Hello Jamie! I completely understand why some folks need/want some neutral colors to hide scratches and dust, but please give us some bold and unique colors as well. I have been looking at some of the classic IH trucks and saw some pretty fantastic colors so dipping into the heritage color book seems like a good place to start. For a good example of a color program, take a look at VW's GOLF R Spektrum program - those cars sold like hot cakes and trade well above book on the used car market. This will be my first pickup in 50 years of driving and I am not planning on it being a pavement princess so bright colors will be nice when I have to dig it out of a snow bank.
Scout Color Poll #1
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I think somewhere in this thread the VW Spektrum program was listed as well. The downfall to that program (as much as I love it) is the shelf life of the paint. So having 20 colors, even as a premium is still tough to pull out. Unless you run the program as an every 2 months we pull all orders for electric yellow and run them on that batch of paint. If people are willing to wait a few months extra that is a viable program and worth SM exploring for sure. For the right color I’d spend a couple grand more but it would have to be the perfect color
Well you certainly are right about the challenges of a running a low volume paint program in the days of automated paint lines. Until very recently I was a VW Spektrum Golf R owner and had the opportunity to interact with the Golf R product manager responsible for the Spektrum program. The program was only possible because VW could send each program car to Audi's special paint line to be hand painted. Scout would need access to either some new manufacturing process or a specialty shop - but there would be some real pay-offs to the brand. At the end of the day, I think I would be happy if Scout just offered a few colors beyond black, silver, white and old-man burgundy (hear me Volvo?)I think somewhere in this thread the VW Spektrum program was listed as well. The downfall to that program (as much as I love it) is the shelf life of the paint. So having 20 colors, even as a premium is still tough to pull out. Unless you run the program as an every 2 months we pull all orders for electric yellow and run them on that batch of paint. If people are willing to wait a few months extra that is a viable program and worth SM exploring for sure. For the right color I’d spend a couple grand more but it would have to be the perfect color