Different types, but it feels like a funny coincidence that I saw so many same-color cars in the cul-de-sac around the same house. Just those cars and one grey one.

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    21 hours ago

    I suspect that painting a car during manufacturing is one of the more expensive steps… Multiply that by color range and each extra color is expensive

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      10 hours ago

      The cost of pigments is trival these days. Its more about the fact non-netural colors cars sit on the lot longer because only people that like red cars will buy red cars. But almost everyone will settle for a netural white/gray car.

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        8 hours ago

        I was thinking more of the cost of the painting equipment and facilities and that they are probably configured for one color at a time, so that whole production run is red cars.

        And the opportunity cost of not producing white cars while it’s producing red ones.