Sunderland Echo

Dark year for colour

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Grey has retained its spot as the UK's most popular new car colour for the third year in a row.

Industry body, the Society of Motor Manufactur­ers and Traders (SMMT), say 24.4% of all new cars registered in 2020 were grey – and it was a monochrome top three with black in second place (19.9%), followed by white (17.4%).

Other colours with a more than 1% market share were blue (16.9%), red (9.0%), silver (7.5%) and orange (1.3%).

The overall number of new cars sold in the UK last year fell by almost a third to 1.6million amid the coronaviru­s crisis and uncertaint­y over Brexit.

SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes said: "2020 was a pretty dark year for the automotive industry.

"And having grey as the top new car colour probably reflects the atmosphere."

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