- I don't know what to do. I'm going crazy. Guess I'll just keep making car videos. Why do you paint a car yellow? To give it some oomph? To make a statement? So you can always find
your car in a parking lot? Whatever the reason, you can't
just paint any car yellow. And on top of that, you can't
just use any yellow paint. But if you do it right then
you've just created a legend. These are the 15 best
yellow cars ever made. There's even a yellow conspiracy theory in this list so stay tuned. This is D- List. Before we get started, we
make these videos for you. We have a new video every day now. To make sure you don't miss anything just go ahead and subscribe. Hit that notification bell. It's really the best way for us to know that we're doing a good job. Officially this episode is dedicated to you, Guy Fieri. Coming in at number 15, the Dodge Viper in dandelion yellow. The first generation
Dodge Viper was unveiled to the world in 1991 when it was made the honorary pace car for that year's Indianapolis 500 and it was driven by the one and the only number one car dude ever, Mr. Carroll Shelby. Out of nowhere we had an
American made two-seater, front-engined sports car
with no traction control, no anti-lock brakes, no airbags, because in the minds of
the guys who made the car that stuff weighed too much. It looked like Hulk Hogan
if Hulk Hogan were a car. 400 hrsprs, 465 pound-feet of torques in a car that only weighed 3,200 pounds. My jeans cost more than
3,200 British pounds. The Dodge Viper RT/10 was
an insane car to drive so naturally it came in a color called, why you call it dandelion
yellow of course. Dandelion, dandelion, dandelion yellow is the color of the flower. Don't be fooled by the name. Dandelion yellow is all things to all men. At high noon it takes on a much brighter, almost Day-Glo appearance. But stalking the streets
of Detroit after dark, this Viper's bold yellow
is toned down merging with the amber hues of the street lights bringing to the Viper's
body an eerie calm. But you know what you don't want to trust? A snake when he's calm. He's just waiting, waiting patiently to strike. Number 14, the fifth gen
Chevy Camaro in rally yellow. Now when the fifth gen came out, the Camaro had been missing from the scene for almost a decade. So Chevy knew that with
its debut they really had to make a bang. The first time America saw
this Camaro in this color was in a little movie
starring Shia LaBeouf called Transformers. That's right, this car
is freaking Bumblebee, the Nolan of the Transformers Universe. The sensitive, ass kicking
Autobot was the first chance the public had to gaze upon the new Camaro and its new color rally yellow. Now rally yellow is as loud and impressive as the Camaro which it covers. It's vibrant but respectable. It's for lack of a better word, delicious. Also a cool note, NASCAR
team owner Rick Hendrick bought all four of the
Bumblebee Camaros last year at an auction for a half a million bucks. Weird flex. I want to dedicate this one to my boy from the great up north,
Yuri from The Straight Pipes. Number 13, we got the Plymouth Prowler in a very fitting shade of prowler yellow. The 1997 Plymouth Prowler
is a polarizing car. Some people love it, others hate it. But one thing that nobody can deny is the fact of how fitting it looks in the paint named after itself. That's like me making up a color and calling it Pumphrey
Pink because I'm a pink boy. The Prowler began life
as a 1993 concept car called the Prowler. It was commissioned by
Chrysler to be a sister car to the Dodge Viper that
we just talked about. Now initially it was built
using the Chrysler V6 which produced 214 horsepower but in 1999 it was swapped for the more refined, more powerful version
which would now crank out 253 horsepower which
was nothing to sneeze at in those days. In fact this V6 was more powerful than the Magnum V8 which
was Dodge's V8 at the time. So for anyone who says,
"Man, the one problem "with the Prowler is they
should've put a V8 in it." You're dead wrong. I mean it's okay to be wrong. I used to think the same thing until I started researching
it and it turns out I was dead wrong. And I'm a grown up man so
I'm willing to admit it. So what is Prowler yellow? Well it's almost a pale yellow which us yellow aficionados
know is a very risky move. But you want to know something? Plymouth actually knocked
it out of the freaking park. Number 12, the Honda S2000,
oh this is a good one, in spa yellow pearl. I know it's named after a race track but I'm thinking steam room
hanging out in my towel with a bunch of other boys. If you guys ever notice
me looking over here, it's because I'm Google chatting with Max and he's directing me and
I'm trying to make him laugh. It turns out Honda is the
best at making yellow cars. So much so that three
of them made this list. The S2000 is one of the coolest cars to ever come out of Japan. Revered for its perfect
weight distribution, its balanced handling,
and its dead ass reliable, high revving, two liter,
four cylinder VTech engine which produced 247
horsepower and almost three pound-feet of torques all
in a car which weighed less than 3,000 pounds. Now it wouldn't be until
2001 for that glorious spa yellow that we had all
grown so used to seeing and lusting after to be added
to the US domestic market. And it wasn't a moment too soon. Spa yellow is like the smell of a freshly washed sweatshirt. It's like the smile of an old friend across a crowded room. You guys remember crowded rooms, I do. Spa yellow is what's known
as a three-stage paint, meaning firstly a base coat is applied. This case, yellow. Second up is a translucent layer made up of pearlescent elements. And then finally a clear coat is applied to amplify the colors beneath it and protect them from the elements. And that is why these more complex colors are more often than not additional extras which cost a lot of money. For every Honda S2000
owner who decided to pay the extra to get the
yellow, D-List salutes you. Up next, keep this Honda train rolling. Number 11, Integra Type
R in the legendary, absolutely legendary Phoenix yellow. I mean it's an Integra, all right? It's Integra Type R and
the Integra as we all know is one of the poster cars of JDM culture. When it was released
first to Japan in 1995, and then across the world
finally here in the US in '97. It was an absolute revelation. It was a car with 197
hrsprs with maximum power and torque coming in at 8,000 RPM. Vtech, baby bop. US spec car was only available
in championship white for all but the final two
years of its production run. And then it could be ordered
in two black pearl colors and Phoenix yellow. Now Phoenix yellow is a non-pearl version of spa yellow but having
that flat, rich yellow color gave the Integra a
completely different vibe. This wasn't a garage queen, okay. This isn't for sitting on a trailer. This was a car built to drive
and built to drive fast. You get it all dinged
up, you don't care, man. This car looks better covered
in brake dust and dirt. And how flexy is it for Honda to release a yellow car with red insides? It's like Ronald freaking McDonald if Ronald McDonald was the best front wheel drive car ever made. This is the third episode of this show and it's the first episode
where every single car on this list is one that I want. I don't know, I used to hate yellow cars but now I love them. I think they're just such a flex. I don't know if it's because
donut colors are yellow. I don't know if it's
because our logo is yellow. I got this yellow mic now. I got these, check this out. FFD-515, that's the official donut yellow. I don't know, Max, maybe we take that out. Number 10, the Honda NSX in
the beautiful Rio yellow. I assume that it's named after that movie where Johnny Depp plays
a gecko who is a cowboy. Rio yellow pearl was a
color inspired by the yellow in the Brazilian flag, the home country of Honda's adopted son Ayrton Senna. And it was added to replace spa yellow for the final two years of NSX production as an amouage to some
people including myself considered to be the greatest driver ever. Rio yellow had a way, way
higher metallic content than spa yellow did which
meant that it was darker in flat light, but when the sun came out, that's when that color
really came to life, just like Superman. Number nine, the Mazda
Miata in sunburst yellow. Now the Miata looks cute in any color on any road or any track in any condition. Garage queen or beater car, it ain't make no difference to me. The Miata is cool but for my
money Miata hit the home run when in 1992 they made the
little, little baby car in the beautiful sunburst yellow. Now sometimes the car picks the color. Other times the color picks the car. Now sadly, or fortunately
depending on how you look at it, sunburst yellow was a one year
only special edition for 1992 meaning that only about
1,519 were ever produced. That's only a couple hundred
more than the total amount of Ferrari F40s ever produced. So not only was sunburst
yellow incredibly rare, pretty much all sunburst Miatas were also incredibly basic which somehow
makes them even cooler. Speaking of Ferrari F40s, number eight, the Ferrari F40 in alleged yellow. The Ferrari F40 is quite
possibly the Scuderia's most recognizable road going car. It's famous boxy looks
and undeniable beauty are matched only by the
tortured harmonic screams which emanate from its 2.9
liter, twin turbo charged, mid-mounted V8. The F40 is known across
the world as the Ferrari. And it really was a car
meant to be enjoyed in red. Seeing that each and every
one of the 1,315 F40s produced were finished in the Marquee's
classic rossa corsa red, every single one of them. Except maybe not all of them. There's actually a
legitimate conspiracy theory that claims that numerous
F40s left the factory in other colors. Now these alleged non-red
cars were snuck out of the Marinella factory
under the cover of darkness, destined to be part of
the Sultan of Brunei's alleged $9,000,000,000 car collection. Now reports vary about
how many F40s were painted and in what colors. The only one people are
absolutely certain about is the yellow one. And the only reason we
know that is because it never made it to Brunei. Instead it was stored in the UK for when members of
the Brunei royal family would come visit and they
needed a car to I don't know, go get groceries in. Most people don't have a vacation house, much less a vacation house car. And then I'd say most of the
time it's a freaking Jeep. Now to this day, Ferrari
claims that every single F40 was rosso corsa red. And they deny whole-heartedly
these yellow cars. But regardless of who actually painted it, thing looks (beep) sick. Now no list of yellow
cars would be complete without this next car. The Ruf Yellowbird, raise the roof. The Ruf CTR or as it more commonly known, the Yellowbird, is quite simply one of the most impressive sports cars in the history of this
entire freaking planet. It's based on a 1987 911 Carrera 3.2S. All aluminum panels
replace practically every factory steel Porsche panel which resulted in a loss of 441 pounds
over its factory cousin. Add to that an increase in displacement from 3.2 to 3.4 liters
and the ignition setup from a 962 race car. Oh and also two huge freaking
spinny boi turbochargers which bumped power output up
to 463 horsepower in 1987. Are you kidding me? You like turbos? Check out this shirt. We started a gang. It's called Boost Creeps. You don't have to own a
turbo to be part of the gang. Go to donutmedia.com and get you one. It's a very cool shirt. It's my favorite one that we have. The story goes that the
night before the car was due to do some high speed testing runs at the famous Ehra-Lessien Test Circuit, one of Ruf's technicians
had the bright idea that if they painted the car in a color other than red which is what they were gonna paint it originally, then it would stand out
and would really pop. They painted the CTR the
night before the test runs and the very next day during that test someone said that the bright yellow roof looked like a yellow bird flitting across the horizon. And because of that the name stuck. Now a lot of people, myself included, have a very nostalgic
feeling about this car because for a long time
it was the only Porsche that you could get in video games. So if you played a video
game with a Porsche in it anywhere in the late '90s,
early 2000s, it was a Ruf. Number six, the BMW
E36 M3 in Dakar yellow. Now why is it called Dakar yellow? Because Dakar yellow. ♪ Digga doo doo doo ♪ Now BMW has made quite a
few really great yellows over the years. Some of note would be Austin yellow on the current M3 and M4s. Or Phoenix yellow which
came on the E46 M3, also known as cat piss yellow. A lot of people hate on it. I like it, but in my IMHO, which stands for in my hostily opinion, the best yellow car that BMW ever made was the E36 M3 in Dakar yellow. Dakar yellow takes its
name as you might imagine from the Paris Dakar endurance race. BMW's air-cooled adventure
bikes have always been super popular and very
successful in this rally. And BMW has a habit of naming colors after areas of motor sport
where they find success. Laguna Seca Blue, Silver Stone metallic, Mola red, mali blue, Kalahari beige. That's named after a South African rally. Now speaking objectively,
I'd say Dakar yellow is a pale yellow, a very bold choice then to paint your company's halo fast sedan in such a muted hue of yellow. But BMW knew what they were doing. They knew they had a car good enough to carry off this shade of yellow without becoming a laughing stock and labeled a lemon. They didn't want to be called a lemon, why did paint their car yellow? Now this is one of the few cars that has ever been able
to make light yellow look absolutely bad ass. And for that reason it
was one of the first cars I thought of when we
decided to make this list. Coming in at number five
is a funny little car and that's why I put it on this list because I think they're hilarious looking, the Saab 900 in Monte Carlo yellow. Saab is one of the early adopters of one of my favorite things
and that is terbachergers. And Saab is the only
manufacturer that could pull off three spoke wheels, yellow
paint and a convertible all in the same car and still manage to look pretty freaking cool. Monte Carlo yellow has a
certain serenity to it. It's almost milky and it's also a color which is featured heavily
on the Swedish flag which makes it a patriotic choice and for that reason I salute you. Shouts to Jesse, he's one
of the smartest dudes I know and if he owns three Saabs then hell, they're pretty good. Number four, the Mk3 Volkswagen Golf GTI driver's edition in the
beautiful ginster yellow. The Mk3 Golf is very close to my heart and you would know that
if you ever paid attention to my Instagram or me in general, Dad. I absolutely love this third gen Golf even though most people
tend to call it fat and say that it's not
really good at anything. Kind of like I was in middle school. Maybe that's why I like it, I can relate. I've honestly owned
about 15 to 20 of these but never one in ginster yellow. Now you've heard a
little back story on me. A little back story on this car. In 1997 VW released the
driver's edition GTIs to celebrate an anniversary. I think it was 25 years
of the GTI in the US and you could get them in two colors, jazz blue which is awesome. or ginster yellow which is awesome. These cars also had special wheels and color coded stitching
on the steering wheels and shift boot as well
as a special shift knob. That's how you knew it
was for an anniversary. And shouts to Eurowise Performance who currently has my car. I hope that this whole thing clears up so I can come get it some
day and drive it again. Coming in at number three, quite possibly the most iconic yellow car
in the history of history, the Checker yellow taxicab. Now cabs in New York used to
be a bunch of different colors like red and green until everyone decided, hey, yellow stands out more. We'll know that this is a taxi. But there were all different
kinds of shades of yellow until the 1960s when
the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission
took it upon themselves to make a decision and
put out very strict rules on what specific shade of
yellow taxicabs could be, the shade taxi yellow. The yellow cab is an
American icon, just like me. And from one American icon to another, I bring you number two, the C6 Corvette in velocity yellow. Yellow has for many decades been the color of the dominant Corvette
race cars in America. Now velocity yellow is the
ever so slightly darker shade which was applied to the C6 Corvette which was produced from 2004 to 2013. In fact, velocity yellow
was one of the most popular colors during this production run which is insane. Now I think yellow is
probably the perfect color for the Corvette, a car which is fast, exciting, even dangerous if
you don't treat it right. But more than all of that, the Corvette is about having fun. And who wouldn't have fun
in a velocity yellow car? I don't know, maybe Scrooge. Now as long as the sun rises
and the birds are chirping, I'm assuming there will
always be a yellow Corvette. It just makes sense. Guys, we freaking made it. We have reached the end of the list. Number one, the most bad ass yellow car to ever exist, Michael
Schumacher's one of one Bugatti EB110 SS, Gialo Bugatti. Gialo is Italian for yellow. It's spelled with a G. Now somehow you've made it
through this entire video and you're still somehow on the fence about how totally rad yellow cars are, I'm gonna leave you with
just a little anecdote and you just tuck it under your pillow and you sleep on it
and maybe you'll dream. Okay in 1994, Michael
Schumacher was leading the Formula One driver's
championship with Benetton and was well on his way to securing his first world championship
and he needed a new daily. So did he choose a Ferrari? The manufacturer that he already had a strong relationship with
and was about to go drive for for the next season, going on to claim five championships with? A total of seven across his entire career? No, he did not. Maybe then he would choose something from his home country of Germany. Maybe a really cool BMW
or a Mercedes Cosworth. No, he did not. Michael Schumacher bought himself a 600 horsepow`er, 218 mile per hour, fastest production car
in the world at the time, Bugatti EB110 SS. And not only did he have the absolute crazy balls to do that,
but he also had it painted banana yellow, also
known as Gialo Bugatti. Gialo Bugatti is the yellowest of yellows and it is the most vibrant
shade on this list. Traditionally EB110s and most Bugattis through the years have been delivered in the color of France,
French racing bleu. But to take the world's fastest car, an Italian made quad
turbo French super car and order it in banana
yellow, that takes commitment. And that is something we
knew that Michael Schumacher had in spades. And you know what? That is the coolest yellow car ever and I love yellow cars. Thank you so much for watching this video and everything else on Donut. We make these videos
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