What…is your favorite color?

CTS Vsport front quarter

On Facebook you can find a fan group for just about any car color. I initially joined the Brown Car Appreciation Society thinking it was meant in jest. But this group’s love for brown is quite genuine. Truth be told, my personal allegiance is most with the Blue Car Appreciation Society.

Yet I haven’t owned a blue car in over a decade. Instead I’ve driven a series of red cars, beginning with a Mazda Protege I bought new. The dark blue on that car was a bit dull, the bright blue too bright. Neither really suited the car’s lines. One or both wasn’t available with leather. I ended up with a classic bright red exterior / black leather interior combo. A Lexus GS 400 and a Mazda RX-8 Shinka were initially purchased by my father. In the case of the latter, I suggested that the RX-8 looked best in either the copper red metallic offered only on the Shinka or the aurora blue mica offered on the later R3. My father didn’t care for the seats in the R3, and bought a red Shinka. Our family hauler is technically a light green, but looks gray more than anything else. I’d have preferred another color, but it was the cheapest Ford Taurus X Limited in the country at the time, and only an hour away.

But I digress. What about you? Do you have a favorite car color? If so, how committed to it are you? Is you current car this color? Have all your cars been this color?