Grey Is Now The New Car Buyer's Favourite Colour
It’s official: grey is now the UK’s favourite new car colour. According to new figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), 495,127 grey cars were registered in 2018, giving it a whopping 20.9 per cent market share, an increase of 1.2 per cent compared to the year before. It’s the first time grey has topped the charts since records began.
While we’re rather fond of some grey colour options like Audi’s Nardo grey and its many battleship-like imitators, the figures make the country’s car buyers look rather conservative. 59 per cent of 2018’s new cars were either grey, black or white, while demand for yellow dropped by 34 per cent.
Orange enjoyed a 37 per cent increase in registrations, but it still accounts for a market share of just 1.1 per cent with 26,042 vehicles sold in total. Weirdly, another ‘winner’ was beige, with a 28 per cent jump giving the hue its first top 10 appearance since 2014.
At the very least, blue and red are still strong sellers - they’re the highest-placed primary colours at fourth and fifth respectively, with a market share of 26.1 per cent between them.
New car buyers of Britain, can you please be a little more adventurous this year?
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Mine are -Yellow, Bayside blue, Midnight purple
bleh, how boring
although some grey colours can look very good tho
Nardo grey is god tier
No grey is as gray as nardo gray
What I always ask myself is whether or not colours like the one of my Dad’s BMW count as “grey” or not. I guess it would be bronze, but there are better examples as well, which really are quite hard to categorize.
Cream imo
Look it up in the Fahrzeugschein field 11. Most cars with an individual colour are listed as grey, even silver ones are.
The colourname given by the carmanufacturer often differs from the one in the governmental car register
Warm Grey imo
I really want more bright colours, but pointless to say, as I’d never buy a new car.
i wonder why black white and silver cars become so pouplar
Resale I’d imagine
White doesn’t heat up in the sun, same for silver, black doesn’t get dirty
black are bought to make the car look more expensive, company/fleet cars are bought in white and silver just looks good
IMPACT BLUE
Basically primer is the latest trend
Good, grey looks good on all cars
why are grey and silver separate?
Isn’t silver just light grey?
Gray is the best color
Fight me