Yawn! Grey triumphs again as UK’s most popular car colour

In news that will shock precisely no-one, the UK has crowned grey as its favourite car colour for the seventh year running, data from the SMMT has shown.

Grey came out on top with 543,464 vehicles – more than a quarter of all registrations in 2024 – beating black into a distant second place with 423,397.

Meanwhile blue narrowly wrestled third place off white in, um, an engrossing battle that finished with 291,928 vehicles to 291,629… yes, we’re trying to inject drama into this. What of it?

Red rounded out the top five, while silver and green finished sixth and seventh. Yellow, orange and bronze completed the top 10, albeit accounting for just 1.5 per cent of all new vehicles between them.

And in last place? That’d be pink, which was applied to just 145 cars last year. No wonder Jaguar chose it for the Type 00 concept.

Anyway… why are we so hooked on monochrome colours? Is it simply that we don’t want to pay the extra for non-standard paint? Or, as a nation do we collectively think ‘Yep, that’ll hide grime nicely’ when we get to that part of the configurator?

Answers on a postcard please. Or in the comments section. Yeah, the second one. Plus some ideas to make our roads more uplifting and interesting…