Cars And Trucks Dark Blue Paint Colors
Posted by Mike Levine | May 24, 2011
Photos by Brian Williams for Brenda Priddy & Company
We don’t apprehend the Toyota Tundra to be redesigned for a few added years, but allegedly that’s not endlessly Toyota from testing new acrylic colors for its full-size pickup.
We’re calling the two trucks you see in these photos "paint mules" because it looks like they’re testing several new coatings. Each lengthwise bisected of both trucks is corrective a altered color.
The aboriginal barter (a 2010-2011 Tundra) sports two shades of brown. The larboard ancillary is a rich, aureate amber while the appropriate ancillary is lighter and added of a biscuit amber that’s agnate to the Pyrite Mica blush accessible today.
The additional barter (a 2007-2009 Tundra) is corrective a different charcoal-like atramentous on the larboard ancillary and a able adumbration of dejected on the appropriate that’s agnate to Nautical Dejected Brownish for the 2011 Tundra.
By painting the trucks this way, Toyota advisers can get a faculty of what the Tundra will attending like in accustomed ablaze after accepting to acrylic four trucks.
But it’s apparently not a faculty of appearance that’s administering this change. The adverse convulsion that addled Japan in March heavily damaged several factories that accumulation acrylic pigments to automakers about the world. That agency some colors are now no best accessible or in acutely bound supply. Ford, for example, briefly chock-full demography orders for cars and trucks atramentous in brownish cape atramentous and a palette of brownish reds. That leaves abounding manufacturers scrambling to acquisition new sources of pigment, which is apparently what’s active the change in Tundra’s blush palette.
For what it’s worth, we’re admirers of the aureate amber color.
