Your car talks!

The colour of everything you use – from your shirt and pen ink to your car – can spill the beans about your personality. Changing the colour of your wardrobe might be easy, but you certainly wouldn't like getting stuck with a car whose colour doesn't introduce you in the best of ways.
Car colour is determined by various factors like age, gender, and cultural and local influences, but you should make sure that it speaks the best things about you.As Zubin Viccajee, a car workshop owner puts it, "Red is synonymous with sex, speed, thoroughness and dynamism." And neutral grey car owners are sober and pragmatic.
Colour therapist Rashmi Rajpal opines, "Black cars are the choice of ambitious drivers who want to project an image of success. Blue indicates a team player who's sociable, trustworthy and friendly. Silver has a connotation of flair." According to hair stylist and owner of a black car, Laila Kakade, the choice of your car colour not only reveals your lifestyle but your marital status too!
"Married people tend to choose subdued shades. Many top businessmen and company executives prefer luxury colours like black, silver, and grey," shares Rashmi. "Brown or orange are for people who are practical, independent and like to race. These colours represent sensibility, punctuality and simplicity.
Saket Talwar, owner of a car showroom, says, "Apart from personality, the model of a car also decides its colour. Big cars, small cars and mid-segment cars have their own colour trends. Red, blue and yellow are young colours that are associated with sports cars, convertibles and luxury compacts," agrees car designer Sudhakar Yadav, popularly known as Car Sudhakar.
Sometimes, brands make a conscious effort to associate themselves with certain colours. Say Ferrari and you think red. Bright yellow is synonymous with Lamborghini and a Pontiac has to be green. Henry Ford made black T Model's signature colour because at that time no other colour could dry as fast. This facilitated faster production to meet the car's immense demand.
"But nowadays, a whole gamut of colours - approximately 1.2 million shades - are available. Even the unusual shades like beige, gold or a turquoise. But, not many people are experimental," says Saket. "Many manufacturers in India are infusing grey with green, blue and even purple to derive new more personalised variants of a colour that would have otherwise found fewer takers in a relatively more conservative market such as India," admits Mahesh C Raman, a car enthusiast who deals in vintage bikes and cars.