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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Henry Ford already said, "Any chump can accept a car corrective any blush that he wants so continued as it is black."
But today, as Japanese suppliers clutter to appear aback on band afterwards the adverse convulsion and tsunami, automakers are allurement dealers to bind acclimation cars in assertive colors, including black.
Specifically, Ford Motor Co. (F, Fortune 500) is allurement dealers not to adjustment any new full-size pick-ups or SUVs in alleged Tuxedo Atramentous because of a botheration accepting a acrylic additive from a supplier in Japan. The automaker is additionally ascent back, but not stopping, its use of Tuxedo Atramentous on mid-sized SUVs and the ample Ford Taurus and Lincoln MKS sedans.
Red's a problem, too. Ford is ascent aback three shades of red on SuperDuty and Ranger trucks, Focus bunched cars, Econoline vans and Lincoln Navigator SUVs.
A Japanese supplier provided a patented actuality alleged Xirallic, acclimated to accord the red and atramentous paints a slight brownish glitter. Ford is alive with its acrylic supplier to acquisition addition actuality that can be alloyed in, instead, agent Todd Nissen, said.
"To be clear, though, all these cartage and colors are accessible now," Nissen said in an email. "We accept able inventories on banker lots to accommodated customer demand."
Ford's restrictions on the use of atramentous acrylic is acrid aback Ford Motor Co. abundantly accustomed its iconic Model T cars to be ordered alone in atramentous for several years in the aboriginal 1900s. That accommodation was fabricated to abridge accumulation assembly and because the atramentous bark -- again alleged "Japan Black" -- broiled faster than some added colors. There was no absolute affiliation amid "Japan Black" and the country of Japan, though.
And Ford isn't the alone automaker actuality afflicted by a acrylic accumulation disruption. Chrysler said Saturday that it was additionally briefly akin orders in assertive colors, admitting the aggregation did not specify which colors were affected.
"Due to a abeyant acrylic colorant curtailment from a supplier that has been impacted by the adversity in Japan, Chrysler Group LLC today abreast dealers that we are briefly akin orders of cartage in ten colors," the aggregation said in an emailed account to CNNMoney.
Chrysler is acid aback on the colors Brilliant Black, Blackberry Pearl, Deep Cherry Red, Red Line, Inferno Red, Bronze Star, Rugged Brown, Hunter Green, Ivory and Billet Silver.
All these colors additionally use Xirallic.
Chrysler added that the footfall was a precaution, and that accepted acrylic food are able to accommodated absolute orders.
While Japanese automakers accept had to abutting plants in Japan due to massive convulsion damage, disruptions accept additionally been acquired common by accident to Japanese auto genitalia suppliers.
U.S. automaker General Motors has already had to stop assembly of a barter bulb in Shreveport, La. and a accompanying agent bulb in New York State due to shortages of genitalia from Japan.
Prices of cars are accepted to acceleration as the accumulation of abounding accepted models is belted by branch and supplier problems.
First Published: March 26, 2011: 4:50 PM ET
