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Is it as simple as people don't want to get speeding tickets? Certainly any stand out colors increase your chances of being noticed and tracked by law enforcem

• AlotOfReading 2y ago
  The dynamic that drives almost all other vehicle decisions is the concept of "least offensive". The choices made don't reflect opinionated beliefs about what a car should be, but are made from the perspective of minimizing the number of people who won't buy it because it doesn't meet some important requirement on their list. There are many people who will not buy a colorful car. There are very few people who won't buy a car if the color is too plain. Therefore people value the colorful cars less because there's a smaller customer base and the market shifts to producing vehicles in plain, minimally offensive colors.
  • ghaff 2y ago
    A lot of people go into a car dealership because they need a car right now because of an accident or an impending expensive repair. If the only option on the lot is in hot pink, that might be enough to make the buyer go to the dealership the next town over but white/silver/gray options may be "good enough" even if that's not what the buyer would pick out of the catalog all other things being equal.
• mojomark 2y ago
  If you want a great deep dive on this offbeat topic (with interview directly from the person who selects/fabricates/implements car paint colors at Subaru), I highly recommend this Freakonomics podcast episode: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/car-colors/ https://freakonomics.com/podcast/car-colors/
• drewcoo 2y ago
  That's not exactly what police profiling by color means.