I don't have a gripe with the available colours-you pays your money and you takes your pick as they say-I do, however, have a problem with the b***** awful paint quality of the current water-based, planet-saving paint, generally it's rubbish.
Comparing the paint coating on my UK produced 07 Honda and my Thailand produced L200 05 pickup it's like chalk and cheese, the L200 paint is a dense lustrous finish that is metallic black with a hard clearcoat on top-scratches and hedgerow rash just polish out with no problems.
The Honda on the other hand I don't like to polish, the paint is so soft that I risk going through the clearcoat even by hand so it just gets washed and a drop of demon shine now and again-mostly again.
The two motorcycles are the same - The Yamaha is Japan made - lovely hard shiny paint- the BMW is produced somewhere in europe, same soft paint.
Well done EU-thanks a bunch, whatever works properly you always interfere with and manage to bu**er up!
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