Picking the right car color can save you money - Indianapolis Star

Whether it's a little red Corvette or a pink Cadillac, picking just the right color can be as important to car buyers as price and options. But letting emotions play a big role when it comes to car color can be costly down the line. Those black, white and silver vehicles may sound boring, but they may stand a better chance of returning a little more at resale time than an oddball or fad color, like today's brown, orange or, yes, pink cars, especially if the wild color gets... Lighter-colored cars are less likely to show dirt and scratches. Car colors don't appear to affect insurance rates, but the question is open about whether a flaming-red sports car is more likely to catch the eye of a traffic cop. White remains the world's most popular car color, says PPG Industries. Silver denoted luxury cars some 57% of the time in 2013, when PPG most recently surveyed car colors. Ibara, who drives a sea-foam green Chevrolet Volt, says automakers mostly offer colors considered "safe bets" these days — the limiting the wild choices. After a Chevrolet Spark arrived in Techno Pink, Cars. com took a look at car color resale value in 2012. The finding: Resale values of the. Source: www.indystar.com