Exterior color poll - what have you decided?

[run-the-joules]

Wouldn't a good wrap cost just as much?

See my post above. It's hellishly expensive, at least around here. 10% of the cost of the car.

 

[lirandy]

I did think about doing this so I could get a color I actually want, but the quotes I got for full body wraps were preposterously high ($5k+) and I threw that idea away.

Wouldn't a good wrap cost just as much?

Yeah, I know wrapping isn't cheap and definitely will cost more than $1k, but you get exact color you want and uniqueness.

 

[gregincal]

I wanted blue for my Model S, but back then the blue was really dark, it looked black in anything except direct sunlight. I quite like the newer Tesla blue, so that's what I ordered.

 

[Skotty]

I wish they would offer more colors. Same goes for most automakers. And I wish folks would expand into demanding more colors. I long for the day that the blue, red, and shades of grey fad dies and people start demanding a broader color choice.

 

[Moderatefan]

Yeah, with people ordering directly what they want from Tesla, would be nice to have a full palette available like in the Home Depot/Lowes, so you just give them number for your color and they mix it up for you...
Might be harder for body shops to match, but if they can derive composition of base colors from your color number, shouldn't be a rocket science.
Color should indeed be customizable in the Tesla sales model.

 

[RyanDe]

Yeah, with people ordering directly what they want from Tesla, would be nice to have a full palette available like in the Home Depot/Lowes, so you just give them number for your color and they mix it up for you...
Might be harder for body shops to match, but if they can derive composition of base colors from your color number, shouldn't be a rocket science.
Color should indeed be customizable in the Tesla sales model.

I think if any car manufacturer did this they would sell a ton. Imagine being able to choose your custom color? That would be ground breaking but probably not practical.

 

[gregincal]

Yeah, with people ordering directly what they want from Tesla, would be nice to have a full palette available like in the Home Depot/Lowes, so you just give them number for your color and they mix it up for you...
Might be harder for body shops to match, but if they can derive composition of base colors from your color number, shouldn't be a rocket science.
Color should indeed be customizable in the Tesla sales model.

It has nothing to do with the sales model, it has to do with the paint shop at the factory. It can only handle so many colors.

 

[Zaphod]

I think if any car manufacturer did this they would sell a ton. Imagine being able to choose your custom color? That would be ground breaking but probably not practical.

Quite a few manufacturers do offer custom colors, like Audi and Porsche for example, but it does come at a price probably 3x-4x times usual paint upgrade price.

 

[Moderatefan]

It has nothing to do with the sales model, it has to do with the paint shop at the factory. It can only handle so many colors.

Sales model does contribute, its easier for regular dealerships to sell basic colors to many people, but if you picked some weird color that nobody else wants, they'd be stuck with it if your transaction fell through. I guess there may be some delay in the paint shop if they had to mix new color for every car and some wasted paint, but don't know how big a problem that is, provided they could charge a bit extra and otherwise could handle the volume of orders timely.

 

[Stable Hombre]

My wife sometimes thinks I have no soul, I definitely have not given up. I have a dark grey car now but my heart often flutters when I see a clean silver car in the right light. I think the 3 will be a classic and to me a classic sporty car looks best in classic silver. Subtle, classy, sexy and a little James Bond. I am happy that apparently I will also have the least common color.