According to feng shui, choosing the right color for one’s car is more than just an issue of personal preference.

THE Chinese New Year is upon us and the time has come to look inside ourselves and ask how our year will turn out. Will we make tons of money? Will our bosses finally give us that raise or promotion we have been waiting or asking for? And, more importantly, how lucky will we be?           

Well since this is after all a motoring article and we do want to give out some unsolicited help to our readers regarding their luck, this writer decided to consult his personal Feng Shui Master Lillian Too what colors of their cars would give luck to each native of the Chinese horoscope animal signs.

But before we go there, we need to find out what your animal sign is and your respective kua number, which will dictate your lucky car color. Complicated? Well, below is a chart of birth years and kua numbers for male and female so we can go forward with Too’s predictions.

Now that we know our kua numbers, we have to compare it against this table below to find out your personal element and its representative colors. It is generally more beneficial for you to select a color that supports your personal element.

As a rule, if the color of your car reinforces your personal kua element, it will help to bring you overall good luck. So, if your kua number is 1, then a midnight blue exterior with black leather interior would be an excellent choice for you.

Now, for those who like to fine-tune their personal Feng Shui, they can select colors that better suit their individual needs and requirements. Let us say you use your car to bring your kids to school or your wife to work, these are activities centered on family, Too says it would be more favorable to select a color that boosts your Nien Yen element. So if your kua number is 2, it is advisable to to have a car with a white exterior paint and gray interior design.

But if your kua number is 3, and you are solidly after more money, career luck and a general increase in wealth, then tomato red exterior is an auspicious color for your car.

Again, below is a chart, created by the Chinese horoscope masters about two millennium ago, that can guide in your choice of automobile colors to attract better luck and stay safe within your vehicle.

Recent Hong Kong and Singapore surveys of consumer preference showed that more than one third (35 percent to 40 percent) choose silver or metallic grey as the color for their personal vehicles.

In fact, silver has been gaining popularity, displacing white as the fastest-selling color since 2000, among Feng Shui believers. Still, white and its pearlescent variations, continues to be one of the most popular car colors (25 percent to 30 percent).

Red is still a top favorite says Too, despite it statistically having the highest percentage of road accidents.

Then there is Gold, which has moved to the top 10 popular car colors.

Being a period of 7, from a Feng Shui point of view, technological advances along with the preference for metallic colors appear to be reflective of the properties of the period of 7.

Now, I must say here, and very emphatically, that safety on the road and inside your car has very little to do with luck and more with following the road rules and safety procedures.

But then, at a time when we all look to the future and try to plot a path to progress and self-improvement, what harm would matching your car’s color to your Feng Shui sign be. This writer has kua sign of 2 and he is definitely going to try to buy himself a yellow exterior with gray interior car—if he is lucky enough to get the money to buy one, that is!

Check Lillian Too at www.wofs.com, for more information.

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