Car colour may give away your profession.

YOU might be able to tell someone's job by looking at their car colour, according to insurance expert elephant.co.uk.

The on-line insurer looked at data from more than one million drivers to find out if particular professions prefer certain car colours.

Blue proved to be the most popular colour, with a quarter of motorists choosing it.

However, living up to their 'boys in blue' tag, the colour proved even more popular with off-duty police officers who are seven per cent more likely to drive a blue car than the average motorist.

Elephant managing director, Brian Martin says: "The results show that certain professions do seem to have a tendency to drive a colour of car associated with their profession. However, some of the results were more surprising."

Undertakers are twice as likely as the average motorist to drive a yellow car.

The research also showed that chefs who are used to dressing in their kitchen whites for work tend to stick to the same colour for their car and are more than twice as likely to drive a white car than the average driver.

Barristers were four times more likely than the average motorist to choose a brown car whilst debt collectors favour silver cars.

"Red cars are most popular with journalists who are 60% more likely to drive this racy shade that is appropriate to their fast-paced, deadline loaded lifestyles," concludes the survey.