How do I use Comparator to define a custom sort order?

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I recommend you create an enum for your car colours instead of using Strings and the natural ordering of the enum will be the order in which you declare the constants.

public enum PaintColors {
    SILVER, BLUE, MAGENTA, RED
}

and

 static class ColorComparator implements Comparator<CarSort>
 {
     public int compare(CarSort c1, CarSort c2)
     {
         return c1.getColor().compareTo(c2.getColor());
     }
 }

You change the String to PaintColor and then in main your car list becomes:

carList.add(new CarSort("Ford Figo",PaintColor.SILVER));

...

Collections.sort(carList, new ColorComparator());

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