{"id":6495,"date":"2019-01-18T21:38:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T21:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/grey-is-the-uks-favourite-car-colour-for-the-first-time\/"},"modified":"2019-01-18T21:38:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T21:38:55","slug":"grey-is-the-uks-favourite-car-colour-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/grey-is-the-uks-favourite-car-colour-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Grey is the UK&#8217;s favourite car colour for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Ford Focus\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/05E9\/production\/_105231510_gettyimages-1049234558.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">You might have blamed the winter gloom, but if the traffic ahead of you appears a bit drab, it is because the view really is greyer than it was.<\/p>\n<p>Half a million of us chose to buy a grey car in 2018, making it the most popular colour for the first time, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).<\/p>\n<p>Just over one in five new car registrations last year were grey in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of new cars registered were either black, grey or white. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-portrait no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Car sales fell in 2018, so almost every shade saw a decline in the numbers of each colour sold. The exceptions were orange, which grew in popularity by 37% and beige which increased 28%. <\/p>\n<p>Cream was the biggest faller on the colour chart with just 559 drivers choosing it in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Silver, previously a favourite, was no longer among the top five.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Primary colours<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Broken down regionally, the trends were slightly different in Scotland, where white was the biggest seller.<\/p>\n<p>However in Northern Ireland and Wales grey remained popular.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption body-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">You may also like:<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46906254\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images You might have blamed the winter gloom, but if the traffic ahead of you appears a bit drab, it is because the view really is greyer than it was. Half a million of us chose to buy a grey car in 2018, making it the most popular colour for the first &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}