You can paint your car whatever color you want ... Of 2024 Ranked In the oldest days of automotive engineering, rubber tires weren't even a thing. Vehicle wheels were originally made of wood ...

Narrator: Have you ever wondered why all car tires you see are black? It wasn't always like this. When automakers first started using rubber tires, they were white, the color of natural rubber.

I enjoyed walking through the lot of new vehicles with their impossibly spotless paint jobs and smudge ... the molten rubber that will harden into a tire has to be forced into a mold.