Grey still leads - but green is gaining momentum in UK new-car colours

In 2025, more than 558,000 new cars in grey were registered, marking a record number and representing over a quarter (27.6 %) of all new registrations. 

The Colour Rankings

While grey remains the top choice, other colours also held strong positions in the list of best-selling car paints:

• Black came second with 464,369 registrations
• Blue secured third palce, with 306,349 registrations
• White remained in fourth place, with silver claiming fifth
• Red fell to sixth place, lower than previous years

Joined together, the top three colours (grey, black and blue) accounted for almost two-thirds (65.8%) of all new cars joining UK roads in 2025.

A Surge in Green

Although sitting further down, green made the biggest gains among the top ten colours. Registrations of green cars jumped by 46.3 % compared to the previous year, reaching nearly 100,000 units - the highest in two decades. This rise in green cars aligns with another industry shift: green-tinted electric vehicles nearly doubled in number, with over 23,000 new electric vehicles (EVs) registered in green shades. That means one in every 20 new battery-electric vehicles was green in 2025 - a sharp increase from just one in 300 the year before.