Gray is the UK’s favorite new automobile color for fourth consecutive 12 months, adopted by black and white, to finish the monochrome set.
In response to new figures printed by the Society of Motor Producers and Merchants (SMMT), gray accounted for twenty-four.8% (up 2.8%) of recent automobile registrations in 2021 – a complete of 408,155 automobiles.
Black, the most well-liked automobile paint in Britain from 2009 to 2012, wrapped 20.5% of passenger automobiles, whereas white was in third place (17.2%), that means UK drivers had been almost certainly to decide on a monochrome automobile for the eleventh 12 months working.
White was the most well-liked shade for mini-sized and sports activities automobiles, whereas bigger twin goal, luxurious saloons and govt automobiles had been, as traditional, almost certainly to be black.
On the area of interest finish of the color palette, gold, yellow and turquoise had been the quickest rising colors, with gold greater than tripling its enchantment (up 231.8%), yellow up by a 3rd (31.3%) and turquoise up by a fifth (19.2%), though collectively they accounted for lower than one p.c of the market (0.9%).
