No less than 70% of new cars sold in North America last year were white, black, grey or silver. Jalopnik readers know that's a shame. They picked ten awesome alternatives to boring old grayscale.

Yesterday, BMW Designworks' lead designer in color, materials and finish Sandy McGill told Motoramic that Apple is responsible for making white the most popular car color.

To complete today's bout of self-referrentialism, the New York Times ran my article on "crazy car colors" — check out the great slide-show and see how I got the name of a porno into a NYT article. [NYT]

When you see a mode of customization show up on Lindsay Lohan’s Rolls–Royce, you know it’s time to move on. Or is it?

It's never enough to sell a car with a unique color. Automakers also have to give the colors a matching unique name. From an "Assuan"-colored van to a "Wicked Merlot" convertible, here's ten cars with seriously bizarre color names.

Last week we asked you to imagine the worst car color combination. You came up with so many amazing responses of production cars with catastrophic color choices, we've used them to compile a top ten list of the best of the worst. Hit the jump to for the ten worst production car color combinations and see how far…