Be careful about the colour of car (103)_____ you buy. Experts (104)_____ said that the value of a second-hand car can vary (105)_____ up to 10% just because of its colour. It seems that today nobody wants white cars. In fact, white is (106)_____ unpopular that it (107)_____ reduce the value of the car by thousands of euros when the owner decides to sell (108)_____. So what's a safe colour to choose? Well, if you go (109)_____ silver, you won't have (110)_____ problems in re-selling.

But why is colour important? 'It is mainly down (111)_____ fashion,' says a car expert. '(112)_____ the 1980s and 1990s, red and white were very popular. Now, they (113)_____ seen as old-fashioned and silver is the best alternative. It looks good on most models of car and buyers want to follow the trend so that they don't lose money.'

Colour has always (114)_____ a factor in making cars. Henry Ford made the Model T only in black - not because it looked better, (115)_____ because it was the cheapest colour to paint a car (116)_____ that time. Even as late as the mid-1950s one-third of all cars that (117)_____ sold in Britain were black.