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
Shades of red to this purity–power tradeoff and their "red" may be less colorful and more orangish than the standard red of sRGB. This color is also the color called "red" in the X11 web colors, which were originally formulated in 1987. It is also called "color wheel red". It is at precisely zero (360) degrees on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel (). Its complementary color is cyan. "Pigment red" is the color red that is achieved by mixing process (printer's) magenta and process (printer's) yellow in equal proportions. This is the color red that is shown