I buy used so I voted "what's available". Just purchased my third consecutive silver Odyssey with gray leather guts. All different silvers but still..... Very stealthy though.

Car color choice for me is a two-step process, starting from the palette of choices available:

1) remove white (too hard to keep clean) and black (ditto, plus black gets stupid-hot in the sun)

2) of the remaining colors, pick one that is bright and reflective, to stay (relatively) cool in the sun and easy to see on the road.

Silver, Pewter, Gold, or Pearl White. Yes, all boring colors. But since I live in Florida where its 90+ degrees almost year round, only light colors with dark window tint for me.

I been hankering for a blue car lately and Dusty78's new to him, blue Miata is exactly what I'd look for. I doubt it would be the number one factor in a new vehicle purchase but it would be in the mix.

Jim

Voted other.....like certain colors only, and dark is better. But, I like red, as long as it’s not an ugly (to me) red, ha. Also like burgundy, darker copper, and some browns. Will not buy silver, white or yellow, light blue. Just don’t like those colors, and if I’m spending my hard earned money, might as well stick with a color I enjoy looking at.

My truck is black, and I have this love/hate relationship with it. It’s definitely a PIA to maintain, but it looks good most of the time. When I trade it, I won’t get black again. We just traded off my wife’s Jeep Wrangler, it was one of my favorite colors. They call it “red rock crystal pearl,” a metallic red. Really nice. It needed tires again and I just felt it had too many miles to spend another $850 on a new set. We got a CPO Volvo XC60 in a dark metallic grey. When you’re shopping for a low mileage CPO, you do the best you can with color, and this is pretty nice. Our fun car is BRG, and we get compliments on it all the time.

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My truck is black, and I have this love/hate relationship with it.

You and every person who owns a black vehicle. Black is simply amazing when its clean and detailed right, but unfortunately, you can count in minutes how long it will stay clean. That and every scratch, no matter how big, stands out like a neon light in it.

I lean toward a dark metallic blue if I'm given the option. Not many are making this color right now, at least on trucks. I've also found I like a dark green with or without flake on a sporty car.
Had one black truck and won't likely buy another. Current ride is the GM brown/silver color that looks like it's always dirty. It was cheap or no way would I be driving it.

Not red. Besides being very picky on 'the right red', a very rare shade dependent on variables.
Besides, the Datsun 2000 I had was a Red Cop car magnet, that got me stopped weekly for a year...yet NEVER ticketed. Did the rebuild/repaint SILVER never got stopped again with same driving habits; one of the current shades of red might consider is "Delmonico Red".

Not Black. Juice ain't worth the squeeze.

White was always easy to keep clean;
Silvers also but too many dud shades;

do. not. like. black. upholstery.

Prefer "Tank" or some close variety of mil.drab.green on my Jeeps.

Oddly enough the new Ranger "Saber" is growing on me, a sort of orangey-brown ???

Some shades of tan/gobi/sand/earth tone work for me.

No halographic crayon color palette for my rigs please.

Very few shades of blue, such as the old Ram "Atlantic Blue" similar to photo posted above.

Big Purchase coming up in the next month or so, so I'm actually down to the "What COLOR???" phase.

90% of my cars have been and is Red.
Love my Reds to Fire Engine Red.
Do not like the burnt orange reds.

Depends on the type of vehicle... But I really like white. People say it's tough to keep clean, but I don't mind my Jeep looking like I actually use it... (Also, I like the black-white contrast)

Most importantly though, white is the best color at hiding "Colorado pin-striping." I don't mind dirt, but I hate being able to see scratches.

White.

Because it matches my eye color. At least part of my eye color...

For a long time I alternated colors in my new cars: 1960 Falcon was light blue; 1966 Mustang was red; 1971 Pinto was bright blue; 1980 Capri was red. Then things changed. I traded in the Capri on a new 1986 Mustang GT in red. I bought another 1966 Mustang (rebuilt) in dark red (my "fun car"). In 2006 I bought a new Mustang GT in red (and later sold the 1986--for a short time I owned 3 red Mustangs, 20 years apart). I've been fixated on red for quite a few years now. Maybe when (if) I buy another new car it'll be blue. . . .

flashguy

I will never, ever own a black or dark blue vehicle again.

5 minutes after you wash it, it looks like shit.

In PA during a normal, snowy winter they look like shit all season long due to all the road salt unless you wash them every other day.

NOPE.

I'm really digging some of the colors that Subaru does now; the oranges, the blues, the greens

I love green, my current vehicle is a touch too dark (Ram in Black Forest Green) as its for all purposes black unless theres bright sunlight out. It comes with the hassles of a black truck. I like Toyotas green alot as its darker but always green.

I'm a fan of gray or black.

On certain cars, Battleship Gray.

Gotta be white for me. Live in mid-west Florida. Any dark color is a hot blast furnace down here...

let's see,

first was turd brown metallic, (chevy vega
followed by mostly primer gray and Ford Blue,
then,

maroon or blood red metallic (toyota celica)
white Hilux
blue metallic Saturn
green T100
green Tundra

BRG Mini Cooper
White Mini Cooper (technically pepper white)
now a Grey honda,


wife ,,

orange buick
gray Toyota
green Toyota Celica
beige metallic camry
light green honda crv
now a maroon lexus,


nothing silver, black, yellow or orange,,, yet,

when I bought my Audi a few years ago, the color was one I hadn't seen before - if I recall it was called 'Obsession' and it looked pretty cool.

mt Taco is grey and thats OK down here, when I got it, it was the only one available so the color wasn't my choice - I just wanted the vehicle