Britain’s favourite car colours

White is the UK’s most popular new car colour for the third year running – of the 2,635,518 new cars registered in 2015, 21.4% were white.

According to the figures released by The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), the preference for white across most of the UK was not mirrored in the South East where more black cars were registered than white.

Blue cars also enjoyed a resurgence in demand, with more than one in six people choosing the colour. Blue used to be the nation’s first choice of car colour in the late 1990s and, after a period of falling popularity, it has now seen three years of continued growth in demand.

Meanwhile, after eight years at the top between 2000 and 2008, silver continued its decline. It now makes up just over one in 10 new car registrations compared with its peak in 2004 when almost every third new car registered was silver.

Overall, neutral tones continued to dominate, with black cars in second place after white and followed by grey, taking 19.4% and 15.6% of the market respectively.

Top 10 car colours 2015

Figures courtesy of the SMMT