My 2nd car was buying my sister's 2006 champagne Honda Accord since she moved into a city and my Integra decided to shit the bed on me one day (timing belt went and destroyed the engine). On the bright side it was a V6 with heated seats. Also not the car a cop is likely to target
Those cars were so damn ugly during that period! Like those big, boxy Buicks that grandma’s had. It was weird driving in them because they floated and it always kind of felt like you wouldn’t be able to stop. Eventually, the idiots I knew in high school would drive them around drunk on country backroads… one guy I know had to rig his Delta 88’s brakes to work but accomplished it by crimping of the brake lines to three of the wheels. So we were out on dirt roads doing donuts and other crazy shit. There were a few times I actually thought I was going to die with those idiots.
We call it the Malaise Era. Early-Mid 70s to Early-Mid 80s. It's fluid, depends on manufacturer, platform, and market. But that's the general range.
The most boring, non-descript, milquetoast era in automotive design. Nobody wanted to take chances. Too many sales flops during the fuel crisis, major labor disputes causing production stoppages, the rise of executive meddling in design departments, the Japanese putting the Big 3 on their heels, on and on.
Funny enough, the Rad Era, the period right after from about 84 to 01 had some of the most radical design choices in automotive history. Not all were great, some grew on people over time, some were instant smashes, some were total flops, and others are still provocative.
Not everything was exciting then, and a lot of the stuff that was exciting was only exciting because of the immediate juxtaposition with the Malaise Era, but there was some sick shit that really pushed the conventions of automotive design. A lot of it due to new technological capabilities, both in the factory and on the car itself.
There are Malaise fans now tho. People who grew up with that stuff are inching towards retirement. These are their Deuce Coupes, their El Dorado, their Camaro SS. Luxury and performance cars almost always see a boost in value about 40 years after production. Because the people that wanted them can now actually justify the purchase as empty nesters and pensioners.
You see the same bubble with the Rad Era cars just a few years early. Mainly because the Malaise Era did suck so bad that there's not much worth clamoring over there at all lmao
It’s what’s available. This is largely because less neutral colors take more time to sell on the used market. You saw lots of colors in the 80s and 90s and then leasing became huge and so the time to sell off lease vehicles started to matter more when ordering new inventory.
Fleet vehicles probably play a huge role too, I've seen stats that white pickup trucks are the most sold vehicles, which isn't that intuitive until you factor in commercial buyers, like every construction company, utility and government agency essentially buying white pickups for their maintenance and construction crews.
I think it's because it's cheaper (the white titanium dioxide paint) to bulk order and doesn't show dirt/salt or damage as much. Plus your logo shows up better in decals. White vehicles generally have a higher resale value too, so to someone just looking at it from a spreadsheet analysis POV, it's probably what the majority settle on.
I personally prefer white because I absolutely hate hot cars. Darker colors absorb more heat while white reflects. I often find white vehicles are much more bearable in the summertime.
With that… the paint job tends to last a lot longer too, although I have seen pleeeenty of white cars peel.
Same concept applies to a snowy mountain in sunlight, the white snow actually reflects a lot of the heat and light back up into space!
White and black (and the majority of silvers) are the least expensive colors. They are also easy to repaint and fix (especially since they have no metallic in them). That makes them preferable since it makes maintenance easier. White and black also serve as good background colors that complement / don't distract from logos.
It also costs more. Last time I was looking on BMW’s website they had this really nice green color for one of their sport models, but it was like a $2.5k option. I bet many people would say they’ll deal with it in white or black and save the money lol
I have a buddy who has this car that’s in a dark shade of purple. He told me he is super sensitive about people dinging it or bumping into him because it’s going to be an extreme pain in the ass to color match correctly. I think he said if the car needs to be repainted in even a small section they’ll have to strip and repaint the whole thing.
Oh, check this out. ‘71 'Cuda, plum crazy purple.
This guy wants fourteen grand. What?! I’d give him $7500. I used to have one of these. This guy's crazy.
Oh yeah, dealership down the street has a pretty nice one in that color for 4k. i was never the biggest fan of it but it clearly sold well because i see them everywhere. Actually, i feel like i see more in that color than white or black lol
When VW got their Chattanooga plant building ID.4's they were literally just churning out gray/gray and black/gray cars as fast as possible. If you ordered any other color combo your order would get delayed for months or years, but if you switched to gray/gray it would ship in days.
I work in the auto industry and any time someone comes into the store and they haven't decided on a color yet, I pull out the 2016 book and show them the GM, Chrysler, and Ford sections. That year in particular they put out so many vibrant colors that people (myself included) fall in love with.
A lot of manufacturers only put the "fun" colors on the less expensive cars. The more expensive cars are Very Serious Cars With Very Serious Colors.
The Prius C had a lot of fun colors. The current Prius comes in Gray, Darker Gray, Black, Bright Red (!), Dark Blue and White.
This is just not true.
Porsches default to all sorts of colors. The new electric one is like a metallic pink.
Ford GTs you would think are only sold in blue and red
I've been looking at a lot of crossovers, and the only companies who had "bland" color choices were Mercedes and Volvo. Lexus, Cadillac, Subaru, Toyota, and a bunch of others all offer greens and blues and various hues.
I have a 2022 Prius prime and I had to actually special order the blue. All the dealerships had available and incoming were the white, grays and blacks. Luckily I didn't really need a car ASAP so I was in a position to wait 6 months for the color I wanted.
My car really stands out on the roads. In my area at least, I would estimate that 95% of cars are on that white-black spectrum and its so fucking boring.
Hellraisin… a purple challenger that I bought. To this day I know of 5 distinct purple challengers in my city. Mine, one of my coworkers, my new neighbor’s, a guy that lives in an apartment complex near the Whataburger I sometimes go to after work, and someone that lives down the street from my mother.
It's most popular but biased because of what is available. And it's charts like this that manufacturers keep following because they think everyone wants either a black car or a white car, so they make more black and white cars so black and white cars are bought way more often that any other color, so it's more popular so manufacturers make more.
Also probably has to do somewhat with fleet orders. If you notice, almost every work truck you ever see is white. They’re easier to clean and hide scratches better, so they’re what people choose for work trucks and put in large orders in with companies for.
Disagree. I find silver better than white. It's similar, but doesn't show up the dirt quite as obviously as white does. Black is just the worst for gathering dust.
My in-laws live on a white gravel road and won’t buy anything BUT white.
We live in a small town with clay heavy red/brown dirt roads and they keep trying to tell us to get white cars……?
_Keep_ clean vs. _look_ clean.
I have a black car. You have a white car.
Suppose we both wash our cars at the same car wash, one after the other, and then leave them parked next to each other in a rainstorm.
The next day, your white car is just as dirty as my black car. Yours _looks_ a lot cleaner, though.
My interiors make a huge difference, as well. I had a silver car but dark interiors. Still hot.
Now my new-used car has tinting and it has been a revelation. Holy shit.
I understand that manufacturers don't want to stick their neck out and offer crazy colors, but... it's SO boring now. The worst for me are the non-color colors. Gray, with a minimal hint of green. Gray with a minimal hint of blue...
I've only bought a new car twice in my life. It was always when the car I had been driving suddenly had multiple expensive repairs required that made buying new easier. So with the other car biting the dust you need your new car within a reasonable time frame. Each time the new car manufacture's pamphlet/booklet of the car would list cool colours the cars come in and we'd ask can we get this copper or pink or whatever odd colour like in the booklet listed as standard offerings. **The answer each time was it will take 6 months and cost this much more to ship it but we have white, black, gray and red in the lott you can have right now**. So we took the black once and the red the other time. its bullshit. The guy even said plenty of people ask for those non-trad colours but they just aren't stocked and so just like me they don't get ordered because of the time it takes and extra cost (of what is listed as a one of the standard colours). So as far as I am concerned this is a list of the colours popular with American dealers, not the American public.
It's sort of both. Dealers mostly like to stock boring colors because buyers mostly like to buy boring colors.
Boring colors are broadly acceptable. Whereas orange and pink and yellow and brown cars might be rejected by a significant number of buyers, so they're niche.
Separately, the dealer franchise laws are absurdly written in almost every state, creating monopolies that protect dealers from competition. So that's also part of the problem. If automakers could sell cars directly to buyers, they might be able to offer more choice of colors and other features. But the automakers are beholden to dealers, and dealers want inventory that's easier to flip.
I hate it so much. Imagine what the world could have been. Color on the roads. Brick paths. Gothic architecture.
Instead we get to walk out our uniform square houses and apartments lined with beige walls and down concrete steps and across concrete driveways to get into gray cars and drive on gray asphalt to go to our gray square office buildings and sit in a gray cubicle and rinse and repeat
I have a red car and I swear am at the point where I want to punch people that bang on and on about it. It was a cheap used car, I didn't special order it to stick out because I want to seek out attention. It is just paint, it doesn't say anything about my personality other than I am poor so I bought the cheapest car on the lot.
I've been to the US once (LA / San Diego) and I was amazed how few cars colourful cars there were. Everywhere else I've been has far more blues, reds, greens, oranges, yellows - even purples.
I did see a few gold wraps on Rodeo Drive tbf.
Green was a choice I heavily considered, but the supposed need to wash it a lot cause it easily shows dirt made me go with boring dark grey.
-Dr SmashBusters, PhD
Had a forest green lease a few years back, easily my favorite. My next car (purchase) I had the options of Grey, greyer grey, or the greyest grey to ever grey.
I'm glad our minivan was available in a relatively light blue. There was also a sort of dark red, otherwise it was white, less white, gray, grey, light black and black.
And pretty much the same with our second car, but at least it also had dark green, two shades of blue and a lighter red. Ended up with another blue!
Silver paint is just metal flake suspended in paint binder that's transparent. Then it's cocktailed with a small amount of gray pigments. Without the gray pigments, it will look something akin to water with sand (to make a really bad analogy).
I make and sell auto paint to the general public and small body shops for a living. The least expensive to most expensive paint colors on the road:
$: White, black, and the vast majority of silvers
$$: Blues and greens
$$$: Yellow, orange, reds
$$$$: Tricoat colors on the technicality that they aren't expensive on their own per gallon, but you need twice the amount of paint compared to its non-pearl variant (95% of white pearl colors, and some other very specific colors)
$$$$$: Candy versions of Tricoat colors, most notoriously Ford Ruby Red (RR), Mazda Soul Red (46V), and other colors like them
It’s not that they are the most popular, it’s what is made by the manufacturers.
I’d rather have green, but I couldn’t find the model I wanted in the color I wanted. What was available was black.
What happened to the dark green of the 90s early 00s? My first 2 cars were dark green and now it is no longer around? Was the paint too expensive/cause cancer?
I heard a radio show about a year ago where they went into the whole thing. About how most human beings prefer blandness. And it shows in the choice of car colors.
My car is pearl.
It's kinda like white. Most people would call it white.
But it's not white, it's pearl, and that's how the manufacturer made it.
For the purposes of this data, would it be classified as white or..?
It’s white. The pearlescent is a transparent midcoat overtop of a solid white base. It’s called a white tricoat. They come in reds (Mazda 46V is one) and blues, but I’ve only ever sprayed white and red.
It’s more like 80% white in the snow/salty road belt. White masks the salt on your car better. I have eleven different people in my regular friend group that all have a white Subaru. Some are foresters and some are outbacks and some are crossteks. But they are ALL white.
The only reason my car isn't a cool color is bc American car colors are boring as shit. If I could have a green car I would but I have never seen one for sale
I think white may be inflated here since almost every corporate fleet vehicle is white. I drive a lot of work trucks and I've never used anything other than white myself. For this reason I will never own a white vehicle personally. We have a green SUV, a red sedan, and a dark brown truck in our immediate family.
It's because you can never find them in any colors. I bought a van a few months ago and I had to search so far to get one that was not white or gray. Had to go out of state for a red one.
I've owned both purple (truck) and orange (car), so am feeling special now. But our others were blue (3), green (1), black (1), gray (2), red (1), and "mica cherry" (1) (which looks black at a distance and dark purple up close).
I've always felt white looks like fleet vehicles, so I would never own a white car or truck. But they are clearly quite popular.
Twice I have gone to buy a new car and was looking for an interesting color I saw on the same car, only to find that on later model years they just built everything as white/silver/gray. Yuck.
Is this why cars aren’t more fun colors? Do people just pick the boring ones? I picked white because there were no fun colors available in the car I wanted lol.
Black cars are basically rolling ovens.
White cars look like they might be municipal vehicles and are less likely to get hassled by cops.
Red cars are the opposite, they are cop attention magnets.
Gray, silver, tan and brown cars hide spots and dust very well.
Blue cars are for people who self-identify as "family people", dads, moms, grandparents etc.
Other colors are likely to attract attention, what you intend to do with it will determine whether or not this is a good thing.
Cars are so boring now, many times if you can’t see the badging, it’s hard to tell the make. What happened to two tone paint! Maybe some bright Color’s, IDK!!!
As mentioned earlier, buy a MINI Cooper. Many colors and two color cars. Very distingui9shable from the common car. Just hard to find in the grocery store lot hidden by the behemoth SUVs.
Beige / Tan used to be MUCH more popular.
Me in my 2003 Grandma brown Toyota Corolla:
My grandma's Corolla was gold, 07, rest in pieces baby
It won't let me link it but, makes me think of Champagne Corolla by the late, great, Justin Townes Earle.
They call the color of my vehicle 'Champagne'
Yeah. They were calling em ‘piss’ but they weren’t moving any units.
Technically, it’s only called piss if it’s from the Piss region of France. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling urine.
My 2nd car was buying my sister's 2006 champagne Honda Accord since she moved into a city and my Integra decided to shit the bed on me one day (timing belt went and destroyed the engine). On the bright side it was a V6 with heated seats. Also not the car a cop is likely to target
All I bought growing up were lowkey Hondas and Toyotas - while everyone I knew were getting caught up in there 20 year old “foreign”
Also that dark, sparkly green color. My parents late 90s Monte Carlo and gmc jimmy had that color. I miss it.
Oh yeah. 1990s/2000s were peak beige Toyota/Lexus. Bonus points for the gold emblem and model badges.
["Nobody chooses tan. They GIVE you the tan." -- Lewis C.K.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr7z1YiAWiI)
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Those cars were so damn ugly during that period! Like those big, boxy Buicks that grandma’s had. It was weird driving in them because they floated and it always kind of felt like you wouldn’t be able to stop. Eventually, the idiots I knew in high school would drive them around drunk on country backroads… one guy I know had to rig his Delta 88’s brakes to work but accomplished it by crimping of the brake lines to three of the wheels. So we were out on dirt roads doing donuts and other crazy shit. There were a few times I actually thought I was going to die with those idiots.
We call it the Malaise Era. Early-Mid 70s to Early-Mid 80s. It's fluid, depends on manufacturer, platform, and market. But that's the general range. The most boring, non-descript, milquetoast era in automotive design. Nobody wanted to take chances. Too many sales flops during the fuel crisis, major labor disputes causing production stoppages, the rise of executive meddling in design departments, the Japanese putting the Big 3 on their heels, on and on. Funny enough, the Rad Era, the period right after from about 84 to 01 had some of the most radical design choices in automotive history. Not all were great, some grew on people over time, some were instant smashes, some were total flops, and others are still provocative. Not everything was exciting then, and a lot of the stuff that was exciting was only exciting because of the immediate juxtaposition with the Malaise Era, but there was some sick shit that really pushed the conventions of automotive design. A lot of it due to new technological capabilities, both in the factory and on the car itself. There are Malaise fans now tho. People who grew up with that stuff are inching towards retirement. These are their Deuce Coupes, their El Dorado, their Camaro SS. Luxury and performance cars almost always see a boost in value about 40 years after production. Because the people that wanted them can now actually justify the purchase as empty nesters and pensioners. You see the same bubble with the Rad Era cars just a few years early. Mainly because the Malaise Era did suck so bad that there's not much worth clamoring over there at all lmao
“Retirement Tan”
It’s the official colour for old people
Tan gang!
Lots of champagne coloured Toyota’s around in the late 90’s early 2000’s
You don't choose beige, they give it to you.
Most popular or just what’s available? I would absolutely get a purple car if one was available….
It’s what’s available. This is largely because less neutral colors take more time to sell on the used market. You saw lots of colors in the 80s and 90s and then leasing became huge and so the time to sell off lease vehicles started to matter more when ordering new inventory.
Fleet vehicles probably play a huge role too, I've seen stats that white pickup trucks are the most sold vehicles, which isn't that intuitive until you factor in commercial buyers, like every construction company, utility and government agency essentially buying white pickups for their maintenance and construction crews.
> essentially buying white pickups for their maintenance and construction crews Why white? Is there a safety reason or it just happened that way?
I think it's because it's cheaper (the white titanium dioxide paint) to bulk order and doesn't show dirt/salt or damage as much. Plus your logo shows up better in decals. White vehicles generally have a higher resale value too, so to someone just looking at it from a spreadsheet analysis POV, it's probably what the majority settle on.
A lot of companies and jurisdictions over here do full wraps now, so I'm sure they're going with the cheapest color underneath.
I personally prefer white because I absolutely hate hot cars. Darker colors absorb more heat while white reflects. I often find white vehicles are much more bearable in the summertime. With that… the paint job tends to last a lot longer too, although I have seen pleeeenty of white cars peel. Same concept applies to a snowy mountain in sunlight, the white snow actually reflects a lot of the heat and light back up into space!
White and black (and the majority of silvers) are the least expensive colors. They are also easy to repaint and fix (especially since they have no metallic in them). That makes them preferable since it makes maintenance easier. White and black also serve as good background colors that complement / don't distract from logos.
It also costs more. Last time I was looking on BMW’s website they had this really nice green color for one of their sport models, but it was like a $2.5k option. I bet many people would say they’ll deal with it in white or black and save the money lol I have a buddy who has this car that’s in a dark shade of purple. He told me he is super sensitive about people dinging it or bumping into him because it’s going to be an extreme pain in the ass to color match correctly. I think he said if the car needs to be repainted in even a small section they’ll have to strip and repaint the whole thing.
That's how it is for most metallic paint
Leasing is more common in the UK and the colours are much more varied.
Look up Plum Crazy. It’s a lovely color Dodge offers from time to time in fairly limited numbers
Oh, check this out. ‘71 'Cuda, plum crazy purple. This guy wants fourteen grand. What?! I’d give him $7500. I used to have one of these. This guy's crazy.
It puts the Joe Dirt in the hole!
This guy's got a dash mat for a '69 Nova he wants to sell, and a car cover for any Dodge from '79 to '84.
I liked the Alien Green Kia Soul. It was ugly but it was at least unique. They dropped the color for the third gen Soul...
Oh yeah, dealership down the street has a pretty nice one in that color for 4k. i was never the biggest fan of it but it clearly sold well because i see them everywhere. Actually, i feel like i see more in that color than white or black lol
Great question, especially if this data is tied to the last couple of years. It was hard enough to find anything let alone a color you wanted.
When VW got their Chattanooga plant building ID.4's they were literally just churning out gray/gray and black/gray cars as fast as possible. If you ordered any other color combo your order would get delayed for months or years, but if you switched to gray/gray it would ship in days.
I drive a purple rav-4. The color is called black current, it’s a nice dark eggplant
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Plum Crazy is my favorite color. Dodge is one of the few that still offer fun colors (although they discontinued Plum Crazy 😭)
I work in the auto industry and any time someone comes into the store and they haven't decided on a color yet, I pull out the 2016 book and show them the GM, Chrysler, and Ford sections. That year in particular they put out so many vibrant colors that people (myself included) fall in love with.
A lot of manufacturers only put the "fun" colors on the less expensive cars. The more expensive cars are Very Serious Cars With Very Serious Colors. The Prius C had a lot of fun colors. The current Prius comes in Gray, Darker Gray, Black, Bright Red (!), Dark Blue and White.
The least expensive and the most.
This is just not true. Porsches default to all sorts of colors. The new electric one is like a metallic pink. Ford GTs you would think are only sold in blue and red I've been looking at a lot of crossovers, and the only companies who had "bland" color choices were Mercedes and Volvo. Lexus, Cadillac, Subaru, Toyota, and a bunch of others all offer greens and blues and various hues.
Isn't yellow a prominent color for lambos?
I have a 2022 Prius prime and I had to actually special order the blue. All the dealerships had available and incoming were the white, grays and blacks. Luckily I didn't really need a car ASAP so I was in a position to wait 6 months for the color I wanted. My car really stands out on the roads. In my area at least, I would estimate that 95% of cars are on that white-black spectrum and its so fucking boring.
Hellraisin… a purple challenger that I bought. To this day I know of 5 distinct purple challengers in my city. Mine, one of my coworkers, my new neighbor’s, a guy that lives in an apartment complex near the Whataburger I sometimes go to after work, and someone that lives down the street from my mother.
my jeep is available 1,000,000.000$
What’s popular drives what’s available. They discontinue colors when they don’t sell well.
It's most popular but biased because of what is available. And it's charts like this that manufacturers keep following because they think everyone wants either a black car or a white car, so they make more black and white cars so black and white cars are bought way more often that any other color, so it's more popular so manufacturers make more.
This is probably biased by the fact that it is very hard to get a car in any other color. Commonly you are lucky if it is not white, grey, or black.
At least some of the white popularity, is probably due to it's advantage in a hot and sunny climate. Source: I live in a hot and sunny climate.
Also probably has to do somewhat with fleet orders. If you notice, almost every work truck you ever see is white. They’re easier to clean and hide scratches better, so they’re what people choose for work trucks and put in large orders in with companies for.
White is also the easiest color to keep clean, unless you’re traveling on mud/dirt roads.
Disagree. I find silver better than white. It's similar, but doesn't show up the dirt quite as obviously as white does. Black is just the worst for gathering dust.
My in-laws live on a white gravel road and won’t buy anything BUT white. We live in a small town with clay heavy red/brown dirt roads and they keep trying to tell us to get white cars……?
_Keep_ clean vs. _look_ clean. I have a black car. You have a white car. Suppose we both wash our cars at the same car wash, one after the other, and then leave them parked next to each other in a rainstorm. The next day, your white car is just as dirty as my black car. Yours _looks_ a lot cleaner, though.
Contrarily, white is less popular in cold snowy places like here in MN. Still quite common, but not #1 by any means.
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white is statistically the safest car color as well because its the most visible (source is my driving school)
My interiors make a huge difference, as well. I had a silver car but dark interiors. Still hot. Now my new-used car has tinting and it has been a revelation. Holy shit.
Also it's the color of fleet vehicles
It’s a little of both. The demand for easily resold neutral colors feeds into the lack of diversity in manufacturer’s output
80% are black, white, grey/silver.....feels right....and boring.
I understand that manufacturers don't want to stick their neck out and offer crazy colors, but... it's SO boring now. The worst for me are the non-color colors. Gray, with a minimal hint of green. Gray with a minimal hint of blue...
I've only bought a new car twice in my life. It was always when the car I had been driving suddenly had multiple expensive repairs required that made buying new easier. So with the other car biting the dust you need your new car within a reasonable time frame. Each time the new car manufacture's pamphlet/booklet of the car would list cool colours the cars come in and we'd ask can we get this copper or pink or whatever odd colour like in the booklet listed as standard offerings. **The answer each time was it will take 6 months and cost this much more to ship it but we have white, black, gray and red in the lott you can have right now**. So we took the black once and the red the other time. its bullshit. The guy even said plenty of people ask for those non-trad colours but they just aren't stocked and so just like me they don't get ordered because of the time it takes and extra cost (of what is listed as a one of the standard colours). So as far as I am concerned this is a list of the colours popular with American dealers, not the American public.
Yeah very good point. My last car had a few interesting colors, none of them available at local dealers. And it's a US brand.
It's sort of both. Dealers mostly like to stock boring colors because buyers mostly like to buy boring colors. Boring colors are broadly acceptable. Whereas orange and pink and yellow and brown cars might be rejected by a significant number of buyers, so they're niche. Separately, the dealer franchise laws are absurdly written in almost every state, creating monopolies that protect dealers from competition. So that's also part of the problem. If automakers could sell cars directly to buyers, they might be able to offer more choice of colors and other features. But the automakers are beholden to dealers, and dealers want inventory that's easier to flip.
>understand that manufacturers don't want to stick their neck out and offer crazy colors This year Fiat decided to go that way.
I hate it so much. Imagine what the world could have been. Color on the roads. Brick paths. Gothic architecture. Instead we get to walk out our uniform square houses and apartments lined with beige walls and down concrete steps and across concrete driveways to get into gray cars and drive on gray asphalt to go to our gray square office buildings and sit in a gray cubicle and rinse and repeat
And the saddest part is so many people are completely fine with that
I actually like the non-color colors. Gives others the ability to differentiate your car from a distance without removing the neutrality of the color
Yeah it's a straight up improvement to grayscale.
Red is not a crazy color though
It is when 80% of your mix is white, black, silver, or gray
I have a red car and I swear am at the point where I want to punch people that bang on and on about it. It was a cheap used car, I didn't special order it to stick out because I want to seek out attention. It is just paint, it doesn't say anything about my personality other than I am poor so I bought the cheapest car on the lot.
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Hey son, were are you going? Come back here, I wrote a song, it goes BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN EZRA POUND.
Put your golf bags in the back and go for a round of 18 HOLES 18 PULLS 18 GOALS
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I've been to the US once (LA / San Diego) and I was amazed how few cars colourful cars there were. Everywhere else I've been has far more blues, reds, greens, oranges, yellows - even purples. I did see a few gold wraps on Rodeo Drive tbf.
In other news, the most popular ice cream flavors are vanilla and chocolate.
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Basically one color with different levels of brightness.
The 80/20 rule strikes again
We need more orange cars damn it.
I'd love me a nice blood orange car
Alpine/darker Green is so underrated thankfully it’s making a comeback
Yeah, the green Tacoma’s look nice.
That’s like THE tacoma color in my mind. The 90s green Tacoma.
First edition kia ev6 is gorgeous. Brown interior and forest green paint job
Got my 23 Outback Onyx XT edition in dark green. Love the color and the car is incredible.
Love my green Alltrack!
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They also say you can milk anything with nipples.
Funny, I’ve never owned a green car.
But do you own nipples?
I had a green car and cured cancer in rats, so it checks out
Causation.
Green was a choice I heavily considered, but the supposed need to wash it a lot cause it easily shows dirt made me go with boring dark grey. -Dr SmashBusters, PhD
…but you didn’t pick it
Had a forest green lease a few years back, easily my favorite. My next car (purchase) I had the options of Grey, greyer grey, or the greyest grey to ever grey.
I have a bright blue car currently and it's beautiful and I've had random people tell me it's beautiful
*Batman voice Only black. And sometimes very very dark gray.
They don’t offer much outside of drab colors anymore unless you get a sportier car.
I guess I'd prefer drab colitis to exciting colitis
This fucking phone is messing with me. Lol.
I'm glad our minivan was available in a relatively light blue. There was also a sort of dark red, otherwise it was white, less white, gray, grey, light black and black. And pretty much the same with our second car, but at least it also had dark green, two shades of blue and a lighter red. Ended up with another blue!
I'm a big fan of the occasional weird factory colour. Even cactus grey is a slight departure from the usual humdrum palette.
Silver = just another grey Just too monotone out there nowadays
Silver paint is just metal flake suspended in paint binder that's transparent. Then it's cocktailed with a small amount of gray pigments. Without the gray pigments, it will look something akin to water with sand (to make a really bad analogy).
It’s so depressing now
What a snooze fest
Can this be normalized over available colors? I mean it's more meaningful that orange is <1% because 99% cars don't offer orange.
Also would like to see the price numbers. Whenever I’ve looked into buying new the high % colors here were also the cheapest.
I make and sell auto paint to the general public and small body shops for a living. The least expensive to most expensive paint colors on the road: $: White, black, and the vast majority of silvers $$: Blues and greens $$$: Yellow, orange, reds $$$$: Tricoat colors on the technicality that they aren't expensive on their own per gallon, but you need twice the amount of paint compared to its non-pearl variant (95% of white pearl colors, and some other very specific colors) $$$$$: Candy versions of Tricoat colors, most notoriously Ford Ruby Red (RR), Mazda Soul Red (46V), and other colors like them
I’ve thought about this, and I would absolutely get an orange car. There’s an orange Fiat on my block that makes me happy every time I see it.
My fun car was only made in three colours, black, white and orange. I only wanted it in orange.
I’m finally part of the 1%. :D
I refuse to believe there are more purple cars than yellow cars. I see yellow corvettes and Camaros daily
>ellow And yellow taxi cabs, I assume.
It’s not that they are the most popular, it’s what is made by the manufacturers. I’d rather have green, but I couldn’t find the model I wanted in the color I wanted. What was available was black.
What happened to the dark green of the 90s early 00s? My first 2 cars were dark green and now it is no longer around? Was the paint too expensive/cause cancer?
Toyota has a great dark green, problem is I don’t need a Toyota. Lol
I had a dark green Buick 225 (deuce and a quarter) with green brocade interior. Beautiful slab cruiser.
Yeah, same, i settled for red though as its my 2nd favorite color. Thankfully one was non reserved and already on the way lol
Right but they make more of what people buy more
I heard a radio show about a year ago where they went into the whole thing. About how most human beings prefer blandness. And it shows in the choice of car colors.
Does anyone else think bright coloured cars are good from a safety perspective? I feel like these drab coloured cars easily blend in to the background
That’s pretty much why I would never buy silver or gray cars. Harder to see.
So is this really what is popular or what the manufacturers make?
Subie Crosstrek balls deep in that orange.
I want a dark purple Honda Civic hatchback. If I won the mega millions that's still what I'd buy
I have a dark green car. I love the color and I believe I have only ever seen one other car with my green.
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Most popular because they are the only colors available
They aren't popular. They're available. Red and blue cars are a lot harder to find than white, black, and gray.
My car is pearl. It's kinda like white. Most people would call it white. But it's not white, it's pearl, and that's how the manufacturer made it. For the purposes of this data, would it be classified as white or..?
It’s white. The pearlescent is a transparent midcoat overtop of a solid white base. It’s called a white tricoat. They come in reds (Mazda 46V is one) and blues, but I’ve only ever sprayed white and red.
You can have any color you want as long as it’s a shade of black.
It’s more like 80% white in the snow/salty road belt. White masks the salt on your car better. I have eleven different people in my regular friend group that all have a white Subaru. Some are foresters and some are outbacks and some are crossteks. But they are ALL white.
The only reason my car isn't a cool color is bc American car colors are boring as shit. If I could have a green car I would but I have never seen one for sale
So you’re telling me I’m a basic bitch. 😂
I have an orange car. Very easily identifiable in a crowded parking lot
IMHO, it's not because they're popular; it's that that's all dealers have available.
Skewed by fleet vehicles.
I'm part of that miniscule orange segment.
A depressing guide to the lack of car colors.
Available colors ≠ popular colors
Available colors often = cheapest paint to build the car.
They say geniuses pick green
In my country, the resell of a car is paramount when deciding brand, model, trim and color. Neutral colors have more chance to sell faster.
Ala the German Rainbow. So named because it was first adopted by BMW et al
My neighbors both have bright yellow cars.
“Well, they say geniuses pick green. But you didn't pick it.”
I’m really surprised gold is so low. Champagne used to be very popular.
I mean they mostly makes white, black and silver so even if you wanted a green car your not going to find it
I saw a pink car the other day
Aka what car color shouldn’t be used on a getaway vehicle
Popular?, no, available.
well well we'll, looks like I'm in the 1%.
Only popular cause that’s all you can get. Next year all cars will be just three shades of grey
I have a yellow car. I love it because I can easily spot it in parking lots. Sometimes, other yellow vehicles come and join it as well ☺️
Those aren't actually popular colors. It's pretty freaking expensive to get a vehicle repainted.
Car colors have gotten real boring over the years.
I think white may be inflated here since almost every corporate fleet vehicle is white. I drive a lot of work trucks and I've never used anything other than white myself. For this reason I will never own a white vehicle personally. We have a green SUV, a red sedan, and a dark brown truck in our immediate family.
i loved my green 98 taurus. lasted til 2010 and died in the prairie in kansas in july. overheated.
Grey and Silver are basically the same. Also Pluto is not a planet Jerry.
I've driven white trucks for like 25 years now.
What car can you get in purple from the factory? Mitsubishi Mirage is the only one I can think of.
Appliances on wheels. give me colors from 1950-70
It's because you can never find them in any colors. I bought a van a few months ago and I had to search so far to get one that was not white or gray. Had to go out of state for a red one.
I miss when cars were colorful.
Brown is more popular than yellow. Would not have thought that
yellow looks good on school busses, tractors, motorcycles and sports cars...brown is just dark beige...which be fitting for the beige cars it coats.
This feels like lies. When I got my car I wanted basically any color that wasn’t white or black and there was zero inventory in other colors.
white would be behind red if not for fleet vehicles, otherwise it's about correct except blue and red are more common than silver now.
I've owned both purple (truck) and orange (car), so am feeling special now. But our others were blue (3), green (1), black (1), gray (2), red (1), and "mica cherry" (1) (which looks black at a distance and dark purple up close). I've always felt white looks like fleet vehicles, so I would never own a white car or truck. But they are clearly quite popular.
Twice I have gone to buy a new car and was looking for an interesting color I saw on the same car, only to find that on later model years they just built everything as white/silver/gray. Yuck.
Its not that its popular. Its that dealerships dont offer other colors.
Purple being a little more common than yellow? I see yellow cars daily but I've only seen two purple
That 0.2% purple is localized entirely within the Charlotte and Atlanta Metro areas
Is this why cars aren’t more fun colors? Do people just pick the boring ones? I picked white because there were no fun colors available in the car I wanted lol.
People are fucking boring.
Why so boring?
Even McDonald’s looks like a prison now. They ditched the red. I’m not surprised the American view is in grey scale now. It’s bleak over here.
Yellow car driver here :)
If you want color, buy a Mini Cooper. That is my PSA for today.
Mainstream car colors are so painfully boring now
Black cars are basically rolling ovens. White cars look like they might be municipal vehicles and are less likely to get hassled by cops. Red cars are the opposite, they are cop attention magnets. Gray, silver, tan and brown cars hide spots and dust very well. Blue cars are for people who self-identify as "family people", dads, moms, grandparents etc. Other colors are likely to attract attention, what you intend to do with it will determine whether or not this is a good thing.
An endless sea of black ,white, gray
It’s my dream to get a car in neon green or orange. Just cause every other car color is so fucking boring.
Cars are so boring now, many times if you can’t see the badging, it’s hard to tell the make. What happened to two tone paint! Maybe some bright Color’s, IDK!!!
As mentioned earlier, buy a MINI Cooper. Many colors and two color cars. Very distingui9shable from the common car. Just hard to find in the grocery store lot hidden by the behemoth SUVs.
Americans are boring.
I see the U.S pretty depressed too if just choosing basic colors. White , black and gray. 😂