The RAC has revealed that silver is the most popular colour among the 30+ million cars on the UK’s roads.
New DVLA data requested by RAC Cars showed that 22.5 per cent of cars were silver at the end of the first quarter of 2016 – that’s 6.8 million of over 30.4 million licensed cars. There are 925,788 more silver cars on the road than its nearest rival – black.
Blue appears to have fallen out of favour with motorists as its share of cars in use has decreased from 21 per cent in 2013 to 18.6 per cent this year, putting it into third place behind black (19.4 per cent).
Fourth position in the car colour charts – some way behind on 12 per cent is grey, edging red into fifth on 11 per cent, with white on 9 per cent.
RAC Cars spokesman Pete Williams said: “In 2015 there were more than 7m silver cars registered, that’s 23.7% of all the cars on the road but this year the number has dropped by 3% to 6.8m. Blue has also lost ground, falling from 19.3% in 2015 to 18.7% this year. Even though both black and grey have become very slightly more popular the big car colour chart climbing success is white which has shot up to 9.3% of all registered cars by adding 1.3m since 2013.
“Some people can be very particular or superstitious about the colour of their cars, always having to have the same colour whereas others are clearly influenced more by fashion. White is very much the colour of the moment which is why it’s rising up the rankings, but it has a long way to go before it becomes as popular as silver, black and blue. It will be very interesting to see how long this trend in new cars lasts.”
Click on the image below for enlarged version: RAC Cars Colour Chart
