Originally Posted by 2004XJ8

Merry Christmas to all!

Not too bright for us! Love the color!

Originally Posted by Ftyperegistry

I think that Jaguar thought Firesand Orange would be hard to sell so they just made fewer. I know they pushed it hard for 2014 when it was released.
However for the 2015 model year Polaris White was the press car color.
It will be tough to find a 2016 F-Type R in Firesand Orange. From the 2015 F-Type R data that I have completed I can make a very educated guess that there are less than 90 Firesand Orange 2015 F-Type Rs out of the approximate ~1500 that came to the US. I would expect a similar number for the 2016 model year as well so you have a small pool to choose from. It was also availabe for 2017 so if you include that in your search you’re looking for 1 in ~200. Slightly better odds but will still be a hard find.

Originally Posted by Wolfy

Big Bright Orange is a derogatory color in America right now. Just saying.

Originally Posted by Jason-ATSV

Why is Firesand such a rare color?!?? I don’t understand why there are so few Firesand cars. I thought it was a featured color for the F Type.

I really like my white 16 Type R, but I’d love to find a reasonably priced Type R.

Originally Posted by jcb-memphis

I wanted a color I would not tire of when I bought my car.

And I wanted something just a little different...where I am located 80% of cars are now white/silver/grey/black. So I went looking for blue, green, and red if tasteful (like Ferrari).

Ended up with Sapphire Blue and love it. It has not diminished in my mind at all...actually gone up in wow over the short time I've had it.

Having had a very bright car once and having spoken to many there are reasons to avoid a color like the one in this topic:

1. It attracts too much attention. Not all attention is good. But it is also fun....one can get tired of the attention....
2. It hides the lines of the car. I think some colors make a car's design stand out and others mute it. To me, this color mutes it. Just my opinion. And yes, I have seen one in person and even considered buying one for a long time that was a good deal.
3. If you ever have an accident, matching it might be absolutely horrendous (or not, have no idea, but it is something I think about) Red is like that. Red is really hard to match...this may be up there. Black is easy of course. A family member once had a red car stolen and rolled. They could never ever get the color right on the panels that got repaired....top end shops mind you that were places people took MB gullwings to.for restorations and paint...

My sapphire blue car gets compliments every day from complete strangers. Not sure the orange would. It seems to be "trying too hard."

I personally like the orange a lot...but in 6m I'd be bored of it. Just me. Sometimes I like not being noticed immediately.....the blue does it for me. BRG would too.

My car looks like this one I found via google. The day I bought two other couples were in line to buy it.....it was, per one wife, the best blue she'd ever seen....and her husband told me she was against buying any new car but "that blue" F-type.....the F-type does that to people......all the colors are beautiful and I think the orange is neat. But if I were to do an orange car it would be a 997gt3rs. Just me. I like BRG too and the limitted 60y colors a bit too...but not as much as this blue. Timeless. I cannot say the orange is timeless and for me that ruins it for an F-type.



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Originally Posted by pahar911

white is rubbish for a F-Type Jaguar ....

Originally Posted by DMeister

There’s a reason why white and black are classic sports car colours. Most high end sports car looks incredible in them, the F-type being no exception.

I think the F-type looks particularly good in white, despite not owning a white one myself.

I thought about black but the maintenance involved with that would not be good for the OCD end of the brain over here ;-0