Don't ask me why because I don't think the cats color necessarily means much vs how they act (maybe it does?) but if we get another one I have wanted for it to be an orange one.... Up until the last 2 which have both been black we've had mostly a mix of grayish tiger striped ones over the years. One had "bullseye" markings/ dark and light gray.. we called him target.
Before monster and Gizmo our past cats all seem to have lasted 13-14 years. Monster died at 16 and that's what Gizmo is currently, and still going. All of them we have had have been fixed males except for one and our " tiger" who was our only female cat of the bunch was more withdrawn than any of the males