Why is it if you want to buy a new car and you want any colour other than white you have to pay extra ? A white car still has to be painted. White paint still has to be manufactured/mixed and as ‘white’seems to vary in shade from one car company to another it can’t be because it’s a standard colour.
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For example 18 plates run from 1st March 18 to 31st August 18.
they then switch to the 78 format from September.
Which is a shame as I'd hoped to get an 88 plate for my 30th... Have to wait til my 40th now...
Just had a look at the configurator for the Range Rover Sport. The basic choice is black or white in "solid" at no extra charge. There are then seven metallics at £850 extra; one "premium" metallic at £1,695 extra, 15 "ultra" metallics at £3,570 extra and five "specials" at £6,120. I reckon about half of those colours are either black, white or grey in various shades. They then want to charge you an extra £615 for a black glass roof but don't deduct anything for not having to paint this bit of the car!
But I know some car paint is expensive and some of these are chromaflair which I seem to recall is about £250 a litre (and you'd probably need close to 20 litres I guess for a Rangie), then there's the base coat and the clear coat stuff, so maybe it's about right but presumably Land Rover get a bulk buy discount!
When I had TVRs you could choose any colour you liked. I've had a BMW colour, a Ferrari colour and one of TVR's own paints on my old cars. They used to charge what it cost and even back then chromaflair was an extra £1750 on a small car. (Mind you, there was a dog called Ned in charge of accounts so anything could have been happening. They'd had to move him from styling when he bit a chunk out of a clay model. Although his efforts made it to the final design and can be seen in the scoops above the front splitter on a Chimaera.)