Who's bright idea was THAT!?!

You're a car designer in the early eighties for Pontiac.
You want to design a cool car that people will want to drive, 'cus it's got such a cool name.

After thinking and thinking and THINKING about what the most awesome name would be for your super car, you come up with 'SUNBURST'!
Now who WOULDN'T want to drive a car that was reminiscent of summer days, and fun in the sun?

So. What do you do next?
You paint it 'dried-blood red' of course...'cus that REALLY shows just how gosh darn fun it would be to drive. *
And that colour suits the name 'Sunburst' so very well.

All your friends would be jealous when you told them.

"I have a NEW CAR!" you shouted it proudly back in '84.

"What is it what IS it!!??" everyone would shout excitedly back.

"It's a 'dried-blood red' PONTIAC SUNBURST!" you'd reply...waiting for the cheers.

But there was no cheer, was there?
Your friends just looked uncomfortable and shuffled away. No one wanted to ride in your 'ride'.

So why on earth DO car companies paint cars in bad colors anyway?

I'm certainly not exempt from owning a car with a dodgy color...yes pun intended.
It was an old muscle car... a 1970 Dodge Charger.

And it was BROWN.

Yup, plain old BROWN!

In fact, it was brown like DIRT!

Why paint a fast and powerful car, meant to impress friends and enemies, BROWN!!??!!!

Why???

And the iridescent, glow in the dark STICKER that ran the length of the car didn't do it any favours, either.
(Yeah, I know. It really was a sticker. I wouldn't lie about a thing like that. I'm sorry.)

I mean, you can't evade the law when your bloody car lights up like fireworks when the cops headlights catch you turning a corner in an effort to make a high speed, sneaky get away.

Believe me. I tried.
It didn't work.

Geeeeezzzzzz.......

*now, 'freshly-spilt blood red' is a color of a different...uh...color, I guess