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While this year, the most popular car color in the U.S. is plain-ole white, a much different color made waves this summer thanks to a steeply rising British electropop icon: Charli XCX. “Brat Green” immediately launched as 2024’s official color with her new album release, “Brat,” in June. It’s been everywhere since.

Real quick, “brat” is a nearly-if-not-exactly-feminist term for a modern woman who is imperfectly passionate and a slew of other positively-negative qualifiers that are pretty much whatever whoever is calling something “brat” wants it to be.

Last year, it was “Barbie Pink.” But for Summer 2024, Architectural Digest describes the leading color as a shade of green that “seems to provoke a strong reaction…loud and abrasive, but also flirty and fun.” 

The publication quoted Charli XCX explaining the color: “For me it just felt like the most WRONG out of all the options we had…The most off, the most uncomfortable, the most disorientating. And that’s why I chose it.”

Great! Because now it’s a trending vehicle shade.

One fan attended a “Brat” album cover signing and captured what they claimed was Charli’s ride to the event. To market the album, a Tesla was wrapped in Brat Green.

@berni_sounds_ Meet the brat car by Charli XCX ?? @Charli XCX #charlixcx ♬ Vroom Vroom – *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

Now, even dealerships are marketing the color.

@parkplacetexas brat Summer special edition @Charli XCX ? #bratsummer #brat #mercedesbenz #benz #amg #newcarcheck #mercedesgt #gt #charlixcx #charlixcxedit #rarecar #luxurycars ♬ original sound – ParkPlaceDealerships

And, if you already had a Brat Green car, what luck!

@freyawgl my bright green car finally has some use other than the LV insurance song???? #brat #bratcar #charlixcx #bratalbum #fyp ♬ 365 – Charli xcx

360, the popular Charli XCX “Brat” single, has 11.4 million views. The music video is full of used and abused cars, all in common shades of white, tan, and black. In any case, I wonder how long Brat Green will stick around. Considering the definition of “brat” includes the idea that we can change our minds whenever we want, I’m thinking not very.

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Sarah Kennedy joined the MotorBiscuit team as managing editor in 2021 and brings with her a bevy of automotive expertise. She’s an ASE-Certified Automotive Service Consultant and licensed car salesperson with over a decade of shop operations experience.

Sarah was the creator of “Shop Smarts” for MOTOR Magazine and was a contributor from 2013 to 2020. Her work earned her a Gold Medalist award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors in 2014 and Bronze Medalist awards from the International Automotive Media Competition in 2014 and 2015.

She has attended the Automotive Management Institute and earned her bachelor’s degree in English from The Ohio State University.