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May
2017.
Mycarcheck.com reveals top 5 used car colours

Mycarcheck.com reveals top 5 used car colours

+ new data shows two-tone cars are more likely to be stolen

 

 

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A new report by mycarcheck.com has shown the UK's five most popular used car colours to be: 1) Black 2) Silver 3) Blue 4) White and 5) Grey. It also revealed that two-tone cars are more likely to be stolen.

 

22.68% of all searches conducted on mycarcheck.com in 2016 were for black cars, an almost identical performance to the previous year, ahead of silver (20.93%) and blue (16.89%).

 

Gavin Amos, head of valuation services at mycarcheck.com, said:"The top five colours were all about average in terms of write-off, finance and stolen risks, buttwo-tone cars were significantly more likely to be stolen. For example, 5.56% of black & silver cars, and 2.83%of black & redcars, were listed as stolen, compared to atop 20 makes average of 0.92%. The main reason for this is sporty models tending to have two-tone colour schemes - they're targeted by thieves because they're desirable cars. In the new car market, white has been the top colour for a while, and grey is also on the up, so it will be interesting to see if these trends are replicated in the used car market over the next couple of years."

 

The full Making Better Used Car Choices 2017 report is online at:https://www.mycarcheck.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MyCarCheck-vehicle-check-search-data-insight-report-2016?utm_source=BlogPost&utm_medium=Blog&utm_campaign=2016Report

 

With information from the police, DVLA, insurers and finance houses, mycarcheck.com holds comprehensive data on every vehicle on UK roads - things that buyers should be aware of before making an offer.

 

CDL Vehicle Information Services, which owns mycarcheck.com, performs over a million look-ups a day for companies including AutoExpress, CompareTheMarket, Go-Compare, Moneysupermarket, Swiftcover and Tesco.