A bright colour might be the best choice if you want to sell your car for a lot. iSeeCars’s findings show that yellow used vehicles less than three years old lose their value the least. But gold loses most of its value. This is how the used-car market as a whole turned out. Different colours lose the most negligible value when you look at parts. For example, the best deal is kept on beige trucks. White, black, and silver, the most popular car colours, decline at about the same rate as other colours because they are considered safe choices. Yellow and gold are two colours that are opposites. When selling a used car, the colour of the vehicle makes a big difference in how much it sells. It turns out that gold cars sink like silver in the sea, while yellow cars lose the most negligible value. iSeeCars looked at the market for all three-year-old used cars and found that yellow cars had the best decline rate of all the colours, at 13.5 percent. After yellow, brown (17.8%), and orange (18.4%) come next. The average rate of decline worldwide is 22.5 percent, but gold is at the bottom of the list, with a rate of 25.9 percent over three years. Most standard car colours lose value at about the same rate as the industry average. Used silver, black, and white cars all dropped by about 23%, and used white cars dropped by about 21%, which was just enough to move them up to places 10 and 11 on iSeeCars’ 13-colour ranking. Karl Brauer, an executive analyst at iSeeCars, says two of the most popular colours, silver and black, are near the bottom of the list. Even though many customers and dealers may think these colours are “safe” because they are generally liked, they are far too popular to help keep a car’s worth. On the Comeback, Two-Tone Bright Colors White and silver have been the most common colours for a very long time. PPG, a global paint and coatings company, says that silver was the most popular colour for cars worldwide in 2009. White took over the job in 2011 and stayed in it until 2014. PPG’s Automotive Color Popularity Report for 2021 says that two-tone finishes are returning and that custom colours are becoming more popular. PPG says the most popular colours are violet, grey, blue, and green. But white and black will still be the most popular colours for new cars worldwide. In 2021, 35% of all new cars will be white, and 18% will be black. iSeeCars.com looked at more than 1.6 million used cars from the model year 2020, adjusted for inflation, and then put them into groups by colour and body style to determine the above decline rates. iSeeCars says that not all colours age the same in different types of cars. For example, white is the truck’s colour that wears down the least, followed by orange and green. The value of brown sedans drops the least over time. Minivans are that colour. But this is only one way that your new car’s value will go down, so we have to say that you should buy it in any colour you want, even if (as is likely) it isn’t white.
