Why Are Green Cars Considered Unlucky? Or Red Dangerous?

I've not really heard than green cars are considered unlucky. Green is a secondary colour so there generally are not many green cars on the roads. Red is considered dangerous maybe because it's so bright and red is for danger on signs and on traffic lights it indicates STOP doesn't it? Someone once said to me (over 15 years ago) that there were more red cars on the roads than other colours which is why it seemed red cars have more accidents. I had new company cars every 6 months during the 90s and I used to just go from red to blue to red to blue every time. My current car is blue which I've had for 10 years but I didn't avoid red because it was deemed dangerous, just at the time of ordering I fancied the blue shade better! Come to think of it, I can't think of the last time I saw a red Peugeot 206, that's made me think now, I'll be looking out for them lol!

I have a red car and no one has ever told me that it was dangerous. I scraped my knuckles on it once so perhaps it is. I used to drive a bright yellow car and people must thought that was unlucky becuase they usd to say very rude things about it. I wouldn't buy black because I don't think that they hold their value. But that's about it.

as human beings we are always trying to make sense and control random events. In order to do this we invent concepts like good /bad luck, its just chance, or god. Just a man-made concept to answer the unanswerable questions. I guess the continued existence of superstitions such as luck, religion, preying, are evidence of the continued ignorence of the human species blessed be

I drive a silver car at the moment. I have heard about green cars being unlucky, I dont know why either, but Ive never heard of anything to do with other colours. I would presume red would be safe, being bright and easy to see.

YA what u said was quite right.. green car at times cannot be seen properly under bushes.. red color is not dangerous as far as i know.. i own a black car..

well i have never heard about that green car is unlucky!!!! well i dont believe it coz i have a green car and it didnt let me down ever plus iam so lucky

I don't know anything about a green car, but having worked for an insurance company red is not necessarily dangerous, but gets in more accidents, because younger people drive them the most and they are the most risky drivers, driving too fast ignoring stop signs etc, and so they get into more accidents, also people tend to steal more red cars than other colour cars, many of the racing cars and high priced cars are red.

hi ellie..wow i never heard about that..but its very interesting our car is white.

I've heard that red color cars are easily spotted when you're going over the speed limit, so more prone to tickets. That's why I've never bought a red car :D as I got enough tickets driving a navy blue car. I now drive a beige car. I never heard anything about a green car. it never occurred to me that it might blend in with bushes. How would that matter? People don't usually run into bushes!

hi ellie wish i could answer that one only my ex had a green car and it was forever going wrong and he had to keep paying out to get it right-my son had a red car it was a lovely peugot and very smooth but then all of a sudden it broke down and the engine needed replacing brake pads you name it had to be done -it cost £300 to get it back on the road!! now he has a black car and all is well-am being more positive with that one-but he wont ever by a red or green car again!!your friend littleowl

Wow, I am seriously thinking of painting my car green in a year or so. I think it's a beautiful color! I'm not superstitious, though, so I don't care. I've heard that light grey is called "the invisible color" and are the ones most often involved in collisions on gray, cloudy and rainy days. A cop in Arizona told me this when we were talking about my buying a car. And he pooh-poohed the theory about red cars getting stopped more often--it's the upscale cars of any color that are going too fast or driving erratically. Upscale cars are often red and so are a lot of speeding teenagers' cars, he said, and that accounts for the superstition. So yes, red cars are stopped more often but for good reasons. :-)

I own a white truck,red bronco,black ranger and silver explorer...No one has ever said anything about the colors of my vehicles...All though I have heard red vehicles are involved in more accidents...We did own a brown car that we wrecked everytime we washed it...My husband has wrecked 2 of the wrecks we own....So I think its the driver not the color..LOL

well i think dats crazy..i dun believe in ny of these..i myself drive a red estello..

I've never heard anything about green cars, but I have heard about the red ones. Apparently, red is the most popular color for cars so there are more red cars out there than any other color. Because there are so many mroe red cars, when there's an accident, odds are higher that a red car is involved. It's not necessarily taht red cars are more dangerous to drive, it's just that the odds are higher for a red car to be in an accident because there are more red cars on the roads.

I used to drive red sport car. Red cars are stopped by police without any reason. If you have 3 cars on the road and all 3 are speeding, red is always the one stopped by police.... I get more tickets during one year with red car that all other tickets in my life... I will never have red car again.

I have never heard any of these things. I have heard that red cars are more likely to be pulled over by the police. I have also heard that white cars are the safest color to have. The funny thing is, I used to have a red sports car. I drove it too fast and never got pulled over in it. A local tv crew crashed into it because they ran a red light and totalled it two months after I got it though. I then was given a white rental car (NOT sporty at all) and got a ticket the first week I had it. I didn't know the speed limit and it changed at the bottom of a hill so of course that is where a cop sat. Anyway, I have been pulled over in two white cars and never in my red one.

cuz some poeple are stupid and supersticious and i dont have a car, ill get one when they come back with the electric car (which they killed)

To me it doesn't matter what color you have it depends on you. we used to have a blue van an a tan car until my husband ended up in a power chair and now I have no car to drive because of this. wished I did. and the car gets you from point a to point b that is all that matters tome.

i don't know for the green color, but Color RED, from what i heard is dangerous, dangerous in the eye of the cops or law enforcers, it is said that in the states having a red car has a lot more expensive insurance copared to the other colors, because it can be easily detect and identified by law enforcers if the red car is violating, moreso it is said that more red cars has involved in car accidents compare to other colors due to its brightness,and getting others attention.

I've heard that it's actually possible to buy a green car cheaper than other colours because it's so unpopular! Weird huh? It's a good thing for people like me I suppose. I love the colour British Racing Green on cars, I think it's pretty classy. My only red car was certainly unlucky. Not because I had an accident in it but just because it fell apart & cost me a fortune!!