To wonder why the majority of cars seem to be

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White, black, blue, red or silver.

Where have all the rest of the colours gone?

I loved my dark green astra a few years ago. And I've always wanted a deep burgundy car, or a dark dark purple one. But there just isn't the choice.

I've had, in order, blue, red, blue, blue, black, white, silver, silver, blue, grey, black and am now thinking about having black again.

I can't recall my OH ever having a car that's not black or silver.

Didn't I read ages ago that red cars were more likely to be involved in accidents and so cost more to insure?

My favourite car and colour at the moment is a Fiat 500 in brown with cream leather interior. Based purely on looks, that is.

It would be rather a change from my great big black Q7.

I thought the vast majority of cars were silver, because that's the undercoat paint of all the other colours, therefore cheaper?

I was once told (and could be an urban myth) that you should never buy a car the colour of a snooker ball - so red, blue, green, black, pink, brown, yellow. Because bored traffic cops play car snooker . White is great because you never pot the white!

Currently got a silvery blue Fiat and a greenish gold Toyota.

I was configuring an Audi A5 online, for a price you can have your choice of what seemed like a hundred or so colours, including several purples, several greens, orange, gold, anything really.

I agree that most cars there is shockingly little choice. Usually there are four or five non-colours plus red. Citroen DS5 even red is not an option. (Non-colour = white, grey, black, silver.)

My car is 'alabaster silver'. Chose it because it hides the dirt.

We had a choice of Red, Space Blue or Silver when buying our car. But I wanted it in rust orange but it would have to be a special order.

I bought a brand new car for the first time earlier this year. As default it came in white. Other colours were upwards of five hundred quid extra. So I had white. It looks great when it's clean. It's never very clean.

My car is white (Fiat 500) with black soft top and black checkerboard strip down sides.
DH has a black Golf

I've had yellow, orange (not bright orange) & now I have red-My first car was a Cinquecento Sporting & it absolutely HAD to be yellow-I adored that little car

Mine have been:

white
a fleshy/beige colour (hideous colour that Citroen did)
metallic dark blue
silver
white
silver
BRIGHT ORANGE!!!! (old Beetle though so that makes it ok )
dark metallic grey/blue
metallic turquoise
silver

What I would say is that the more unusual colours (vintage Beetles etc aside) do make it more difficult to sell a car eg. the hideous coloured Citroen I had.

Mine's electric green and I hope very visible. I do not understand why manufacturers are allowed to sell cars which effectively camouflage themselves against tarmac - all the dark greys and dark silvers. In poor light conditions they can be very difficult to see.