Sabrina Carpenter's deed opus ‘Espresso’ mightiness person an antithetic interaction connected the car manufacture successful 2025
- Michael Golson, Senior Motors Reporter
- Published: 19:17, 19 Jan 2025
- Updated: 19:17, 19 Jan 2025
A GROUP of car experts person fixed their apical predictions for motoring-related trends successful 2025 - including the emergence successful an antithetic car colour option.
Online utilized car marketplace Motorway has looked backmost astatine immoderate of the biggest moments of 2024 to assistance find their thoughts for the twelvemonth ahead.
From the power of societal media and sport, to manner and culture, they’ve looked astatine the astir anticipated colours, styles, and models that could predominate the roads.
One of their apical predictions is the popularity of compact cars, which they nexus to the emergence of TikTok ‘Dinks’ - Dual Income No Kids couples.
In 2025, British households are predicted to crook to smaller, much businesslike car models arsenic compact, cheaper cars reign ultimate among this user group.
Now making up 40% of UK families and resulting successful a caller demographic known for redeeming connected essentials and flaunting their luxury lifestyles connected societal media, Motorway expects the alleged matchbox car to reign supreme.
After DINKs spent large connected travel, spot and luxury experiences past year, Motorway saw an summation successful the fig of smaller models sold successful 2024 compared to the twelvemonth prior, including the Mazda 2 and Kia Picanto, with dealers stocking up connected cars that suit couples’ two-person needs.
And with a increasing fig of child-free homes this year, couples successful their DINK epoch volition marque their next car acquisition a tiny one, with probe revealing that 68% of Brits successful tiny households would similar a smaller, much businesslike exemplary to a ample car successful 2025.
But what colour volition these tiny motors be?
Motorway believes the power of Sabrina Carpenter mightiness beryllium a origin with her opus ‘Espresso’.
The bop already went immoderate mode to influencing the Pantone Colour of the Year, which was Mocha Mousse.
Likewise, coloured cars could beryllium expected to deed the roads successful 2025, aft past year’s Peach Fuzz resulted successful a 14% summation successful the merchantability of orangish cars connected the platform.
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Curiously, successful 2024, the Brat improvement and the frenzy for Wicked saw the Barbie-esque inclination overshadowed - with a 7% summation successful the mean selling terms of greenish cars, portion pink cars experienced a important diminution successful their mean selling price.
Motorway besides predicts that sports cars volition marque their mode to the apical of the podium this year, with BMW cars the astir often sold connected the level successful 2024.
But that's not to accidental the ever-dependable Fiat 500 won't beryllium acold behind, arsenic it reached the apical spot successful 10 used-car income successful 2024, outselling fancier cars similar the Audi A1.
What’s more, 64% of Brits are looking for a premix of relation and plan successful their upcoming acceptable of wheels, with a 14% summation successful the fig of caravans sold past twelvemonth connected the platform.