Ah slate grey. The preferred colour of cars driving on a grey road, in the rain at twilight with no lights on.
Nice! What’s the source?
I scraped over 3.5m car offers (used and brand new) from polish websites for the past three years. I used python for data aggregation, processing, cleanising and visualization (plt).
Gamma World action table.
Purple really had its heyday in '95. Seems like that was the most fun time for car colors. Now, we continue to slink into grayscale.
Ahh yes, the time of PT Cruisers and Mini Coopers
PTs and the BMW Minis started production in 2000
At least white cars are easier to cool. That’s going to be more important with EVs.
I live in Texas, and I’m shocked that cars with black exteriors AND black, LEATHER interiors exist.
I have a friend with a car like that. If he parks for more than 2p minutes, he has to start the thing 10 minutes before he leaves just so he can actually sit down without getting burned or frozen.
Even without the exterior being black, it blows my mind that the best majority (I’d estimate about 80%) of cars on the market here have black interiors. It’s absurd.
White is played out, silver disappearing … Dammit. Just got blue. Apparently just following the crowd
Most expensive colors to put on a car: Red and Yellow Cheapest colors to put on a car: Greyscales
I find it interesting that red seemed to be such an unpopular color throughout the 21st century. I used to drive a 2015 Toyota Corolla in “Barcelona red”, and this exact body and color seemed to be very popular in the area. I hardly can go a few hours on the road without seeing two or three copies of my old car. I also find it humorous how unpopular yellow has been historically. I would love a yellow car.
In fact, there is a local construction/home remodel company whose “brand color” is this sort of dead-grass yellow color, something like hex
#F6F0C0, and they custom-paint all of their company cars to be that shade, and they stand out pretty clearly against the wasteland of plain-colored, boring cars on the road.Just got a CX9 and I’m pretty sure about half the reason she wanted it was because it had that Mazda red on it.
Yeah, space for kids, dog, camping stuff… but also red.
Where the green at?
I loved the color of my parents green station wagon when I was a kid, and it’s still my favorite color but I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a car where it was a choice
I conjecture that this is representative of people’s mood.
Good. Purple, my favorite color, will stay a niche. I can be special without a 20 foot monster truck as my daily driver.
Same. Wait, does that mean we have to duel?
Street race.
Orange didn’t even make the list.
When I was young, a friend had a 79 Mustang that was factory ordered by the original owner in Construction Orange, to match some local high school football team color, and it was absolutely beautiful.
Ooh, neat! I adore (most) orange cars.
I forget what it was, something I read or watched… But there’s a link between the colours society picks for clothing, cars, etc. that correlates with society’s general mood on things. Monotones are negative or unsettled. When society is happier, it tends to go for colours
Oh you wonder why I always dress in black? Why you never see bright colors on my back? And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone? Well there’s a reason for the things that I have on.
https://youtu.be/Ab2u-iGN3uk?si=RHU4Zv2tdfVPpb74
I think this is the video you are referring to. And yeah I guess we been miserable as a society for the past 40 years now.
I was just thinking how one could extrapolate a whole lot about American anxiety by this chart.
The data is from Poland.
Those Poles make other nervous…
hence the pride flag
it is an outburst of positive mood
The Bush Era was pure depression.
dark gray is the best since it hides dust the best.
Green went from really popular to… not at all popular.
I have no memory of green cars being popular in the 90’s although it seems like they would have stood out (and been pretty ugly, probably). Weird how memory works.
It was mostly dark green like with classic Jaguars from what I remember. Nothing like the light green that’s in the charts.
This kind of color was popular in the '90s (note the purple pinstripes, BTW):
Dark green was around too, of course, but the bright teal was definitely having a moment.
As a previous owner of a green ‘95 Ford Escort, I disagree.
Don’t mistake customers being forced to take what manufacturers offer for popularity.
Anecdote time: I was prepared to buy a brand new Tacoma shortly before the pandemic, but didn’t because Toyota couldn’t find one for me with the options and color I wanted (a blue TRD Off-Road with a manual transmission) anywhere in the entire multi-state region. I ended up buying a used car instead. Most people are not as stubborn as me, and would have settled for whatever shitty color was actually available.
1996 was peak colorfullness
