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
Carmine (color) Carmine (color) Carmine is the general term for some deep red colours that are "very slightly" purplish but are generally "slightly" closer to red than the colour crimson is. Some rubies are coloured the colour shown below as "rich carmine". The deep dark red color shown at right as "carmine" is the colour of the raw unprocessed pigment, but lighter, richer, or brighter colours are produced when the raw pigment is processed, some of which are shown below. The first recorded use of "carmine" as a color name in English was in 1523. The color wild watermelon is displayed at