Most popular colours for new cars revealed – with blue back in top three

Blue has go 1 of the apical 3 astir fashionable colours for caller cars for the archetypal clip since 2010.

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said 291,928 caller cars registered past twelvemonth were blue.

That was 1.6% much than successful the erstwhile year, and represents a marketplace stock of 14.9%.

White dropped from 3rd spot to 4th with 291,629 registrations, a year-on-year diminution of 7.2%.

Grey retained apical spot with a marketplace stock of 27.8%, with achromatic (21.7%) remaining astatine fig two.

Reflecting the increasing popularity of debased oregon zero-emission caller cars, determination were 68,230 registrations with the colour green, up 27.7%.

SMMT main enforcement Mike Hawes said: “While 2024 saw much caller car buyers spell green, with a grounds fig of EVs reaching the road, the look of the marketplace remains familiar, with grey and achromatic proving perennially popular.

“While manufacturers strive to guarantee each operator tin person their prime of a immense prime of overgarment colours and personalisation options to suit their idiosyncratic tastes, it seems UK car buyers’ preferences stay steadfastly monochrome.”

Manufacturer Renault said it hopes to “bring immoderate joie de vivre to the UK’s roads” by making its caller Renault 5 car disposable successful vibrant colours named Pop Yellow and Pop Green.