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Originally Posted by AB-UK
When the Q7 was sold a couple of years ago, the Audi configurator offered a personal range of colours, for an additional cost of around £2k.
A shame Volvo don't do this - it only involves programming the colour into the paint shop computer - hardly rocket science.
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There's a heck of a lot more to it than that. Paint is bought and stored on site in big bulk vats of about 5000 litres per colour, and the number of colours available often depends on the number of vats available to feed the spray guns. Also the guns need cleaning between colours.
There may be other limitations in older and less well equipped paint shops that makes them unable to cope with more than one colour per car. It takes rather sophisticated techniques and equipment to, for instance, paint a car blue but paint its roof and some pillars black. Some factories are geared up for this [I suspect that the XC40 factory is] and some are not [60 and 90 series in Sweden].