Silver: the Most Loved Car Color

If you have seen my post about Saleen S7 Twin Turbo, you must have noticed that I have posted a number of colors of this sedan. Yeah, I badly dream about this but to tell you the truth up to this very moment I still cannot pick the right color for me. Well, my favorite color ever since is blue (I can still remember those slum notes that I used to sign during my grade school years loudly saying that 'BLUE' is my much loved color! lol). But I love red sports car so sooo much! So, I thought of the red Saleen S7. But then again, I find the yellow one so appealing. So now, here I am in the middle of a big confusion. Phhew! Anyway, I didn't write this to tell you about my uncertainty. I wrote this because I learned something about car colors (silver car, in particular) that I wanna share with you. Here it goes..

The survey was done in the years 2003 and 2004. I know it's kinda out of season already but most probably this could still be true up to the very moment. Anyway cars are a long term investment, right? What I found out is that among the assessed countries and continents, one car color stands out to be the favorite. That is the silver. In Europe for instance, this color has 30% share of manufactured autos in 2004 while the succeeding one (black) only got 17%. From North America, South America to Asia, silver ranks as the top while the following colors vary, which only implies the strong inclination of people to this color. Different kinds of vehicles have different color share percentage as well. Say for instance in North America (2003-2006), although the silver is the overall top ranking shade, it only ranks third in the line of luxury cars. White got the top spot while black ranks second. While on the other types of autos like the full/intermediate vehicles, sport/compact cars, and SUV/truck/van, it remains to be on top. In the year 2007, it also topped the chart of the most popular car color gaining a percentage of 31.5. However, during the recent years, black and white vehicles have been catching more attention from car owners than they used to. What could this mean?

According to Jane E. Harrington, PPG manager, color styling, automotive coatings "Silver is popular with consumers and automakers because it accentuates the styling of a vehicle and looks modern while also having a high resale value." To cut it short, silver cars are more practical than other colors. However, the rising number of other colors like black and white is the result of the people's fashion consciousness and interior decoration influences. You might have heard that a vehicle's color has so much to do with the owner's personality...much like the type of vehicle that one drives has so much to say about who the driver is. This just makes people become more adventurous to their vehicle's color. Finding one that matches their personality makes them shift from silver to other more pronounced colors...making us look forward to an automotive future that is way more colorful than what we have today.

Nevertheless, this still doesn't make the silver car lose its rank as the top most popular automotive color (at least for now, heheh!). After all, more people are still enjoying the pride of being elegantly prestigious - that's what the silver car color imply. So, this just enlightens me why I can see more silver cars on the road than any other colors. So, that would be all for now. Hope you learned something...heheh!

Sources: www.autospectator.com, www.infoplease.com