Why do people insist on buying canary yellow sportscars? Seriously, try as I might, I can’t come up with a single line of reasoning to back this up. It’s completely inexplicable. Why, if you’re going to spend $50,000 on a brand spanking new Corvette, would you want it to look like a motherfucking taxi? Why? The president of one of the companies I worked for back in the late 90s had a yellow Dodge Viper. It was hideous, but visible. Maybe that’s the point, but if so, it’s a dumb one – sure, people are more likely to notice you if your low-slung souped-up super-coupe is fluorescent in color, but then again, people are also a lot more likely to notice that you’re a complete fucking retard.
rather more than you needed to know
Sambo 2 June 2004 at 01:14
but yellow is cool. like good ol’ american mustard. and bananas. and my eyes that time i took those crazy pills. and a hat i wore in kindergarten. i’m partial to off-mauve, however. and burnt siena. but maybe, just maybe, people are really just looking at my penis — uh, my car — and not the color of my really fast phallus.
Angela 4 June 2004 at 11:58
My roommate is one of those guys with a bright yellow sports car. Even worse it’s a Mitsubishi Lancer. It is hideous. When we go out in it he always thinks that people are envyous of it. More then likely they are making fun of him.
Monica 6 June 2004 at 12:27
More insane people drive yellow cars than any other color. Insurance companies did a real study on car color preference–ie, red cars get the most speeding tickets, gray cars are in the most accidents, and for some reason yellow is the preferred vehicle color of the mentally unstable. Hope that helps…
Chris 8 June 2004 at 06:38
Yellow…. Shocking! It’s very Freud. Fecal, if you will. A ‘man’ suspended on a shocked absorbing death contraption streaming down the Kennedy like the biggest stray of urine… ever. Very macho! My car is musk and the road… my tree!
It’s not even a power colour.
RED – Stop
Blue – Secure
Green – GO
Yellow – Yield.
Yield! What sort of message is that? If our sports cars were to be our final epitaph to the earth… what does yellow mean?
I almost made it. I could have been… I will never have a fully erect member. I am almost good enough? I will be paying for this one til my kids are long out of College?
Fear Yellow… Especially snow.
Yes Weeza, I am still in Ireland.