These are the 5 best blues you can get on a car right now (2024)

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Some of the Autoweek Talks topics get the figurative treatment—others go more literal. This will be one of the latter. When I think Blues, after I think about Nas and Olu Dara, I think about Yas Marina, not the racetrack, the powder blue-ish paint on BMWs. And then I think about my ’63 Pontiac Star Chief’s engine block—now that I think about it, those blues are very close. But I digress. Here are the best blue paint jobs, not including racing liveriesour own Mike Pryson has that here—just factory colors.

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2020 Honda Civic Type R in Boost Blue

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The newest edition to the blues is Honda’s Boost blue on the new Civic Type R that debuted at the Chicago Auto Show. We don’t just love the color because we love the car—though we do—we love it because it’s both exotic and not exotic.

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2020 Honda Civic Type R in Boost Blue

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It’s bright, and will catch the eye of everyone including police, but it’s not bright yellow or green or purple, which is almost exclusively reserved for supercars.

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2020 Honda Civic Type R in Boost Blue

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The Type R has new two-piece brake rotors, while suspension revisions include updated dampers for improved ride comfort, stiffer rear bushings for better grip and revisions to the front suspension and steering for better steering feel.

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2020 Honda Civic Type R in Boost Blue

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If you want to blend in with the Type R, get the gray—if you don’t, here’s your color.

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2020 Ford F-150 Raptor in Ford Performance Blue

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This grayish-blue made a recent comeback as Ford introduced the new Mustang Shelby GT350, Ford GT and F-150 Raptor. It’s now available on a bunch of the company’s cars, and it might be the best blue in this bunch.

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2020 Ford F-150 Raptor in Ford Performance Blue

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It looks cool but still blends in, and it looks great under white or gray stripes. It’s obviously no Alpina green, which is THE current best color on the market, but I wouldn’t mind dousing my gray Mustang GT with a couple buckets of it.

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2020 Ford F-150 Raptor in Ford Performance Blue

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Ford Performance blue also looks great against a sandy, dusty backstop.

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2020 Subaru WRX STI in WR Blue

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World Rally blue from Subaru is found on almost 50 percent of WRX STIs in Japan. For some reason standard WRX buyers don’t like it as much.

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2020 Subaru WRX STI in WR Blue

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When I see the color, I think of Colin McRae’s rally car with a yellow “555” splattered across the side. In fact, when I visualize any sporty Subaru in my head, it comes in WR blue.

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2020 Subaru WRX STI in WR Blue

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I've said before, when a high-winged WR blue STI is in your rearview mirror, you get out of the way.

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2020 Subaru WRX STI in WR Blue

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WR blue is close to royal, but with a metallic edge.

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2020 BMW M3 in Yas Marina Blue

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Yas Marina blue from BMW is inspired by the racetrack of the same name and falls in between royal and powder. It’s close to Columbia blue, which I know from my time in the screen-printing industry.

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2020 BMW M3 in Yas Marina Blue

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It’s a wild color, but again, not totally exotic either. It also has a habit of looking great in front of dark colors and not so great in front of light colors. Again, if I wanted to blend in with an M3, I wouldn’t choose this color.

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2020 BMW M3 in Yas Marina Blue

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We had a long-term BMW M3 here at Autoweek a few years ago in this exact color.

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2020 BMW M3 in Yas Marina Blue

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The complicated Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi was designed by Hermann Tilke. The track is accented in this light blue color.

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2019 Chevy Camaro SS in Elkhart Lake Blue

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Elkhart Lake blue, another paint color named after a racetrack—it’s the where Road America is located—makes the Camaro and C8 Corvette look unlike anything else.

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2019 Chevy Camaro SS in Elkhart Lake Blue

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This color is also metallic, but darker and maybe a little more menacing than WR blue.

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2019 Chevy Camaro SS in Elkhart Lake Blue

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The Chevy Camaro SS comes with a 455-hp, 455 lb-ft 6.2-liter V8. The six-speed manual is the best option, but the 10-speed auto is better than expected.

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2019 Chevy Camaro in Elkhart Lake Blue

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The 2019 Camaro SS gets a bigger, blacker grille. The lower-trim models split the grille with a body color bumper.

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FAQs

What are the different types of car blues? ›

BLUE CAR PAINT | SOLID COLORS
  • Robins Egg.
  • Turquoise.
  • Blue Sky.
  • Bright Blue.
  • Indigo.

What is the most popular new car color? ›

Most Popular Car Colors in America
  • 24% White.
  • 24% Gray.
  • 20% Black.
  • 9% Silver.
  • 7% Dark Blue.

What's the best color for a car? ›

Choosing the right colour for your car can have an impact on its resale value. Although there are many colours to choose from, white, black, silver, blue, and red are the best choices if you want to hold your car's value.

What color makes a car look expensive? ›

Eminent White Pearl

White cars have a natural sense of luxury and classiness that can't be denied. So, it's a great choice if you want to keep your car color simple but not dark.

How many blues are there? ›

Different Shades of Blue: A List With Color Names and Codes - Drawing Blog. This is the largest list of different blue shades, hues and tints on the web with 225 blue colors, together with their names and appropriate HEX (HTML) codes.

Which blues are warm and cool? ›

Ultramarine is a warm blue as it is more biased towards purple on the colour wheel than green. Cobalt is a delicate blue, which has a cooler colour temperature.

What are the top 3 car colors? ›

The study examined over 6.1 million cars on the road to determine the share for each color. White is the nation's most popular color, making up over a quarter of cars, followed by black, gray, and silver. Grayscale colored cars (white, black, gray, and silver) account for 78.5 percent of all vehicles on the road.

What color car looks most luxurious? ›

Neutral colors like white, black, silver, and gray are consistently associated with luxury and elite social status. They are elegant and often considered “classy,” at least compared to “loud” car colors like yellow and red. When considering practicality, sliver and gray hues are much easier to keep clean.

What is the least desired car color? ›

Maroon, pink and cream remained the least popular colours, comprising just 604 registrations combined. Meanwhile, orange, bronze, turquoise and brown fell in popularity compared with 2023 volumes.

What color car is the hardest to sell? ›

Gold: While it may be a unique choice for some, gold cars often have lower resale values as they may be seen as dated or less universally appealing. Purple: As a less common and quite specific colour, purple cars can be harder to sell and might fetch a lower resale price.

Which car color hides scratches best? ›

Silver. Similar to white, silver cars reflect light effectively, making it easier to conceal scratches. Instead of standing out, scratches in a silver car are more likely to blend into the paint.

What color car holds value? ›

In summary. While the best car colors for resale value tend to shift year after year, you can typically expect less common colors like yellow, beige and orange to retain their value better.

Which color car looks classy? ›

Luxury sedans tend to stick with very conservative colors; black, white, silver, gray. Good for resale. Black and white are harder to keep clean, silver and gray pretty easy.

What is the prettiest color on a car? ›

In the world of best car colors, you can count on the old standbys that never go out of style. White, Black, Gray, and Silver continue to top the list of best colors for cars. Based on consumer choice, these car colors jockey for position like a herd of thoroughbreds.

What is the hardest color car to keep clean? ›

Contrary to belief, black cars or darker colored cars have proven to be the hardest to keep spotless. Any speck on the car will inevitably show, from watermarks to pollen to bird droppings. There is also the downside of overheating.

How many shades of blues are there? ›

Shades of Blue. As humanity's technology improves, so does our ability to harness and develop more color variations. We got our first blue dyes and pigments from woad and indigo in the past but now (as of writing this article) we have 23 true shades of blue.

What is the difference between warm blues and cool blues? ›

Warm blues are those with a purple bias rather than a green bias. They will appear to come forward in a painting, whereas cool blues will recede. It is useful to have a warm and a cool blue in a split primary palette - when mixed together they will create a mid blue.

What are the different driving styles for cars? ›

Take our fun quiz and find out.
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What does midnight blue look like? ›

Midnight blue is darker than navy blue and is generally considered to be the deepest shade of blue, one so dark that it might be mistaken for black. Navy blue is a comparatively lighter hue.

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