Floridians and black cars

I don't think the OP was trying to generalize that every black car is hotter than every light colored car, just trying to point out that it's not logical to choose the black version when other colors are available in such a warm area. Your black car may be pretty cool in the summer, but science dictates that it absorbs heat more than it would in white.

I live in Ohio and my black car is pleasantly warmer than my light blue car for much of the winter. This sadly ends once they are both covered in snow.

Here's a parallel question: Why do there seem to be so many black E30s? At least in the project car price range. And the E34 Touring I'm stalking for a project car is black, too.

I did not intend to cause co-literal damage.

ShadowSix wrote: I don't think the OP was trying to generalize that every black car is hotter than every light colored car, just trying to point out that it's not logical to choose the black version when other colors are available in such a warm area. Your black car may be pretty cool in the summer, but science dictates that it absorbs heat more than it would in white.

First proven by Benjamin Franklin, BTW. With a black E30.

ReverendDexter wrote:

integraguy wrote: again, a literal oven.

Unless you literally cooked something in that car, you can't say this.

Heck, I'll step in and defend his use, since we used to quite literally bake things on the back deck of my fathers 67 Mustang. Baby blue with blue interior. In the Massachusetts summer sun.

Baking shrinky-dinks was what we kids used to do the most. Dad thought it was all funny and overblown until he melted down a set of some sort of expensive sunglasses.

Black may well absorb more solar energy than white, that much is true. To declare it would make the interior hotter, that is false. Insulation, conductivity, etc all come into play, and often negate a heat rise inside.

A good example of this, the use of black shade cloth over green houses, to keep them cooler.

I would guess that the GLASS in a car absorbs more heat (& re-transmits more of it into the interior) than the metal body. Probably something like 70/30 if you could even make that distinction.

ReverendDexter wrote:

integraguy wrote: again, a literal oven.

Unless you literally cooked something in that car, you can't say this. You cannot use literally as a generic intensifier. It's the ONE word in the English language that has to be protected. Mangle the rest of it as much as you like, but leave "literally" alone.

Yeah, like, literally.

I've been branded by those chrome metal buckles GM used in everything. Oww.

I dd a black E30, and it isn't so bad. Sunshade and the most tint you can legally have (which is a E36 M3load in Florida) help a lot.