In my Family as long for as I can remember, I have always been told that green cars are unlucky.
Thinking it was unique to my family I asked a few other peps if they had heard of so called unlucky green for cars.
Quite a few said yes.

If Green cars are unlucky why did Britain take on the Racing Green as its colour?

Has Green been an unlucky colour for you or are there any other colours that are considered Unlucky???

My missus had a green 106 that was surprisingly difficult to sell for this exact reason.

For my own perspective the only *unlucky* cars I have ever had have been yellow.

Steve

For some reason my Great Nan won't have green in her house :confused:

Maybe she's just senile ;)

Yes!

I have had 2 light green (pepperminty) cars, and both have developed stupid annoying problems, but seemed fine when I test drove the feckers [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

It's not very relaxing driving down the motorway shouting at your car cause it keeps falling to bits :D

My next car is gonna be purple & orange. Will gloss paint stick in wet weather? :D

I dont buy green cars due to my old man he had two greens cars and were both difficult to sell and very unreliable. Dont really like green cars anyway.

Nope. Its just an ugly colour for a car.. :D

My mother and grandmother both believed green cars were unlucky. I can remember my mother being horified to discover that the metallic yellowish Datsun Cherry she'd just bought was actually "Mustard Green"!

A friend wouldn't even get into a green car because she thought they were unlucky.

You know you love it Kat :D

Just imagine it with red mudflaps :D

Had one green car Vaxhall Magnun (not the lolly) for you youngers here ;) its was like a old viva with slight diff styling and a 2.3 litre lump in
Had all sorts of trouble with it another green car your aving a laugh NO fanks

Nope. It'll still be ugly.. :D




*Avoids santa pod for the next 5 meets* :D

Seen as "luck" does not exist, how can a car be "un-lucky" just because the pigments in the paint reflect light of a certain frequency into your eyes ?

Green sucks:(

.......which probably explains why I can't sell my frickin' car.

No. That'd be white you're thinking of.

My families always said to me never buy a green car. So what do i go and do ? Youve got it went and bought a green fessy si when i was 18. Only had it 11 hours and totalled it.

Then a couple of years back i bought a green calibra turbo i had it 6 weeks and some crazy women in a bloody metro drove straight into it in a car park. She caused 6 grandsworth of damage.

So yes green is unlucky well to me. Thank god my cosssie was grey and my scoobs red lol.

I would never have a green car because I also believe they are unlucky. :D

I wonder if you believe that somethings unlucky it makes you more likely to behave in a way that MAKES something happen to it. I'm not taking the risk- no green for me. Plus they are hard to sell.

there was a list of the statistics of car crashes by colour on the back of 1 of my subaru dealer mags a while back dismissing the green is unlucky fernominan :D
Si (with his green machine:p & my good looks make up 4 any ugliness :eek:lol)

green was unlucky for me, green scoob write off. doh!! :( I have never had the same colour car twice, so wont be getting green again.

If there were any stastical basis for green being unlucky do you not think insurance companies would have picked up on it as an excuse to fleece people... erm I mean, provide realistic loading?

Is this an April Fools thing? ;)

I have bought my first green car. Avoided them like the plague before because of the unlucky stigma but i've had no problems with it so far! Also apparently, green car = genius owner?!?!?! Not in my case though!!!!

Not an April Fool thing, AFAIK, it comes from an old superstition that green BOATS were unlucky.
My family comes from Grimsby, which used to be the largest fishing port in the UK. Green boats were considered unlucky there, and had been for 100 years or so, well b4 cars were around.
Alcazar

Do you lot avoid walking under ladders and tripping over black cats? :)

LOL, I do! Also have to do ritual chantings if I see a single magpie, to reverse the bad luck thingy!!! :D

You're all just "green" with envy ;)

unlucky for sailors as green denotes a wreck !!

Its a Scottish thing then the green myth :D

I reckon the car's luck depends on the driver it gets rather than it's colour :)

Les

my old man got a green van yesterday and look what was on the drive today!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/viper-uk/green.JPG

lmao :D