Is red a girly colour for a car

[A.Goldberg]

My car has been pretty entertaining lately and it's so old it doesn't even have a CD player in it, much less aux in to the radio... it's cassette tapes or FM transmitter dongle on an iPod... but the the infotainment of which I speak is related to the starter. Car's in the shop. After this thread I'm thinking I should maybe take it to the body shop on the way home and get it painted red.

I bet your infotainment package has AM radio, a feature starting to disappear from new cars- particularly Tesla models and the BMW i3. Supposedly the electric motors cause too much interference with AM reception. So hey, consider AM radio a luxury!

 

[cube]

Old car with no CD player: OK
New car with no CD player: unacceptable

 

[Gutwrench]

Next time a red car for me, and let the damn deer wonder if they could take it, maybe dance a little longer on the edge of the road instead of just going for it.

We had deer whistles installed on the cars in California. I was driving about 15 mph through a winding wooded residential street around 4:00 am when a deer running between some houses ran directly into my right front fender. It slide onto and across the front hood and off the driver’s side. Then it darted off down the street and disappeared over a redwood fence. I had a dent in the r/f fender and deer poop all over my engine hood and windshield.

My car has been pretty entertaining lately and it's so old it doesn't even have a CD player in it, much less aux in to the radio... it's cassette tapes or FM transmitter dongle on an iPod...

You can always set your reel-to-reel on the seat beside you.

 

[Huntn]

Yes, it's incredibly girly, and you wouldn't want anybody to think you're girly because girls are gross.

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Lol, don’t they have cooties? I remember that from some time ago.

 

[LizKat]

I remember that from some time ago.

man that's from the wayback machine..

 

[Huntn]

you have soul red crystal metallic?!?

now that's an impressive red

Yes...I...do. This car has subverted my love of my classic Fiat Spider. I admit, the quality of the red in the photo I uploaded with more intense dark highlights (reply you quoted) lookes even more sexy than the actual car, if that is possible. Could that be the meaning of a girly color, something seductive to men? Mazda did an incredible thing with the 2016 redesign, giving the car subtle flairs that impressively changed it’s visual qualities.

Actual car.


Mazda photo


Original Miata​

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I bet your infotainment package has AM radio, a feature starting to disappear from new cars- particularly Tesla models and the BMW i3. Supposedly the electric motors cause too much interference with AM reception. So hey, consider AM radio a luxury!

I wonder if the AM band is a thriving concern? The only time we specifically choose it, is when on the road, trying to catch a ball game. I do have one vehicle with Sirius in it where we don’t have that problem, but don’t go on road trips that often.
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We had deer whistles installed on the cars in California. I was driving about 15 mph through a winding wooded residential street around 4:00 am when a deer running between some houses ran directly into my right front fender. It slide onto and across the front hood and off the driver’s side. Then it darted off down the street and disappeared over a redwood fence. I had a dent in the r/f fender and deer poop all over my engine hood and windshield.



You can always set your reel-to-reel on the seat beside you.

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Darwinism at work. The car savy deer will survive. One of my coworkers showed me a picture of a severed deer leg in her back seat. This is after the deer collided with her car and that part came through the front windshield. My close call, was when driving down a dark, windy, and narrow road, in Ireland, when out of the side illumination of the headlights lights the magnificent head of an adult red male deer appeared, which seemed to be only feet away from our vehicle. I counted my blessings.

 

[MattA]

I've been driving a tornado red 2001 VW Golf TDI for 17 years. Red wasn't my first choice, but I actually have grown to like it a lot. I think the color has saved me from tons of crashes over the years. Do I think red is girly? No, not at all.

 

[hawkeye_a]

I've connected with three of them in my current car ....

30 points!!

 

[Lioness~]

Of course Red is a girly color
I had a Red Porsche once, it was super great.

Doesn't mean it isn't a manly color too.
But it's definitely a beautiful color on a car, a hot girly color.

 

[LizKat]

30 points!!

Hah yeah. 40 and you get to go car shopping...

I was surprised they didn't total it on 3 hits, but the car was in good shape and still really nice inside so it was off to the body shop one more time. One of them was an 8-point buck. He did do an impressive number on the rf quarter panel and I'm glad he hit that and not the window or I'd not be here.

Always wanted a red car, but always buy used vehicles, so it's the luck of the draw on color once I find a good one of what I was looking for. This next one i should be scouting up now will be my last pick unless the deer really still hate me and take the thing out fast. Maybe I'lll find a red one at last even though I don't focus on the color. But I have this theory that people drive their red cars into the ground instead of trading them in. I sure would!

 

[cube]

Color affects resale value.

 

[Pakaku]

Seems kind of insecure to care how 'girly' or 'manly' a car colour is. The only factor you should care about is whether you like the colour or not.

 

[A.Goldberg]

I wonder if the AM band is a thriving concern? The only time we specifically choose it, is when on the road, trying to catch a ball game. I do have one vehicle with Sirius in it where we don’t have that problem, but don’t go on road trips that often

I would imagine it’s becoming less and less significant for most people. I still use AM for the news, especially when I’m in Connecticut.

I have satellite radio only because I’m on my parents account. Otherwise I probably wouldn’t pay for it. I was just thinking the other day about how it will probably be obsolete in 5-10 years or so with streaming media taking over and more and more cars having built in cellular connectivity. Satellite radio quality isn’t great, reception cuts out frequently driving in wooded areas, and it’s expensive for what you get (a fairly limited playlist per station) compared to Spotify, Apple Music, etc. SiriusXM also provides traffic and (rather non-specific) weather but all of that can be handled much better by 4g data. The only exception would be areas with no cell service which most people don’t have a problem with these days.

 

[millerj123]

Ok, it can’t be just the color. To have a manly car, you need a spoiler, spinning hubcaps, ground effects, naked lady silhouette mud flaps, chrome testicles hanging from your class I hitch, A window sticker of Spaceman Spiff urinating on a rival auto manufacturer and the ability to “roll coal”.

I put all those on my red Prius and the ladies literally flock to me.

I totally win!

 

[Gutwrench]

Ok, it can’t be just the color. To have a manly car, you need a spoiler, spinning hubcaps, ground effects, naked lady silhouette mud flaps, chrome testicles hanging from your class I hitch, A window sticker of Spaceman Spiff urinating on a rival auto manufacturer and the ability to “roll coal”.

I put all those on my red Prius and the ladies literally flock to me.

I totally win!

Don’t forget those dangly things on the axle resembling bull testicles. Nothing but winning right there!! Oh dang...you’ve got those covered! Well done, mate!

I had a purple van once. Girls would shoot their underwear off their finger like rubber bands at me as I drove by. Ricochets in old western movies always takes me back to memory lane.

 

[Lioness~]

I had a purple van once. Girls would shoot their underwear off their finger like rubber bands at me as I drove by.

Cars have effects on the opposite sex
2 young cops came after me when I drove home with the Porsche I had once.
I had NO slow speed, and when I saw them, I felt, ****, my license will blow.
Probably 35-50 km/h too much on that road.
When I was home and should park, they drove up to me and stepped out.
And I asked, how much too fast did I drive?

Nah, we didn’t see anything, we just wanted to check your car, he said and blinked.
So they did, and congratulated me to a great car.

 

[ActionableMango]

Old car with no CD player: OK
New car with no CD player: unacceptable

I was in Canada driving through flyover country (unfortunately), and stepped into a gas station. I had to because the pump was one of those with a mechanical dial readout where you have to memorize the price so you could walk in and tell the attendant how much you owe them.

Inside the gas station were rows and rows of CDs for sale. They even had those white plastic bracket things as long as your arm so you couldn't stuff them in your pants or whatever. So I'm thinking... who the hell still uses CDs?

Well now I know, Mr. Cubeman. Now I know.

 

[cube]

I was in Canada driving through flyover country (unfortunately), and stepped into a gas station. I had to because the pump was one of those with a mechanical dial readout where you have to memorize the price so you could walk in and tell the attendant how much you owe them.

Inside the gas station were rows and rows of CDs for sale. They even had those white plastic bracket things as long as your arm so you couldn't stuff them in your pants or whatever. So I'm thinking... who the hell still uses CDs?

Well now I know, Mr. Cubeman. Now I know.

That's why you want a CD player in your car.

It would be for daily use if they still made car SACD players.

 

[Tech198]

Red like a Ferrari? Sounds manly.

Good way to surprise a sneak attack on unsuspecting visitors...

"Hey look, its a Ferrari.."
"No it ain't. False alarm"

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I was in Canada driving through flyover country (unfortunately), and stepped into a gas station. I had to because the pump was one of those with a mechanical dial readout where you have to memorize the price so you could walk in and tell the attendant how much you owe them.

Inside the gas station were rows and rows of CDs for sale. They even had those white plastic bracket things as long as your arm so you couldn't stuff them in your pants or whatever. So I'm thinking... who the hell still uses CDs?

Well now I know, Mr. Cubeman. Now I know.

Well, I still use - and buy, and order - and listen to CDs.

 

[Christoffee]

Good way to surprise a sneak attack on unsuspecting visitors...

"Hey look, its a Ferrari.."
"No it ain't. False alarm"

“Where’s my chocolate bar gone??”

 

[LizKat]

Color affects resale value.

LOL not by the time it's old enough for me to be lookin' at it.

My idea of a good price for a car is still something like $5k so if its doors are all the same color I'm lucky. Maybe this time out, one of the doors will even be red.

I still like stick shifts so that makes finding my next "potential deer victim" harder too. Right now I have my eye on a 2013 5-speed Honda Fit with only 50k miles on it that also does actually have all its doors the same color... but of course it's just a tad more than a $5k machine lol. But hey, I'm just beginning my search for a new-to-me winter rat so there's still hope.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Hm.

Why not try Estrogen Red, my personal favourite of the many shades on offer.

 

[LizKat]

Hm.

Why not try Estrogen Red, my personal favourite of the many shades on offer.

LOL, maybe for nailpolish? Alas, for at least resale value on cars it seems it's still a black or white world, with red falling middle of the pack, and looks like my ol' orange VW would not do well either. What a weird chart, why is orange forced into last place when the green and the yellow/gold jobs don't resell as poorly, I wonder....

http://blog.unhaggle.com/4-reasons-car-colour-matter-buying-new-car/

Another thing about red, which is noted in the cited piece:

Accidents happen and so do bird droppings. You might think those flying defecators are tracking you around town and targeting your sleek new red car, but the fact is, it might actually be your car’s fault. The colour red causes birds to instinctually panic or gain alertness; kind of the same way matadors use a red cape to rile the bull. Unfortunately this colour shock causes the birds to loosen their bowels. Red is the colour of vehicles most commonly pooped on, attracting 18%, followed by blue with 14% and black with 11%.​

 

[Gutwrench]

"Hey look, its a Ferrari.."
"No it ain't. False alarm"

“Hey look at the tow truck pulling a Ford Taurus!!”
“Calm down. No, it ain’t. It’s a Jaguar.”
“Oh yeah you’re right. I should of known.”