10 car colour facts:
In 2025, the nation’s least favourite car colour was turquoise. With volumes falling -96.7%, just 12 were added to UK roads last year.
As Wicked: For Good finally hit cinema screens, green saw the strongest growth inside the top 10 (up 46.3%).
Yellow also added a splash of vibrancy to the top 10. With 10,725 units registered, the colour held eighth position, although volumes declined for the first time since 2019.
Black turned up the volume in 2025, rising by 41,009 units – the largest gain of any colour in 2025 and its largest volume since 2019. Registrations of less popular colours recorded gains too, with cream cars surging 741.6% to 3,215 and brown rising by 66.3% to 4,027 units.
Inside the top 10, only white, red, yellow and orange saw uptake levels fall, down -9.0%, -14.5%, -10.2% and -10.6% respectively.
While grey came top for most car segments, buyers of executive cars and luxury saloons preferred black, while blue dominated the mini segment.
Grey was also the most popular colour across the majority of powertrains – except for plug-in hybrids (PHEVs), which were most commonly specced in black.
White cars saw the steepest volume fall of the year, down 26,166 units (-9.0%) to 265,462.
However, white remained the archetypal choice for van buyers, adorning 60.2% of new working vehicles, followed by grey and black. Just one maroon van was registered.5
Berkshire was home to more green registrations than anywhere else in the UK, with 6,308. The county also remained the ultimate hotspot for yellow car spotters with 667 registrations.
