to go up another pavement and round the back of a lampost after hiting a pub front door because YET ANOTHER MATE grabbed the steering wheel.

To sum it all up I dont know if I'm a sh*t driver or green car's are unlucky.

BUT NEXT TIME SOMEONE EITHER PULLS OUT INFRONT OF YOU OR DOES SOMETHING STUPID JUST ADD UP THE REG NUMBER.

Bazza

ps. If anyone brings up my Castle Coombe incident of going off backwards into the tyre wall I'll hunt you down.

[Lillywotsername]

Our STR was green.... had it 6 weeks before our big accident.:inquisiti

Worst accident I have ever been involved with.

[ralliart-type-s]

I had a racing green montego td countryman which got nicked and vandalized, i got the car back( how unlucky) and it got broken into after i had replaced all the glass. I scrapped it to buy a 2.0 mg maestro in the same colour and i got pulled doing 36 in a 30, only to discover the car was nicked and i wasnt insured!!! i also had a 2.8 pajero in silver with the green flash down the side and the fuel pump went ont the 2nd day i had it, it was pink inside(the pump i mean!!) Wonder why??

[Maggie]

I have read somewhere that Green cars have more accidents because they blend into the surroundings so you dont see them as easily as other colours/rally :thinking:

[I-S]

My galant is green. No problems here, 4 years this june.

[ralliart-type-s]

Wish the maestro had been camouflaged, then the coppers wdnt have seen me. anyone developed a klingon style cloaking device for jap cars yet??

[Lucas]

All three of them have resulted in an insurance claim,[ non my fault I hasten to add ! ] no other cars I've owned have ?? :thinking:


DONT SAY THAT!!! My cars a green prefacelift! /pan

Oh and TAR, my next cars going to be white!!! /rally

[RugbyPete]

I work for Aston Martin, and all they sell in the uk is green and black ones, so theres some unlucky drivers out there if it was the case!

My 620Ti was green, and to me it was lucky, because although it broke down due to the gear linkage breaking, I got it fixed in the nick of time, because a) the seller was only going to buy the next day, and b) my deposit was due and it was my last day of tenancy at my old house, meaning I woulda been homeless had I not by fluke found a garage to overnight fix it!

Lots of cool memories with it too, driving around the lake district and upto scotland, the main motivation for buying my galant, for me its a modern alternative in non-turbo flavour

Green cars are at home the uk, with as much leather and wood as you can fit inside :)

[Kieran]

Green cars are at home the uk, with as much leather and wood as you can fit inside :)

:2thumbsup :2thumbsup :sunny: /notworthy :smitten: :smug:

[psbarham]

:2thumbsup :2thumbsup :sunny: /notworthy :smitten: :smug:
notice he said leather and WOOD , not brown mottled plastic like the japs insist on using , now if they came with the soft leather and birds eye maple that jags use then it would be different , but its not , so there /Nuuu

[Kieran]

notice he said leather and WOOD , not brown mottled plastic like the japs insist on using , now if they came with the soft leather and birds eye maple that jags use then it would be different , but its not , so there /Nuuu

Bah! It's close enough! /grr

Though I admit the idea of a connoly leathered, wilton carpeted galant with maple trim does make me go all giddy!:thinking: :iloveyou:

[White Lightning]

More than 40 per cent of drivers of white cars said they are prone to aggressive driving, gesturing and shouting. On average, they drive 12.7mph over the speed limit on motorways with 14 per cent admitting that they drive as much as 20 miles per hour over the limit.

/Devil5

'tis not true ... I never drive over the speed limit ...

[barnard]

Derek, when you had a Chevy in the '90s they were still called DAEWOO MATIZ's. Do i worry about the green top half but not the silver bottom half, no, just don't be supersticious.

[SGHOM]

Derek, when you had a Chevy in the '90s they were still called DAEWOO MATIZ's. .

SHH !!! :speechles /pan /pan /pan

[Xeroid]

Green cars do seem to have a higher accident incidence, quite often in low light, evening typically situations because the colour just blends into everything.
Lime Green don't count ...
Yellow is the most visible colour, had a yellow Toyota many moons ago and you could see it coming miles away.
I go with the visibility theory.

[RugbyPete]

yep, although in this weather I can barely see silver cars when the winter sun goes low