Red or black car, who are the hottest (Re: Spontaneous Windshield Breakage?!?)

["John Torset" <johnt@borre.mail.telia.com>]

>>an opposite effect: if you drove your car for a while with the A/C
>set to
>>low temperature and then left the car in a sunny spot, the
>>windshield
>could
>>get rapidly heated and break from the stress.

>Good point. I never thought of that before. Thinking of the my
>windshield being glued to the car body and the fact that the car is
>black which attracts heat makes it even worse.

A sidestep: Some years ago the had a test in the Norwegian AAA
magazine Motor, showing the result of an "sunheat test". They used the
the same make and model of a car of wich I can't remember, with
different paint.

As expected, the White car was the coldest one.
The surprise was that the read car became hotter than the black car.

Anybody who know if this is true for all cars, that red cars become
the hottest one ?.

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John Torset
Amiga 4000
Audi V8 quattro