All Corvettes are NOT Red

 

Ok, so, obviously not ALL Corvettes are any one color, but there are certainly those that are more popular than others.  If you would have guessed the most popular color ordered between 1968 and 1982, you'd likely have gone with Red.  

 

I recently decided to take the production counts, that are available, for all model years from 1968-1982 and determine if Red was in fact the most popular color.  I was not only surprised to find out that it didn't come in first place, but it came in fourth place!

 

Corvette paint color names where usually not as simple as "Red" or "Blue." They had fancy names like "Mulsanne Blue" and "Ontario Orange."   So, in order to make the numbers a little easier to work with, I took all the various color names and put them into categories. 14 Single Color Categories (White, Silver, Blue, Red, Black, Tan, Yellow, Green, Orange, Maroon, Brown, Gray, Bronze and Gold) and 5 Two-Tone Color Categories (Black/Silver, Blue/Silver, Maroon/Silver, Gray/Silver & White/Silver).  So, colors like "Mulsanne Blue," "Bridgehampton Blue," "Light Blue" and "Dark Blue" were grouped together as "Blue."  Colors such as "Medium Saddle," "Buckskin," and "Corvette Light Beige" were grouped together as 'Tan."

 

 

Here's how the numbers look on a chart:

 

And here is the raw data:

 

Color Category	Production Count
White	64516
Silver	60003
Blue	55653
Red	48819
Black	36135
Tan	31924
Yellow	27102
Green	20120
Orange	18275
Maroon	14472
Brown	12791
Gray	9128
Black/Silver	6502
Bronze	3806
Blue/Silver	1667
Maroon/Silver	1301
Gray/Silver	1239
White/Silver	664
Gold	648
Grand Total	414333

 

So, do the results surprise you?

 

What would you have guessed was the most popular color?

 

 

Everyone wanted a little red corvette, the beach boys, even the artist formally known as Prince knew that the red corvette ruled.

Thats why I have both... a Red and a White.........just saying

ebo

my7t1 said: Well as you can see by my sig pic that when I bought my 71 it was painted black by mistake, which went over Warbonnet Yellow, also a mistake. So it took 3 paintings to get it right.

By the way I believe your total is off 

Most popular colors for cars

23% White

18% Black

16% Silver   

13% Gray

10% Red

  9% Blue

  5% Brown/Beige

  3% Yellow/Gold

  2% Green

I'm thinking Silver and Gray are close so those should be 29% which would make Silver/Gray the most popular.  

the top four colors makeup 70% of the cars on the road.  You know with 10% of the people making the same mistake in not a big deal.  But wait those are not sports car people:

Sports cars

20% Silver

17% Gray

16% Blue

14% Black

10% White

  9% Red

  6% Green

  5% Light Brown

  3% Yellow/Gold

Mmmm Red still did not make it into the top 70%

And yes it is a slow day at the office.