What can one do as a passenger in a car traveling 515 miles down the spine of California? Well, you can play the 1-2-3 game with license plates or the A-B-C game. You can count the number of billboards or wrecked cars or the pieces of shredded tires strewn along the highway. Since none of these numbing time-killers appealed to me on yesterday's drive, I decided to do a survey of the makes, models and colors of cars and trucks. Very informative. Here are the results. Let me add that the number of cars in the survey was huge; many thousands. The unscientific part comes from the fact that the survey taker was sitting in a moving car.
Most popular brand overall: Toyota
Second most popular: Honda
Most popular color overall: Silver. There are several shades of silver. There's light silver, medium silver, dark silver, and silver silver.
Most popular color for a panel truck: white
Most popular colors for an SUV: Silver or black
Most popular color for a mini-van: silver
Most popular color for a sedan ~ that being any 2- or 4-door car: silver
Most popular colors for a pick-up: black or white
I saw no SmartForTwo on the road, 5 Mini Coopers, 7 Mercedes, a couple of Volvos. Many of the pick-ups were GM and Ford. A sprinkling of Hunday, Chevy, Saturn, Subaru, Kia, BMW. As for other colors, a few red, magenta, tan, beige. I saw one green panel truck, one yellow Hummer.
It helped pass the time.
1 comment:
Love it! We sure are seeing a lot of new Toyotas, Hondas and Smart Cars here in SF. Have a good time...
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