It's difficult to understand why car manufacturers don't use green more often as an exterior colo car.
The shades of green used by Saturn and Honda in the Vue and Element, for example, are memorable.
Nevertheless, according to the study released last week by DuPont, green was used in only two percent of all cars manufactured in 2007. It was the least popular
color.
The finest example I've seen of how cool green looks as a car color was the hard-to-describe tone of the 1955 Porsche on display last August at The Quail: A Motorsports Gathering at Quail Lodge in Carmel Valley.
Was it moss green or forest green? Whatever. It was stunning.
I took the image in this blog early in the afternoon where the Porsche stood out among more than two dozen vintage Porsches and the more than 100 other vehicles — Bentley to Maserati — in the one-day display. It was part of Monterey Auto Week, weeklong celebration that will be held this year, Aug. 11-16.
