A CAR buying expert has revealing the surprising motor colour that “makes you the most money” and is worth twice as much as black.
Yellow cars hold their value at almost double the rate of the UK’s top car colour of 2024, black.
While black was the most popular colour, yellow motors held their value better than other cars.
Yellow motors decreased in value by just 20% over the last three years. In contrast black cars suffered a 38% depreciation.
The experts at ATS Euromaster revealed that the brighter your car colour, the most value it is likely to hold, with orange, pink and yellow depreciating the least.
The experts predicted the cost of red and grey cars to increase by £775, blue by £675, black by £525 and white by £275.
And the experts found that a shocking amount of UK drivers admit they care more about the colour of the car they’re buying than the mileage.
Mechanic Marc ‘Elvis’ Priestly recently provided some tips to punters looking for a second hand motor.
Mark, whose been buying, renovating and selling them on Discovery TV show Wheeler Dealers since 2020, advised customers to look beyond the miles on the clock.
He said: “Yes, if your engine’s done 200,000 miles, it’s had a hard life, and components will wear out, but there are lots of other things that might suffer on a very low mileage car if it hasn’t been run anywhere.
“If it’s been sat in storage for a long time, some people will think that’s a wonderful thing, and that it’s going to be in great condition, but there are still things that will deteriorate on a car just due to its age, like corrosion in the bodywork.”
