Red 370 State Trooper Profiling
 

The red on the Z really is a beautiful color, but any of you guys with red got pulled over because it's red...I was driving about 80mph in my Z on the Interstate, and i could see the Red Z for what seemed like miles away.

i also heard that white has the same issue.

Yellow and Red will always be the worst. Red of course is the worst.

idk, i did have a local cop turn around a follow me when i was driving thru some hole in the wall town where the speed limit with from 65-25 mph.

yellow is a too in the face colour followed by red & blue.

black gets attention also

red is officially the worst.

We had a chart showing what color cars were being pulled over on average over the years and red was through the roof.

it had to do with the personality (speeders) of the drivers and the color cars they liked.

how did the other colours result in??


link?

I heard the same thing...Lucky me. I got RED.

i would think black got it the least or silver.

silver is the friendly one

im curious as well, link?

the same reason why poles in parking lots or on sidewalks have bright color bands around them so you don't hit them. They just catch your eye. I think the state troopers.. or in cali they are called CHP i guess are just jellous that they don't own a sports car themselves. And the ones that I know of that do don't really car unless you are doing something really dumb.

over here it's winter 6 months of the year. so whites & silvers blend in LOL

anything else stands out

Jesus... 6 months. I went to northern utah for my senior yr of highschool and it snowed for about 6 months as well. complete utter hell. i think i spelled utter wrong

White appears fastest and black appears slowest... hence i picked black :p

this car and winter dont mix i think...it'll be a lot like the Porsche that guy was driving in Just Friends...can u imagine chains around those 19" tires!

ok, chain on tires are illegal here.

we're not hill billies LOL

rear wheel drive is not bad in winters, its not all about the car. it's about the driving skills !!!

Do you have any idea how ludicrous that question is?

red cars seems like they get pulled over more because as said it attracts or gets the attention the most
red in general just catches the eye
in a parking lot(and or freeways) in a crowd of black/silver/green cars
bright colors will stand out

so if youre one of the lucky ones with a bright color car cops will notice you more and your SOL if your doing something stupid like speeding

I'd have to agree with him. I'd also like to see this statistic about "colored" cars being pulled over more frequently. Why does there have to be so much hate against us "colored" folk?! :stirthepot:

haha you also have to take into consideration... cop may be havin a bad day? any aftermarket parts that can be seen/heard. and location

is it true insurance premiums are higher for red cars when compared to lets say silver cars.

That's y I got Brilliant Silver. I didn't want anything 2 ostentatious.

LOL! My insurance never asked for the color of my car. Just make/model/VIN. I've owned two red cars, silver, grey, and now a yellow one, so i would have to say that is completely false.

I dont have a link to anything, this was years ago.

Refer to this link

I had a red 944 Turbo, and I basically got harassed by the cops. It was ridiculous. I had one pull me over and admitted he had no reason to, but he just wanted to make sure all my tags were up to date. Total BS!

Obviously your not going to get pulled over because your car is red, if you had kept reading you would have realized the point i was making was that the car is extremely visible down the road, and if you were doing something THAT WOULD GET YOU PULLED OVER you would probably get pulled over. Does that clear things up, or what?

Red cars
 

Snopes is your friend, sometimes.

snopes.com: Red Cars and Speeding Tickets

WINNER! :tup:

All sports cars suffer the state and local police and sheriff profiling issues, not just the Z. They do what they do because it is what it is...easy and consistent revenue.

No, it doesn't.

I think they can tell the color by the VIN.

^^ no they cant

http://www.the370z.com/nissan-370z-g...-decoding.html

Mostly irrelevant, but i drove around a BRIGHT YELLOW H1 for about 3.5 years and i was always getting pulled over by Florida Highway Patrol for "Random Vehicle Inspections".:shakes head: Record: 4 stops in a 3 hour span. :owned:

black is beautiful

Nope, White is beautiful.

Had a Red Supercharged RSX for 3 years.

0 Tickets

Pulled over 2 times and got warnings, I was nice to teh cops and they returned the favor.

Fortunate I guess.

Ohh yeah, blew by a Cop @ 145. He caught up minutes later, got behind me.......ran my plates.......and nothing. Just kept going. My heart was through my chest, I thought I was going to jail for sure. I actually think it was so fast he never got to see exactly what the car looked like or he was looking down not paying attention. Last time I went street racing. Been about 18 months now.

either ways, bright colours are an attention grabber & some cops will find excuses to pull over.

just drive normally is the moral here.

I have a white one and havent really gotten much attention from cops *knocksonwood*