82% of cars sold in 2010 are black, grey, silver or white.
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http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/07/worlds-most-pop...
So 82% of the cars sold in the world were black, white, silver or grey. This is where the joke colour charts come from for Audi/Merc/BMW grey colour charts.
OK, I have a silver car, but I would rather have it in a colour and the 2 other cars I've owned were red. This is just a bit depressing really.
Edited by ajprice on Wednesday 8th December 09:08
It's slightly depressing looking at the work car park - it's a sea of non-colours. I would never buy a silver/grey/black/white car unless it was massively cheaper than the alternative, although black and white are marginally better than silver. ETA: So 74% of cars sold in Europe aren't coloured. It's interesting that brown is third of the actual colours:
Edited by kambites on Wednesday 8th December 09:17
It is extremely boring yes, but to be honest for me it's entirely down to avoiding road rage. I've owned one red sports car and sorry, but never again. If I'm going to own a nice car then I want to offset the attention seeking element by having it an a very discrete colour. Since the red sports car that I owned all my cars have been dark blue, black, or silver, with one dark green one. Dull, but I feel safer and I absolutely hate confrontation.
kambites said:
It's slightly depressing looking at the work car park - it's a sea of non-colours. I would never buy a silver/grey/black/white car unless it was massively cheaper than the alternative, although black and white are marginally better than silver. ETA: So 74% of cars sold in Europe aren't coloured. It's interesting that brown is third of the actual colours:
Edited by kambites on Wednesday 8th December 09:17
The other day I was in slow moving traffic going past the big Merc dealer in Watford....and noticed that EVERY ONE of the dozen or more cars in the showroom was either black/grey/silver as was ALL the used stock on the forecourt and there must have been 20+ cars visable from the road.
I would put money on 82% of car sales in 2010 probably being lease or company cars, as in reality there is probably still not that many people spunking that sum of money on new cars... Most lease or company car colour choices are limited.
I had a Red Fiesta Zetec S company car... swapped company and now have a Grey car... to be fair the main company car brand BMW/Audi/Merc don't offer that many colours anyway.
I had a Red Fiesta Zetec S company car... swapped company and now have a Grey car... to be fair the main company car brand BMW/Audi/Merc don't offer that many colours anyway.
Edited by GSP on Wednesday 8th December 10:06
aeropilot said:
You only have to look in the showrooms of car dealers as you drive past to see this horrid phenomenom.....
The other day I was in slow moving traffic going past the big Merc dealer in Watford....and noticed that EVERY ONE of the dozen or more cars in the showroom was either black/grey/silver as was ALL the used stock on the forecourt and there must have been 20+ cars visable from the road.
You should have stopped for a visit - they have an SLS and are okay about you sitting in it. It is black though, so probably not worth the effort.The other day I was in slow moving traffic going past the big Merc dealer in Watford....and noticed that EVERY ONE of the dozen or more cars in the showroom was either black/grey/silver as was ALL the used stock on the forecourt and there must have been 20+ cars visable from the road.
I have two green cars and one black, which is going soon to be replaced by another black one. As others have said, company car colour choice is limited.
callahan said:
aeropilot said:
You only have to look in the showrooms of car dealers as you drive past to see this horrid phenomenom.....
The other day I was in slow moving traffic going past the big Merc dealer in Watford....and noticed that EVERY ONE of the dozen or more cars in the showroom was either black/grey/silver as was ALL the used stock on the forecourt and there must have been 20+ cars visable from the road.
You should have stopped for a visit - they have an SLS and are okay about you sitting in it. It is black though, so probably not worth the effort.The other day I was in slow moving traffic going past the big Merc dealer in Watford....and noticed that EVERY ONE of the dozen or more cars in the showroom was either black/grey/silver as was ALL the used stock on the forecourt and there must have been 20+ cars visable from the road.
It's depressing (says the man with a black and a silver car, as well as a blue one, who's just about to take delivery of another silver one), but mention the idea of trading in a car that is not silver, black, grey or white (five years ago white would not have been on this list) and the dealer will say something like, "I really like that blue myself, but it will be hard to sell, so it will affect the trade-in price."
I once talked to a dealer about ordering a new E39 M5 in Imola Red and the woman was close to forbidding me to do it.
I once talked to a dealer about ordering a new E39 M5 in Imola Red and the woman was close to forbidding me to do it.
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