19MY colour comparison
#22
I saw a program on how cars are manufactured, unless its a very high volume line like a ford fiesta or something, they pretty much change the colour of paint in the spray booth for each car coming through the productions line as with the Ftype they are all bespoke orders, As far as I know they don't do 20 IRR then 20 white etc, they change it for each car, so whilst a metallic paint might cost about £50 more in raw materials, the rest of it is just charging more for more desirable colours as far as I can see it
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Suaro (01-10-2018)
#23
dave_Sw1 Thank you for making that point. I can understand that there is an additional cost for certain materials (e.g. metallic versus flat paint), and that there is a cost associated with offering additional colors and options (someone has to check the box and there is another line in the catalogue), but with just-in-time inventory and modern computer assembly management, the cost of offering an otherwise catalogued color can't justify 9K. Now if you are Porsche and doing completely custom colors, matching a piece of clothing (you will note I did not say undergarment) for example, I can see the pricing being different. Another aspect of what you have observed is that in addition to cost and pricing, why are not more colors and options offered in the first place. If the line is doing purple cars for the UK why can't it do them for the US. Indeed I would think there would be some cost savings having similar offerings on a global basis. Now there are regulatory constraints, but I doubt if there are very many of them.
#24
The swatches are pretty useless, as usual.
My IRR definitely looks like the SRR not like the IRR one.
I think I will start calling it SRR though, to inflate the perceived value of my IRR.
the Ultra metallic paints, if they like the ones I've seen on lamborghinis, DO take more work to apply (more coats, etc), and are significantly more sparkly, so I understand there being a premium in that case.
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My IRR definitely looks like the SRR not like the IRR one.
I think I will start calling it SRR though, to inflate the perceived value of my IRR.
the Ultra metallic paints, if they like the ones I've seen on lamborghinis, DO take more work to apply (more coats, etc), and are significantly more sparkly, so I understand there being a premium in that case.
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Might be a good idea to wait for the 19MY configurator to be active then we’ll know for sure what the paint prices are.
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Land Rover SVO paints, applied at a new facility, no doubt the same and I can see how it might be costly...
https://www.landrover.com/special-ve...m-palette.html
https://www.landrover.com/special-ve...m-palette.html
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Plus 7 standard colours.
Looks like most colours are available for all models.
Last edited by malbec; 01-13-2018 at 09:33 AM.
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