Are colors options regional?

[RangerTX]

Interesting that in my area IL/WI border, I have never seen a red or blue ranger. I was so surprised to see (as new people introduced themselves) two different red colors and two different blue colors. Love them all. I have never seen one of them in the wild.

Only ones I see around here are, black, white, silver, grey and the cactus grey.

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[Motorpsychology]

Interesting that in my area IL/WI border, I have never seen a red or blue ranger. I was so surprised to see (as new people introduced themselves) two different red colors and two different blue colors. Love them all. I have never seen one of them in the wild.

Only ones I see around here are, black, white, silver, grey and the cactus grey.

Colors across US & Canada are the same in all regions. Dealers will stock what they sell the quickest.
Rest of world (ROW) Rangers have basically the same colors, although the names may differ. NA seems to have the greatest variety available vs ROW. Most other markets incl. Mexico have only 4-6 color choices.

 

[Deleted member 1634]

Just means the people in your area are boring and don't want to be creative or stand out. haha

To be fair, almost everywhere you look, no matter the location or type of vehicle, parking lots are dominated by grayscale (gray, silver, black, white). I've never understood that, seems so boring and blasé. But whatever, makes it easier to find my nice bright Saber Ranger in a crowd.

 

[RangerTX]

Just means the people in your area are boring and don't want to be creative or stand out. haha

To be fair, almost everywhere you look, no matter the location or type of vehicle, parking lots are dominated by grayscale (gray, silver, black, white). I've never understood that, seems so boring and blasé. But whatever, makes it easier to find my nice bright Saber Ranger in a crowd.

Yea, I hear you. I have noticed that trend across the entire auto landscape over the last few years.

Black was all I can find. I dont mind it... but, green or blue are my fav for trucks. My first truck was a 78 F150 in green.

 

[Dgc333]

To be fair, almost everywhere you look, no matter the location or type of vehicle, parking lots are dominated by grayscale (gray, silver, black, white). I've never understood that, seems so boring and blasé. But whatever, makes it easier to find my nice bright Saber Ranger in a crowd.

Dealers tend to stock those colors because they do not generate a passionate response. People neither love or hate the grey scale colors. Since that is what they have that is what people buy which prompts the dealers to order more of the same.

I have carbonized grey with the red and black Tremor graphics package. That graphics package generates a lot of pro an con responses on this forum. I would not have bought carbonized grey without them. If I had ordered the Ranger I would have gotten Velocity Blue with the Tremor graphics.

 

[Deleted member 1634]

Dealers tend to stock those colors because they do not generate a passionate response. People neither love or hate the grey scale colors. Since that is what they have that is what people buy which prompts the dealers to order more of the same.

Yep, the old chicken and the egg thing. Which came first, dealer stock causing the public to buy that, or people buying that causing dealers to stock it? Probably a little of both like you were getting at. Those colors are also usually the cheapest, granted by a few hundred bucks which is a drop in the bucket when the whole thing is $40k+, but cheaper nonetheless.

Personally I have never gotten, and hopefully never will get, a grayscale vehicle because I just think it's so boring like I've said (since "hate" is such an intense word for something as superficial as vehicle color haha). Though it's getting harder these days with a lot of models only offering 2-3 actual colors, even if you want to order like I usually do.

 

[Motorpsychology]

I tend to go for darker, muted color, like Area 51 or a darker blue like Stone Blue if they were available in 2021 instead of Carbonized Grey. For '21, Ranger had only Velocity Blue, Rapid, Red Race Red available in XL trim; Too rich for my taste.

 

[subquark]

Race Red all the way! Zooooom!

Plus it's easy for me to find in the parking lot and if someone hits me, well they probably intended to.

And, most importantly, when the sun's at the right angle, the glare and reflection makes our bathroom glow red! =D

 

[Big Blue]

When I bought my '19 Ranger I said I didn’t want a greyscale truck. My 2011 ranger was Black, what a pain to keep looking good during a Wisconsin winter. Only trucks the dealer had was Lighting Blue and Black. Guess which one I bought. I still get comments on it. It really pops in the sun especially when fresh washed.

 

[LaBalbe]

I'm not even sure that the colours (yes, with a "u"!) are the same between the US & Canada. I just looked at the Ford Canada "build & price" for a Ranger Lariat, and the colours available are:

Shadow Black, Oxford White, Velocity Blue, Carbonized Grey, Cactus Grey, Iconic Silver, Race Red, Hot Pepper Red, and Cyber Orange, which is only available if you take the XLT 301A or Lariat Tremor packages.

Unless Cyber Orange is the name for Saber here in Canada, that doesn't seem to be an option.

 

[lazynorse]

Colors seem to have homogenized to safely appeal to the masses.

I chose Cactus Gray because 1) its neat looking, but critically 2) won't look as bad unwashed, dusty, dirty and pinstriped. I am not an aesthetics-first, wax and detail guy. I'm 99% function, 1% form.

Some colors that have gone by the wayside might include Teal (I recall my parents late 90's Nissan was Teal) and Champagne, sort of a prettier Beige. Almost bought an early 90's Mazda B2200 truck in that color. Never see light blue, yellow, rarely orange (Cyber is technically orange), purple. I don't know if I'd want those colors, though. Cactus Gray seems fringe enough for me, given the options.

 

[Dgc333]

Race Red all the way! Zooooom!

Plus it's easy for me to find in the parking lot and if someone hits me, well they probably intended to.

And, most importantly, when the sun's at the right angle, the glare and reflection makes our bathroom glow red! =D

I had a Race Red Focus ST and at the same time my wife had a Dart GT in Header Orange. Also had a Competition Orange and Grabber Blue Mustangs. Still have a 68 Barracuda in Sub Lime green. Wife currently has a Spitfire Orange Jeep. Neighbors would mid me about being blinded when they drove by the house.

Even with the Tremor graphics my Carbonized grey Ranger is pretty tame.

 

[P. A. Schilke]

Interesting that in my area IL/WI border, I have never seen a red or blue ranger. I was so surprised to see (as new people introduced themselves) two different red colors and two different blue colors. Love them all. I have never seen one of them in the wild.

Only ones I see around here are, black, white, silver, grey and the cactus grey.

Hi RangerTX,

It is unlikely for the most part, but there have been region paint choices, sometimes as a test. However regional tastes do vary and dealers order what sells unless special order for a customer where the color pallet is what is offered. The Assembly Plant is used to handling color choices...US Gov't Forest service orders 2000 F150 for example in their color... Very weird to see the plant full of the same color truck for a few days, weeks depending....

Best,
Phil

 

[subquark]

I had a Race Red Focus ST and at the same time my wife had a Dart GT in Header Orange. Also had a Competition Orange and Grabber Blue Mustangs. Still have a 68 Barracuda in Sub Lime green. Wife currently has a Spitfire Orange Jeep. Neighbors would mid me about being blinded when they drove by the house.

Even with the Tremor graphics my Carbonized grey Ranger is pretty tame.

Love all your cars and that Barracuda is especially drool worthy and you've got such perfect wheels on it!

And that blue Mustang looks fantastic! =)

 

[Garemlin]

I like fun colors obviously.

Dealers tend to not order them because they aren't as easy to sell as safe colors.

But outside of the Mustang, Ford does not seem to like to put out cool and fun colors. Look at the Bronco. There is the perfect platform for some color. But with the exception of Cyber Orange, they choose to use boring sedan and luxury SUV colors. Yeah they just put put Code Orange. But that is on the Raptor. Which obviously won't be very common and definitely not accessible to the majority of buyers.

When I ordered my Ranger I went with the color that I didn't like the least. Cactus Gray. It's a little different and will be easy to keep clean. But I would have much rather had a cool shade of blue like Nitrous or Grabber. Or maybe Need for Green.

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