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The most popular car colours as of 2012 were greyscale colours, with over 70% of cars produced globally being white, black, grey or silver. Red , blue and brown / beige cars ranged between 6% and 10% each, while all other colours amounted to less than 5%.
From the beginning of organised motor sport events, in the early 1900s, until the late 1960s, before commercial sponsorship liveries came into common use, vehicles competing in Formula One, sports car racing, touring car racing and other international auto racing competitions customarily painted their cars in standardised racing colours that indicated the nation of origin of the car or driver.
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Henry Ford famously said "any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black," and from 1914 to 1926 the company's cars did, in fact, only come in black.
Rosso corsa is the red international motor racing colour of cars entered by teams from Italy. [2]Since the 1920s Italian race cars of Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Lancia, and later Ferrari and Abarth have been painted in rosso corsa ("racing red").
In his autobiography, Ford reported that in 1909 he told his management team, "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." [ 53 ] However, in the first years of production from 1908 to 1913, the Model T was not available in black, [ 54 ] but rather only in gray, green, blue, and red.
Do Sacramento-area car buyers align with the national trends of vehicle colors? We reveal the 10 most popular car colors in the region.