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Sure, the "color experts" at PPG Industries have their theories about why white has suddenly jumped to the top of global exterior-color preferences for cars after ten straight years of silver at the pinnacle. They surmise that it's because white connotes cutting-edge, and that's what we all want to be.

"Silver, at one time, was considered high-tech, innovative," Jane Harrington, manager of color style and automotive coatings for the company that used to be known as Pittsburgh Plate Glass (and still provider of PPG Pittsburgh Paints), told the Detroit Free Press. "Think about white. What has Apple [introduced] their product in? White."

Pardon us, Ms. Harrington, but haven't Apple products before the iPhone 4 been available in white for many years?Continue reading...