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.

    • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
      3·
      26 days 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

      • piccolo@sh.itjust.works
        61·
        26 days 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.

            • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              25 days ago

              They’re talking about wrap kits in the neighborhood of $500.

              That said, I think it’s dead in the water. They venn diagrammed too close to the sun; they tried to make a cheap electric truck that converts to an SUV. They’re coming in at about the price of a Chevy Bolt, with no stereo, with half the range, with bad aerodynamics. As a pickup truck, it’s weirdly small, like, smaller than an S10 single cab short box. It’s a pickup that’s an inch shorter than a 2 door Blazer. And it’s only rated to tow 1000 pounds. As an SUV, it’s a 2 door, 5 seat, 2 wheel drive, barren box that they’re hoping to entice you to buy with the promise of putting stickers on it.

              There’s a lot about the concept I like, but I think they tried covering too many use cases with one vehicle and made it useless at basically anything. It’s too light duty to replace our aging fleet of S10s, Rangers and Tacomas. It doesn’t have the offroad capability of a Bronco or Wrangler. It’s got 2 doors so few are going to want to use it as a people mover. It’s too American for the kei truck weebs. Who’s gonna buy it?

        • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz
          1·
          26 days 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.

    • watson@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      26 days ago

      A few years ago my car broke down and I needed a new one. I drive vehicles until they die, and I’d never bought a new car before, but at the time used cars were so expensive that with the warranty and all that junk it made more sense to buy new. Anyway, my point is that in my experience, unless you know what you want and order it ahead of time you’re probably getting a white, grey or black vehicle. That seemed to be all they had on the lots. I assumed it was because they’re neutral colors, but it could very well be a trend.

      Edit: I bought a white car. XD