LIMESTONE Rivian R1T seen at Salt Lake City Delivery Center!

[kurtlikevonnegut]

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[Bee]

Yes, this is Limestone.

What's the source though? Like, I believe you but it's just so clearly different than this in saturation, hue and overall brightness:

(LS from the website configurator)

Like that could be the worst translation I've ever seen of color to RL, worse than even matte paints. For a company all like, "our colors are specific to things and very important" there's a jarring consistency problem here.

Edit: From this thread. LS over LG. The below is closer but I mean, both are still way less blue than the OP. It just seems too bright and too blue to be photography issues. At least in the past RL pictures looked more like an in-between grey and silver, what we're seeing here is way different.

 

[skyote]

What's the source though? Like, I believe you but it's just so clearly different than this in saturation, hue and overall brightness

I've seen other pics as well. Lighting makes a HUGE difference with greys, and I think camera might be playing in as well.

However, configurator & their terrible photoshop were both way off.

 

[Jac]

Ugh. If Limestone really is more like the color of my neighbor’s light blue VW bug that isn’t going to work for me. This photo has driven me back to looking at photos of other Rivian color options. When I first configured my R1S I chose Forest Green. Maybe I should revert to my first impulse.

 

[Bee]

I've seen other pics as well. Lighting makes a HUGE difference with greys, and I think camera might be playing in as well.

However, configurator & their terrible photoshop were both way off.

My first new car was a 2006 Reflex Silver GTI, very familiar with how silvers photograph and have been into cars my whole adult life. I've never seen an advertised mid-grey translate like this. I would have been truly dissapointed if I got this car delivered to me and it really reads that blue in real life. In fact I've owned 3 cars new in my life in some shade of silver and grey, all "sports" cars I cared what they looked like.

Like what happened here? Did they just decide it was better to darken it up and take the blue out on renders so they could distinguish better from silver? Something is amiss. From a color perspective baby blue with yellow calipers is entirely different feel than mid-grey tone with yellow.

It takes a very specific person to want to rock a baby blue truck. Nothing wrong with it, hell I'd rock a purple truck. But if you're going to want to rock a statement color, you should know you're buying it in advance

 

[AdamsFan1983]

More committed than ever to my longstanding theory that the original launch green was tossed and they reformulated the original limestone as launch green; then had to reformulate the new limestone so that it was different enough from LG to preserve the exclusivity of LG. I kind of like it, but still really want the GW. If I had a choice, I'd probably get teh LG but, I didn't get a launch edition.

 

[kurtlikevonnegut]

I'd like to see some better shots, but based on what I'm seeing it's a disappointment.

It's hard to say how much of the disappointment is not meeting expectations as opposed to being a color I don't really like.

 

[Attesan997]

Color balancing over in a reddit post, thought it'd be helpful here.

 

[timf]

This color also looks a lot like the "not Limestone" prototype featured in Long Way Up. Maybe that was Limestone all along (or at least the basis for it if tweaked slightly).

 

[junkanoo]

If Rivian wanted to be transparent about the colors, they could provide Pantone colors or the like. At the very least, their own photos of ALL their vehicle colors in both day and night. But, that doesn't seem how this company operates.

 

[SlaterGS]

@cjones1130 Did you see this in person or are you reposting?
Seems odd to me that there is no commentary from the person that took the photo on what they saw and what the camera portrays.

Thanks @Attesan997 for sharing the Reddit thread, that is a much more reasonable take on the color IMO as I highly doubt the representation of the OP image is accurate.

 

[Riviot]

That is hideous.

In that particular photo, it looks like just a light blue VW bug.

Hey, I used to go fishing RIGHT there! Great spot for catching some reds ?

Is that the new R2C?

 

[crashmtb]

I’m surprised at this rate no one has gone to a bodyshop to see if Rivian colours are in their mixing computers, and had a sample panel sprayed

 

[koersontap]

I’m surprised at this rate no one has gone to a bodyshop to see if Rivian colours are in their mixing computers, and had a sample panel sprayed

Get out of here with your "ideas" or "reason". This is a dark place, meant for torches and pitchforks.

 

[sub]

If Rivian wanted to be transparent about the colors, they could provide Pantone colors or the like. At the very least, their own photos of ALL their vehicle colors in both day and night. But, that doesn't seem how this company operates.

If they wanted to be transparent about the colors, instead of (or in addition to) the poster they mailed everyone, they would have sent a sheet of paper with paint chips for each color.

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