--- title: "What Car Looks Best in Red?" date: "2024-02-14" modified: "2024-02-14" authors: - name: "Andrew P. Collins" job_title: "Executive Editor" link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/andrew-p-collins" url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/what-car-looks-best-in-red" categories: - "Culture" - "News" - "QOTD" --- # What Car Looks Best in Red? ![]() *\Mazda, altered by the author\* Happy Valentine's Day, folks. Have you paid your respects to Saint Capitalism (er, I mean Cupid) and bought a requisite teddy bear or [chocolate Miata]() yet? We can't offer guidance on what to buy your significant other, but we do like to judge automotive opinions. Today's for discussion: What car looks best in red? I suppose there are a few slightly different ways to interpret that question. What I had in mind is, simply, name a car that you see in red and go "hell yeah." But you could also think of it as "what car would you pick red *for*" or "of all the world's red cars, which wears it best?" So choose your own adventure. It's a classic sports car color, right? The unofficial color of Ferrari, there's that Prince song about the Corvette, and I bet you could think of a few more red-car cultural references easily enough. It's a vibe. Red is not for everyone. My first car, a '96 Acura [Integra](), was bright red to my delight but everyone in my family thought it made me look "too fast." They might have been right, because I crashed it not long after buying it. But the color's always been one of my faves; I'd rock it on almost any car. If I had to pick an all-time favorite for "car that looks good in red" though, I'd have to call out the third-gen (FD) RX-7. That car's electrifying design looks good in any color. But for me, that old-school '90s basic red adds just the right amount of *pow* to the car's presence. A red FD was also one of my first manual-transmission driving experiences. A family friend had bought one new, and let me wing it around the block a few times throughout its life when I was a teen. Core memories, to be sure. I have flirted with the idea of buying a red FD a few times, but it's always been a few financial rungs out of my reach. And the older they get, the more commitment they'll take to keep alive! I might just settle for a poster or something someday, but an FD RX-7 will always be one of the best-looking cars my eyes have ever seen—in red, of course. What's yours? ## Author As Executive Editor, Andrew touches everything on the site from daily news coverage to feature stories, sponsored content, product reviews, road testing vehicles, ecommerce, and more. He's held pretty much every role there is to have at an automotive news site and has been with The Drive's publisher Recurrent since 2020. Andrew's a lifetime gearhead and longtime writer with a particularly strong penchant for road trips, off-road adventures, and archaic vehicles. His passions outside of the automotive world include skiing, obsolete video games, and his dog Bramble who occationally helps review cars. ### Author social links [Instagram]() [LinkedIn]()