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 model mixing with primary colors of red, green, and blue, each of which stimulates one of the three types of the eye's color receptors with as little stimulation as possible of the other two. This is called "RGB" color space. Mixtures of light of these primary colors cover a large part of the human color space and thus produce a large part of human color experiences. This is why color television sets or color computer monitors need only produce mixtures of red, green and blue light. See Additive color. Other primary colors could in principle be used, but with red, green