Sir Henry, I couldn't agree more. I've been the proud owner of a SSB roadster for several years so, when I was in the market for an SRT6 last year, I thought I'd have a change and go black. I did, however, end up with an SSB one for 3 main reasons (aside from the obvious, that SSBs are faster!!)

1. The lighter colours accentuate the lines of the car better and show off the contrast between the panels.

2. As you said, black is a pig to keep 'looking' clean!

3. All the black cars I looked at seemed to suffer considerably more from stone chips than the metallics, especially on the wings by the headlights. I can only put this down to the black paint being a softer or more brittle formula??

Black does look more evil though and a matt black one would rock!!