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

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.

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.

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.

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

Ford Performance Blue looks good under or over white.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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