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Axalta Reports Most Popular Car Color

Axalta Coating Systems 69th annual Global Automotive Color Popularity Report, reveals the most popular automotive color in North America.

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2022 Mustang Mach-E in the most popular color in the world: white. (It is actually Premium Ice White.) The roof is available with the second most popular color: black. 


Photo Credit: Ford

Quick:

According to the Axalta Coating Systems 69th  annual Global Automotive Color Popularity Report, what is the most popular automotive color in North America?

White. 28% say so.

How about South America?

White. 35% agree.

Russia?

White. 34%

Africa?

White. 43%.

Asia?

White. 45%

Japan?

White. 37%

China?

White. 50%

South Korea?

White. 32%

India?

White. 34%

Europe?

Gray. 27%. White is second, at 23%.

In fact, of all of those geographic markets, white, gray and black are the dominant colors.

In North America, gray is second at 21%, followed by black, 20%.

The Axalta researchers found that although on a global basis white accounts for 35% (of that it is 21% solid white and 14% pearl white), it declined from the last survey by 3%.

But the global dominance of the color is unmistakable as black and gray are both back at 19%.

The global palette opens up down in the single-digit range: 9% silver, 8% blue, 5% red, 3% brown/beige, 1% green, 1% yellow/gold.

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