Lack of color choices... tired of the same ole same.

Bullet Bob · Friday at 12:34 PM

Am I the only one who is sick and tired of the same old drab colors? Grey, gray, silver, black, white and the rest of the same ole boring same. It's going to be a meme for this era.
I just went to order a new "R" and ended up walking out the door after looking at the color chart. I told my dealer to call me when they get some interesting colors. He said that they're getting more and more customers saying the same thing and hoping Ford will do something soon. Guys, we're paying 6 figures for these trucks, is this is all Ford can offer? It's just paint. And NO, I don't want to wallpaper (wrap) a truck that's this expensive. Just wondering,,, am I the only one?

Stingray23 · Friday at 12:42 PM

You're not the only one. Been saying it for years. Ford really dropped the ball with colors after 2022. I would only be interested in rapid red from the current batch of colors.

DFS · Friday at 12:54 PM

Bullet Bob said:
Am I the only one who is sick and tired of the same old drab colors? Grey, gray, silver, black, white and the rest of the same ole boring same. It's going to be a meme for this era.
I just went to order a new "R" and ended up walking out the door after looking at the color chart. I told my dealer to call me when they get some interesting colors. He said that they're getting more and more customers saying the same thing and hoping Ford will do something soon. Guys, we're paying 6 figures for these trucks, is this is all Ford can offer? It's just paint. And NO, I don't want to wallpaper (wrap) a truck that's this expensive. Just wondering,,, am I the only one?

The way they are selling R's I don't see them making changes due to "lack of demand". I think they are going to keep doing what they are doing until sales plummet. I think painting the truck after delivery is your best option if you don't want to wrap it.

Gator85 · Friday at 1:08 PM

First world problems really suck.

smurfslayer · Friday at 1:36 PM

Not digging shelter green?

Bullet Bob · Friday at 1:54 PM

DFS said:
The way they are selling R's I don't see them making changes due to "lack of demand". I think they are going to keep doing what they are doing until sales plummet. I think painting the truck after delivery is your best option if you don't want to wrap it.

You're right regarding the repaint. However, I always consider resale value with every purchase I make as I trade often and I'd be spending probably $10K+ to repaint a low production truck, only to depreciate the resale value.
As a sidebar;
I took my 85 year old mother to the doctor's office the other day. They had just done a total makeover of the entire building, and it was really a high-end build. Everything in the building was gray. Chairs walls, floors, even the paintings on the wall were gray. My mother kind of chuckled to herself and commented that she noticed in her lifetime that colors are cyclic, and that gray was popular back in the 1950's and early 1960's. She said "Battleship Gray" was the rage back then. Then things changed and people decided that the color gray was too depressing, and perhaps consequently, colors went wild in the psychedelic 1960's. Who knows what's next. I guess I'll just be happy with my Code Orange 37 for now.

Bullet Bob · Friday at 2:00 PM

smurfslayer said:
Not digging shelter green?

It's okay, and I do like it, just not enough to spend 100+ large on. The pretty blues like Carrol Shelby had on the Cobras, now that would look nice. Ferrari Reds perhaps. Lime green, and yellow. I know Lime Green wouldn't be a high production color; however, it's those low production colors are always the valuable ones down the road.

I'd buy Lime Green in a nano second especially if it were one of those "House of Kolor" paint colors. For those not familiar with House of Kolor, Google Image: "House of Kolor" and you'll see what colors really can be. Jon Kosmoski really changed the industry with his colors back in the 1960's. Ford's Ruby red is an original House of Kolor paint. They bought the rights to use it from Kosmoski and when their contract ran out Ford changed it half shade lighter and called it Rapid Red to avoid paying him again.

Sage · Friday at 2:12 PM

Different strokes... I'd puke if I saw a lime green one!!!

shigman · Friday at 2:14 PM

Toyota for all their deficiencies really does win the colors game most of the time. All the weird color TRD pro 4runners are sought after now.

Bullet Bob · Friday at 2:21 PM

Sage said:
Different strokes... I'd puke if I saw a lime green one!!!

Hope you haven't had dinner my friend... I like it.

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