VW kills shadow blue GTI

[GTO12]

Yeah. Now my car is gonna be "rare". Ha.

I was thinking the same thing.

[hussdog426]

makes me want to repaint my car. All those shades of blue look pretty damn nice.

The other shades of blue are nice, but both of us will have a rare color color soon

[HalvieCuw]

The other shades of blue are nice, but both of us will have a rare color color soon

better jack up the sale price quick

[hussdog426]

better jack up the sale price quick

It would be stupid not to jack up the price

[Outie5000]

That's strange because it's such a good color. I understand why they nixed sage green on the mkv rabbits, because it sucked, but shadow blue is the sex!

VWoA is retarded

[Jargan04]

I would prefer that stay an R exclusive color (stupid Eos).

There is no more rising blue on the Eos for 2013.

[choey]

i want doo doo brown

me too

[Jargan04]

That's strange because it's such a good color. I understand why they nixed sage green on the mkv rabbits, because it sucked, but shadow blue is the sex!

VWoA is retarded

I liked the color. But it was a low selling color. The last shadow blue car I had sat there for 130days before it was sold.

[mike356]

Well I have my Shadow blue so I am happy. Sad to see that the US is happy with 4 shades of gray and red and Europe gets all this....

Oh, those stupid Americans. They would NEVER pay extra for any of those sophisticated European colors. Americans like dull, drab colors. All they will buy is white or gray, except for a few crazy ones who will settle for red.

They should shut up and be happy that we let them have the GTI and R at all.

[anonymous911]

Wish they brought Reflex Silver to the GTI's here.

Yea, I was disappointed to hear that MK6 GTIs wont be getting silver color while I was in the market for a GTI. I will be pissed if Reflex Silver replaces Shadow Blue for 2013.

[BrianC]

So glad I passed on the carbon steel in favor of the shadow blue! I absolutely dig the color, and everyone that has commented on my GTI since I bought it a few weeks ago has complimented my color choice.

Really surprised this color didn't do better for VWoA.

[JettaMobile]

There is no more rising blue on the Eos for 2013.

And the goRf is MY 2013, right? If so, clever Germans.

[rasetsu]

Oh, those stupid Americans. They would NEVER pay extra for any of those sophisticated European colors. Americans like dull, drab colors. All they will buy is white or gray, except for a few crazy ones who will settle for red.

They should shut up and be happy that we let them have the GTI and R at all.

This is true. Blame the American consumer. I was in LA for the the weekend and the 405 and 101 was a sea of grey appliance and entry level luxury cars with a speck of red here and there.

The GTI is one of the few well balanced cars left available. If not for the fact that there aren't really that many other direct competitors in the market (Cooper S, Speed3), VW would have probably stopped selling the model all together in the US.

[mike356]

When I bought my car, I complained to the salesman about the poor choice of colors, and he pointed out that the original GTI was only available in three colors, so they were offering twice as many colors.

That, he said, was progress.

[afrost]

When I bought my car, I complained to the salesman about the poor choice of colors, and he pointed out that the original GTI was only available in three colors, so they were offering twice as many colors.

That, he said, was progress.

Haha that's some sales skills

[Snaeper]

Is it wrong that I look at that picture and begin to lust after the shades of grey that we don't have?

[Outie5000]

I liked the color. But it was a low selling color. The last shadow blue car I had sat there for 130days before it was sold.

Even if it's a low selling color, they should still keep it on hand at the factory so if someone wants to order one, they can. The dealers are the ones ordering the cars, they are the ones who we should blame. It's not whether the color is liked, it's whether it's ordered.

It's not really in the hands of the costumers at that point, it's what the dealers feel will sell. If they don't like blue, they don't order blue, and their customers can't buy blue.


The thing that trips me up is that they HAVE all of those colors at the factory. Why are there no options to get different "upgraded" colors for a price? I would have gladly paid an extra 2500 bucks for a racing green TDI, or maybe a burgundy one.. but no.

[Blaylock1988]

Darn, I was really hoping to get a shadow blue GTI, It is really hard to find them around here...

[hoyalawyr]

Glad I have mine!


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[rasetsu]

Even if it's a low selling color, they should still keep it on hand at the factory so if someone wants to order one, they can. The dealers are the ones ordering the cars, they are the ones who we should blame. It's not whether the color is liked, it's whether it's ordered.

It's not really in the hands of the costumers at that point, it's what the dealers feel will sell. If they don't like blue, they don't order blue, and their customers can't buy blue.


The thing that trips me up is that they HAVE all of those colors at the factory. Why are there no options to get different "upgraded" colors for a price? I would have gladly paid an extra 2500 bucks for a racing green TDI, or maybe a burgundy one.. but no.

While I agee with you that we should have more options, bean counters decide based on statistics and the statistics are simply that American consumers don't buy colorful cars very much. Not many people are going to no longer consider the GTI just because it's not available in blue any longer. Packaging options and colors is a lot more cost effective than allowing for custom ordering. It's all system based from the individual dealer, to the region, to the country, to the factor line.

[Outie5000]

While I agee with you that we should have more options, bean counters decide based on statistics and the statistics are simply that American consumers don't buy colorful cars very much. Not many people are going to no longer consider the GTI just because it's not available in blue any longer. Packaging options and colors is a lot more cost effective than allowing for custom ordering. It's all system based from the individual dealer, to the region, to the country, to the factor line.

How many neon green camaros and mustangs have you seen driving around? That's practically all I see. Mazda offers some off the wall greens and yellows and reds and those sell like hot cakes.

Honda used to offer yellow, and people bought that.


It just doesn't make sense to not offer your full palette for a custom order. There's no logic in that. They have the paint, those cars are all built in the same factory. If someone wants a color and is willing to pay for it, you lose nothing, you gain money and a satisfied customer.

[evosky]

sad sad news.

vw really should offer the option of individual colors just like audi (and all other higher end makes)

[hussdog426]

When I bought mine used, it was the last shadow blue within a 100 miles of my area, not a popular color but when I saw pictures I loved it

[UnitedGTI.]

btw I made it happen.
http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...tates-Petition.

I said if it was offered I would buy one and bought the 2nd one that was available in my area. about 2 days after I saw the first one drive out of the dealership. very happy Shadow blue owner.



i mean how can you not love this color!??

[coneklr]

Whats with the reflex silver people. No offense I just dont get silver cars, so boring! I would love to have a couple of different shades in there especially some of the light-medium blues.

[Snaeper]

Sorry to quote the image again... but I figure it would help your mouse wheel's from too much scrolling. After looking over the volkswagen.de website, I've done my best to get the names for each color.

It should be noted that, in Germany, only Candy White, Tornado Red and Diamond Black Metallic are available at no extra charge. Yes, we don't get many options, but at least we don't pay for them.


1. Candy White
2. Black (Might be Diamond Black Metallic though, I can't tell)
3. Oryx White Pearl (Or Reflex Silver Metallic, I can't really tell)
4. CSG
5. Tornado Red
6. Shadow Blue
7. United Grey
8. Blue Graphite Pearl
9. Deep Black Pearl (I'm unsure now, if this is the black we get or if it's #2)
10. Blue (Blau)
11. Blue Spirit Pearl
12. Dark Violet Pearl
13. Deep Blue Pearl
14. Inky Blue Pearl
15. Light Blue (Lichtblau)
16. "Mercato-Blau" Metallic
17. Moonlight Blue Pearl
18. "Ravennablau" Metallic
19. Silver blue Metallic (Silberblau)
20. Techno-Blue Pearl
21. Ultramarine Blue
22. Violet Touch Pearl
23. "Ginstergelb"
24. Platinum Grey Metallic
25. Silver Grey Metallic (Silbergrau)
26. Urban Grey Metallic
27. "Zinngrau" Metallic
28. Bright Green Pearl
29. Cosmic Green Pearl
30. "Minzgrün"
31. Racing Green (Racing-Grün)
32. "Resedagrün"
33. "Colarot 2000" (Most awesome paint name, ever.)
34. Dark Burgundy Pearl
35. Flash Red (Flash-Rot)
36. Yellow

Some of the paints have been gently translated into English. Mainly words like Pearl from "Perleffekt"

[hussdog426]

Whats with the reflex silver people. No offense I just dont get silver cars, so boring! I would love to have a couple of different shades in there especially some of the light-medium blues.

The silver is a very dull color, also different shades of blue wouldn't be bad as well

[coneklr]

The silver is a very dull color, also different shades of blue wouldn't be bad as well

I dont mind deep silvers (not grey) but deep silver at all. Wish more cars came in those colors.

[rasetsu]

How many neon green camaros and mustangs have you seen driving around? That's practically all I see. Mazda offers some off the wall greens and yellows and reds and those sell like hot cakes.

Honda used to offer yellow, and people bought that.


It just doesn't make sense to not offer your full palette for a custom order. There's no logic in that. They have the paint, those cars are all built in the same factory. If someone wants a color and is willing to pay for it, you lose nothing, you gain money and a satisfied customer.

I actually don't see many neon green Camaros and Mustangs driving around. There are few wild colors, but that's because the American car companies are going retro which includes bringing back some wild colors from the 60s/70s so its part of their marketing image. American car companies aren't exactly the poster child for good financial management. Do you have any statistical evidence confirming that Mazda's off the wall colors sell like hot cakes? There's always going to be that one buyer looking for that one odd ball color. You're right, Honda USED to offer yellow....on low volume cars like S2000 and NSX.

It's because these colors stand out so you are drawn to thinking that you see them more. This is the same reason why people think red cars get more tickets when the fact is that there is no statistical increase in the likelihood of a red car getting tickets more. There are just fewer red cars on the road with the same chance as a white car of getting a ticket.

I'm a SB owner myself, but there is lots of logic in not offering a low demand color or option or whatever. It's sad but it's also just simple economics. In order to keep costs down, it's easy to have as few sizes to fit all as possible. There are other factors involved in doing a one off or limited color aside from changing out the spray gun cans. These are cars are built and assembled by machine for the most part and everything is coded so a change would not just increase the cost of that one car, but of many cars. The truth is, no matter how much one person may be willing to pay, it still might not be worth it to VWAG to make one person 100% happy for a volume model. Most corporations are about being good enough.

[hussdog426]

I dont mind deep silvers (not grey) but deep silver at all. Wish more cars came in those colors.

Deep silver wouldn't be bad, but we need more colors besides gray, black and white

[MK6GTI]

Blue Graphite GTI.

want.

[hussdog426]

Blue Graphite GTI.

want.

Yes a blue graphite GTI would be awesome

[Travis Grundke]

Wonder if they are simplfying production for the NA market towards the end of the model run?

Based on my conversations with friends in the dealership network, shadow blue GTIs sell very slowly as compared to white, black and carbon steel grey. I have little doubt that this is definitely a move to consolidate toward the end of the MK VI production run.

[Blaylock1988]

I am wondering if it is worth sacrificing 4 doors for a 2 door of the blue color I want...

[Aonarch]

I am wondering if it is worth sacrificing 4 doors for a 2 door of the blue color I want...

I love my 2 door.