The SMMT data also highlighted Britain's least popular new car colours. These include maroon, pink, and cream – which recorded less than 1% of all registrations last year.
The study examined over 6.1 million cars on the road to determine the share for each color. White is the nation's most popular color, making up over a quarter of cars, followed by black, gray, and silver. Grayscale colored cars (white, black, gray, and silver) account for 78.5 percent of all vehicles on the road.
Popular colors like Black, White and Silver depreciate at a rate close to average. If resale value is important to you, you'll probably want to steer clear of gold and brown, colors that depreciate far worse than average.
Neutral colors like white, black, silver, and gray are consistently associated with luxury and elite social status. They are elegant and often considered “classy,” at least compared to “loud” car colors like yellow and red.
For the car market in general, the above-average colors for resale value are yellow, beige, orange, green, red, white and blue. These could be good choices if resale value is a top concern.
Darker car paint colors, such as black and navy blue, absorb more heat than lighter colors like white and silver. This is due to light reflecting off of the car's surface. The darker the color, the less light that is reflected resulting in more heat absorption.
Among the top 25 brands in the United States, Buick ranked highest in 2022 of women's share of brand, at 55.0% of personal new vehicle registrations, followed by Mitsubishi, Mini, Lexus, Infiniti, Mazda, and Kia.
Which is the most expensive and rarest car in the world? The most rarest car in the world is the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé. Only two of these cars were ever built, and one of them was sold at auction in 2022 for $142.9 million (AED 524,884,561). This makes it the most expensive car ever sold.
So why does red fade more than other paints? It's because wavelengths associated with red are the lowest energy of visible light, so to appear red it's absorbing much more energetic wavelengths, which causes more aggressive degradation of the paint's molecular bonds. This is in addition to what UV rays are doing.
“This makes white, black and silver appear to be in high demand, yet our analysis confirms that more obscure colors tend to hold their value better than common and popular colors.” Overall, yellow is the vehicle color that holds its value best, depreciating 45.6 percent less than the average vehicle.
On top of making your car look good, white is also an inoffensive colour that has broad appeal – especially with used car buyers. Therefore, if you want to maximise the value of your car when you decide to sell it or trade it in, it may be worth picking white over a more outlandish and vibrant shade.
Black absorbs all visible parts of the spectrum, turning that light energy into heat. The more energy it absorbs, the more heat it emits. White and silver, however, behave in the opposite manner, reflecting all light thrown their way. The result here is less energy absorption and less heat emission.
While light colours are often the least forgiving when it comes to small framework fractures, white cars are so light that they actually hide their dents quite effectively. In fact, white cars are so bright that they do not show scratches very well, especially in broad daylight.
Silver: Like gray, silver hides dust and dirt longer. They also tend to hide mud buildup near the rocker panels of cars. White: Also in the easy-to-care-for group is white. But this color shows mud and splashes easier than gray and silver.
But according to Kelley Blue Book, silver remains the color of choice for luxury vehicles. A full third of all luxury vehicles are silver; another 30 percent of them are diamond, crystal, snow, powder, cream, or some other version of white.
Silver, in particular, maintains an appealing shine, but gray can also look timeless and beautiful on the right model of vehicle. Both colors are sure to help with the car's resale value, whether the buyer is interested in everyday driving or luxury.
Below are interesting facts on how men and women go about purchasing a vehicle: Women buy more cars than men. According to Edmunds, 62% of all cars are purchased by women. Women take considerably longer to purchase a vehicle than men.
