What was the last popular color before everybody starting buying white?

[Howard]

Certainly wasn't black.

 

[Costas Athan]

Certainly wasn't black.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_colour_popularity

According Wikipedia as 2006 silver was the most popular color followed by white.

 

[Meghan54]

Depends upon what region you're speaking about.

In the U.S., white just edges out black and silver---silver being the top color here until around 2007.

In Europe, in 2010, black is the top color, followed by grey, silver, and white.

World wide, silver still tops the charts, then black and grey.


Interesting charts by DuPont for 2010, esp. the country/region breakdown on color popularity: (We'll have to wait a few months to see what happened this year)

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/12/07/worlds-most-popular-car-color-silver-under-threat-from-black/

 

[Doppel]

Worst is that beige that old camry drivers love but silver is a close second, it's really quite awful. White looks good except in older northern cars, as it shows rust most readily.

 

[ponyo]

Silver is the new black. White is probably helped out by fleet cargo vans, trucks, and cars. Think about how many contractors use white cargo vans or trucks. FedEx, city and county work trucks, utility companies, etc.

 

[JackBurton]

I can't stand white cars. They look like rental cars.

 

[Howard]

Silver is the new black. White is probably helped out by fleet cargo vans, trucks, and cars. Think about how many contractors use white cargo vans or trucks. FedEx, city and county work trucks, utility companies, etc.

Nope. I see huge numbers of Audis, BMWs, Infinitis, etc. in white.

 

[Throckmorton]

Whatever the popular colors are, at least it's not the 90s when we had all those nasty teal and gold cars. It's like they were trying to make cars look even frumpier than they were. (my 240sx was a horrible teal, my Cherokee is a less horrible teal)

 

[NutBucket]

I can't stand white cars. They look like rental cars.

"Cheap" white is just a bit plain. Most manufacturers tend to use different variations of pearl white which usually looks great.

The only pure white I can remember really liking is the Championship White Honda used for the old Integra Type-R.

When I was considering buying a Focus earlier this year, a big complaint I had was the SE hatch was only available in a plain white. SEL and higher trims have a pearl while but of course they aren't available with a 5-speed.

 

[PottedMeat]

the only white cars i notice are ford edges. it's not a nice white either, it's some nasty 'almond' white that looks like printer paper left out in the sun for years. seems like ~90% of edges here are white, the other 10% are black.

 

[FuzzyDunlop]

I agree that the 'standard" or "Cheap" white look boring and plain. But there are some Metalic Pearl Whites that can look absolutely amazing on some cars.

 

[JackBurton]

"Cheap" white is just a bit plain. Most manufacturers tend to use different variations of pearl white which usually looks great.

The only pure white I can remember really liking is the Championship White Honda used for the old Integra Type-R.

When I was considering buying a Focus earlier this year, a big complaint I had was the SE hatch was only available in a plain white. SEL and higher trims have a pearl while but of course they aren't available with a 5-speed.

True.

 

[Shawn]

I've been seeing a LOT of those lime green mazda2's and ford fiestas. As well as a lot of other non-standard colors on recent economy cars. Seems to be the new trend.

 

[FuzzyDunlop]

I've been seeing a LOT of those lime green mazda2's and ford fiestas. As well as a lot of other non-standard colors on recent economy cars. Seems to be the new trend.

I hate hate hate the green trend. It needs to DIAF.

 

[sjwaste]

I've only owned white cars for as long as I could drive. When I went out to get a new car recently, I wanted a dark grey one. I ended up with a white car after seeing it and really liking it. Heh.

 

[Koing]

Silver is really popular in europe...but I think it's such a rubbish colour. I'll never buy a silver car.

White looks pimp on a GT3

Koing

 

[CptCrunch]

I always play "spot the rental" game, and most of the rentals are white/silver/black. I have to assume they skew the results to those colors since they buy so many cars each year.

 

[NutBucket]

LOL! My last few rentals were a light blue Milan, a dark red Malibu, a dark blue Camry and a black Galant.

I only had the Galant because the Camry reeked of smoke so I returned it.

 

[KentState]

There are some cars that look great in white, but most look like rentals to me. The biggest thing that helps is a nice contrast in the details or a diamond/metal flake. I'm personally stuck on the graphite grays, metallic reds or bright blues.

 

[makken]

I can't stand white cars. They look like rental cars.

White is really a color that grows on you. It doesn't have that immediate visual impact of other colors.

Of course, there are some cars that were just made for white:

 

[CRXican]

silver fo sho

 

[JackBurton]

White is really a color that grows on you. It doesn't have that immediate visual impact of other colors.

Of course, there are some cars that were just made for white:

They'd look MUCH better in just about any other color. White just looks boring as hell.

 

[CupCak3]

I can't stand white cars. They look like rental cars.

lol... I've probably had 150+ rentals in the past 4 years and I can count on one hand how many of them were white.

 

[KentState]

White is really a color that grows on you. It doesn't have that immediate visual impact of other colors.

Of course, there are some cars that were just made for white:

Would like those if in another color personally. That's the best thing about owning your own car, you get to pick the color.

 

[DivideBYZero]

White is really popular in the UK right now. We have a new white car arriving in the next two weeks, too.