UK’s most Car Color Popularity show that black colour was the choice for drivers in 2022. According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, in excess of 500,000 black cars (20.3% of net sales) were sold last year.
White was the most famous color in 2019, however, has plunged to third place with 19% of sales, with grey in second.
The fastest growing color of 2022 was gold, with requests up 19.1%, despite the fact that it remained a specialty decision with only 0.2% of the market.
And while the top three most popular colors have shuffled about their order- in 2020 the running request went white, black, and grey – a few colors experienced more emotional changes of fortune. Bronze, for example, was put in an unexpected appearance as the ninth most popular color in 2022, in spite of not highlighting anywhere in the 2021 top 10 charts.
Favorite Car Colors
Colour | No. registrations | % market share | % change on 2021 |
Black | 515,970 | 20.3% | +0.2% |
Grey | 500,714 | 19.7% | +2.4% |
White | 482,099 | 19% | -1.5% |
Blue | 405,758 | 16% | +0.6% |
Silver | 254,192 | 10% | -0.1% |
Red | 251,104 | 9.9% | -1.4% |
Green | 26,834 | 1.1% | +0.03% |
Orange | 19,064 | 0.8% | +0.1% |
Bronze | 12,421 | 0.5% | +0.16% |
Yellow | 10,301 | 0.4% | -0.1% |
The reverse was true for brown in spite of being the shade of decision for more than 15,000 car buyers in 2016, brown is no place to be found in 2022’s top 10, and experienced a 33 percent fall in popularity.
And spare a thought, save an idea for poor old silver: once the doyen of colors (silver was the most well-known complete from 2000-2008), in 2022 it could only scrape fifth place, with 254,192 silver cars sold.
Grey experienced the greatest growth in the 2022 best 10 graphs because of a 2.4 for every percent rise in popularity. And keeping in mind that that expansion could not hope to compare to gold â which enjoyed a 19.1 percent positive swing – just 0.2 percent of cars (roughly 5,000) sold in 2022 was gold.
That contrasts sharply with black, grey, white, and blue; together, those four colors covered 75 percent of all new cars sold in 2022.