The color of a classic car
05/09/2015
A large car ad portal recently published the most searched for and most offered colors in Switzerland. According to this, 40.94% of all inquiries are looking for black cars, with a further 30.24% looking for white cars. This is followed by blue (6.46%), red (5.51%), gray, silver, yellow and green. Black also dominates the supply of cars for sale with 26.3%, followed by white with 19.41%, gray with 19.04% and silver with 11.21%. Only then do actual colors such as blue, red or far behind yellow follow.
If you want to simplify the statistics, around 71% are looking for a black or white car, but only 45% of the offer corresponds to these colors. In principle, this increases the value of these black and white cars, while there is an oversupply of blue or green cars.
Of course, the statistics refer to a supply that consists primarily of new and used cars, but hardly any classic and modern classics.
But what about these vehicle categories? How important is the color of the old sheet metal? Do classic car buyers also want to buy their classic in black or white, or are they satisfied with the colorful palette that was common in the 1970s? There are hardly any statistics on this.
However, old cars are adapted to their owners' color tastes far more often than new ones. Many a silver, brown or light blue Ferrari, for example, has at some point been repainted in the racing team color "red" and many an English car has changed from green or black to baby blue or yellow in the past. Nevertheless, current new car fashion colors hardly play a role at classic car meetings. On the contrary! Here, there is a variety of colors and no black-white-grey pattern.
Maybe that's why classic car drivers are the happier people ...
