Car colour popularity Car colour popularity The most popular car colours today are greyscale colours, with over 70% of cars produced globally being white, black, grey or silver. Red, blue and brown/beige cars range between 6% and 9% each, while all other colours amount to less than 5%. The results of colour popularity surveys conducted by American paint manufacturers PPG Industries (PPG) and DuPont (DP) are shown in the table and chart below. Note that the results for silver and grey may be affected by discrepancies in how the companies classify these colours. Silver is a popular colour for rental vehicles. Cars that
Color mixing about mixing colors. To explain the mechanism, let us consider mixing red paint with yellow paint. The red paint is red because when the ambient light strikes it, the composition of the material is such that it absorbs all other colors in the visible spectrum except for red. The red light, not being absorbed, reflects off the paint and is what we see. This same mechanism describes the color of all material objects -- note that light is not a material object -- and so applies to the yellow paint as well. Making recourse to the figure above demonstrating additive