[shemazar]

Anyone else lamenting the lack of a good grey? We basically have 3 blacks, a white, blue, and bright silver. No medium grey, like Space or Mineral Grey? Come on!!!

[sor]

Honestly, I’ve had so many grey, black, and white cars the past decade that I’m feeling the phytonic blue this time around. Jet black, Platinum grey, mineral white, meteor grey, pepper grey.

[brissim]

Thanks for giving me my afternoon laugh (at least its afternoon here). Someone lamenting the "lack of a good grey". For me that's a big tick and a very positive move by BMW. If we end up with a G01 X3, ours will be the phytonic blue.

Tony

[bwcooper]

Not just BMW. I can't believe the lack of color in all the cars being produced today. Nothing but white, black, and silver on the highways! Not that we need the teal and orange cars of the 80's, but come on!! I, too, ordered the Phytonic Blue!!

[KAP8]

The colors are limited and the lack of a red interior is disappointing. Other than Fiona Red which isn't on the USA menu yet. I tried to get my wife to like the Phytonic Blue, but she wanted Alpine White like I have.

[SamS]

Yeah, a bit more variety would be nice.

I originally spec'd Phytonic Blue, but after consideration, I changed my order to Carbon Black.

[Bimar]

Individual colors at a premium coming to a dealer soon

[strike4A]

Originally Posted by X4guy

Individual colors at a premium coming to a dealer soon

Think it’s just Sunstone Metallic on the Individual side of things. For the moment anyway.

[shemazar]

I wish they would just open their catalog for custom orders for a price as long as it’s an existing color.

[midwest 340xi 6sp]

Originally Posted by shemazar

Anyone else lamenting the lack of a good grey? We basically have 3 blacks, a white, blue, and bright silver. No medium grey, like Space or Mineral Grey? Come on!!!

Give it some time, they're coming...Interior too.

[mtlcruisin]

Originally Posted by shemazar

Anyone else lamenting the lack of a good grey? We basically have 3 blacks, a white, blue, and bright silver. No medium grey, like Space or Mineral Grey? Come on!!!

Ya, just noticed that. The colors aren't that great, they are all dark. I was hoping for Mineral Grey!!

[shemazar]

Spoke with a couple dealers, and they all say individual or custom colors won’t be offered because “the spartanburg factory isn’t setup for it”. You can do any other car, just none manufactured at Spartanburg, SC - x5, x3,x6, etc. supposedly they’re working on dding that capability, but no ETA.

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[KAP8]

Originally Posted by shemazar

Spoke with a couple dealers, and they all say individual or custom colors won’t be offered because “the spartanburg factory isn’t setup for it”. You can do any other car, just none manufactured at Spartanburg, SC - x5, x3,x6, etc. supposedly they’re working on dding that capability, but no ETA.

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But it is bizarre that Canada and the UK can order the Individual interior colors, but USA destined X3's cannot at this point.

[taz101]

Originally Posted by shemazar

Spoke with a couple dealers, and they all say individual or custom colors won’t be offered because “the spartanburg factory isn’t setup for it”. You can do any other car, just none manufactured at Spartanburg, SC - x5, x3,x6, etc. supposedly they’re working on dding that capability, but no ETA.

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Thats bs mate the X5 is made there and you can have indiv interior merino leather etc

[ND40oz]

Originally Posted by KAP8

But it is bizarre that Canada and the UK can order the Individual interior colors, but USA destined X3's cannot at this point.

They may be able to order them, but I was told they won't be available until mid Nov. production.

[kimyong]

Originally Posted by shemazar

Anyone else lamenting the lack of a good grey? We basically have 3 blacks, a white, blue, and bright silver. No medium grey, like Space or Mineral Grey? Come on!!!

EM

[strike4A]

Originally Posted by taz101

Thats bs mate the X5 is made there and you can have indiv interior merino leather etc

I think he was referring to Individual colours that are outside of the chosen Individual palette for the model. In X3's case, only Individual colour available (for UK) is Sunstone Metallic. If I wanted San Marino Blue, for example, then I would not be able to spec it whereas I could for models built in Europe.

[taz101]

For UK peeps, I actually got a genius who didnt just give the usual 'we dont have info' line and gave me a date of 27th November for which BMW Individual options will be available on the new X3 i.e Full Merino leather etc. Hope thats true cos normally it's a good 6 months after launch before Indiv stuff appears! Includes Piano Black trim which isn't on the config at the moment, only dark options are gay looking woods

[strike4A]

Originally Posted by taz101

For UK peeps, I actually got a genius who didnt just give the usual 'we dont have info' line and gave me a date of 27th November for which BMW Individual options will be available on the new X3 i.e Full Merino leather etc. Hope thats true cos normally it's a good 6 months after launch before Indiv stuff appears! Includes Piano Black trim which isn't on the config at the moment, only dark options are gay looking woods

Ordered my M40i today from Park Lane. Individual options are there on the SA3 ordering system. Piano black trim is £300.

[Bimar]

Any rumors of new colors being added?

[nlk10010]

All car manufacturers (at least the European ones) have cut down their color choices drastically over the last 10-15 years. Wifey tells me to buy any car I want as long as it has blackout window trim and she gets to pick the colors, outside and in. She loves dark green, which Porsche, MB and BMW used to have but now no longer offer, even in custom (although you can get that color in Paint-to-Sample in Porsche). Dark reds have also dropped off the charts. It's got to be a bottom-line thing (i.e. consolidation of options) but it stinks so much that now my wife doesn't even care about colors. We had to go with Carbon Black Metallic for the X3 M40i I bought yesterday.

[ZHPsedan]

Originally Posted by strike4A

I think he was referring to Individual colours that are outside of the chosen Individual palette for the model. In X3's case, only Individual colour available (for UK) is Sunstone Metallic. If I wanted San Marino Blue, for example, then I would not be able to spec it whereas I could for models built in Europe.

Yeah, these individual options aren't exactly the same as true individual colors with near limitless choices. 1 extra champagne metallic isn't truly as individual as the stuff coming out of Germany.

I for one would like to see a Silver Grey like my old 330i.