On: Why do new cars look like wet putty?

[mc32]

Or, conversely people who like to speed buy red cars more frequently than other colors so that the majority of speeders end up driving red cars.

[jimnotgym → mc32]

There is a story in the UK that red cars get pulled over more often due to police playing 'snooker'. In a game of snooker you have to pot a red ball every other ball... when playing with cars it means a lot more red ones get pulled.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker

[butlerm → mc32]

He is claiming correlation not causation in the second. Correlation is symmetric, the converse is indistinguishable from the original.