Silver Most Popular Used Car Colour

Tuesday, 18. August 2009

Now here’s a strange fact! When it comes to new cars the most popular colour constantly flips between black and silver with, strangely enough, white coming up on the inside rails. Who ever thought that white would ever make a return as one of the most popular colours for new cars, what next – chocolate brown or possibly beige? Anyway, for years the most popular colour for used cars has apparently been blue, replaced in the first quarter of this year, according to Manheim auctions, by silver. Now this is quite important when buying cars that you intend to own as buying a blue car will make it more saleable as a used car but where are they coming from? If the top selling new cars have been black and silver for years but the top selling used cars are blue has someone been busily re-spraying cars that they are buying in auction to satisfy the demand for blue used cars. I would suggest that if you are about to buy a used blue car check it very carefully, it may have started life as a chocolate brown. If any of my readers can answer this mathematical imbalance please let me know. By Graham Hill