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Orange marmalade! Postie approves!So what colour 3 did you get Pat?![]()
Orange marmalade! Postie approves!So what colour 3 did you get Pat?![]()
Yeah, I like the brighter colours on the smaller carsOrange marmalade! Postie approves!
10 facts about the new car market in March - SMMT
- More than a fifth of cars registered in March 2016 were white, following the trend set in 2015, with neutral tones black and grey in second and third place.
- Not all Britons are quite so keen to follow the trend, with some 3,300 new cars specified in orange, 2,000 in yellow and more than 1,000 buyers choosing pink.
- White was the favourite paint in March for superminis and small family cars, with larger executive models and sports cars more likely to come in black.
To: Der Produktdevelopmentdirektor (Päinten), BASF, Ludwigshafen.Update: I've just been reading an article about the car paint development section of BASF and they expect green to be in in about three years, which is the time they take to develop a colour.
I note "green" is only 1% in that graphic and the only new green cars I have seen recently are turbo nutter Fords for people who think the orange ones are wimpy.
Apparently "green" has been seen as "deliberately environmentally-friendly" (e.g. for hybrids) recently but this is changing to "solid and dependable".
And not "turbo nutter".
Mud yes, but generally road dirt is disguised surprisingly well on white cars in my experience. Not quite as well as silver, mind.you notice the dirt on white cars,
We know that over the years the most popular new car colour choices have consistently been monochromatic, and that trend has continued in 2016.
According to our Best Price data, just over 75 per cent of respondents prefer white, grey, black and silver. That still means almost 25 per cent are willing to be a bit more adventurous, and there were a few surprises in the 2016 results.
Last year it was interesting to see 10 per cent of survey respondents would choose blue, with red not far behind at 9 per cent.
This trend flipped in 2016, with red officially the most popular colour and up 30 per cent on 2015. Blue is now trailing slightly behind, but still trending higher than the previous year.
Orange and yellow have gone from hot to not, both dropping significantly while green is so last year, down almost 60 per cent.
The colour brown is not always associated with a pleasant surprise, but in this case it is. Chocolate-inspired shades, though still only preferred by a small fraction of survey respondents, are up a massive 238 per cent.
There's an enormous "bare metal grey" Cayenne that parks on a corner of the road here.It's not so much you don't notice it as it has the road presence of a lamppost!Black and dark grey's look great in the showroom but as soon as you go 100 yards down the road they look filthy.