Paint colour: Red Bull Blue = Rover Tahiti Blue

[neilboyd]

Hello all.
I found out this week that TVR's Red Bull Blue is actually the same as Rover's Tahiti Blue.

I thought this might come in handy for anyone looking to have stone chips removed. OK, given the recent monsoon-style weather (recent = virtually constant since as far back as May if you live in Scotland) that's probably less of a problem than we would all have liked it to be, but you never know.....


Neil

[L1OFF]

that worth knowing as I managed to hit a brick in the road (a loose one from those stupid raised patches to indicate change of speed limit) with the front splitter on the saggy.
Alan

[Mickygee]

Got some tahiti blue and its darker, is there different tahiti blues ?

[Ballistic Banana]

Mick does it have the code at the end like on here

BB

[gopher]

Mickygee said:

Got some tahiti blue and its darker, is there different tahiti blues ?

I think it is darker. We used to have a Metro many years ago in Tahiti Blue, and when we first started looking for a Tiv we found a few in Tahiti blue (which my wife rejected because of the metro, but I quite like it, anyway..) and I would say red bull is lighter and non-metallic (or not as metallic if that's possible)

[anonymous-user]

I had a Tuscan in Tahiti Blue and I'm pretty sure its quite a bit darker than Red Bull Blue.

[Tusc_si]

My Tuscan is Tahiti Blue and I'm sure its darker than Red Bull Blue. I also understand that it is a BMW colour and slightly diffrent to the old Rover version.

[anonymous-user]

Tusc_si said:

My Tuscan is Tahiti Blue and I'm sure its darker than Red Bull Blue. I also understand that it is a BMW colour and slightly diffrent to the old Rover version.

My Tahiti blue (2003 / 52) was def a Rover colour. Looks lighter than yours though...

[Tusc_si]

unrepentant said:

Tusc_si said:

My Tuscan is Tahiti Blue and I'm sure its darker than Red Bull Blue. I also understand that it is a BMW colour and slightly diffrent to the old Rover version.

My Tahiti blue (2003 / 52) was def a Rover colour. Looks lighter than yours though...

Maybe they did a few variations but gave it the same name...that would be very TVR

[anonymous-user]

This was mine;

[Tusc_si]

Mine looks lighter than that, although it does change in the light from a deep dark blue to a more purple/mauve colour.

Here's some pics:

[Mickygee]

Tahiti Blue (Rover code JRJ)is definately darker than Red Bull Blue. Code for Red Bull blue is tvr 107. Which apparently is a ducati colour, ici code p965-1av1b. (Thanks potatomuncher for code)

Edited by Mickygee on Saturday 2nd August 20:32

[Mickygee]

Red Bull Blue (in the classifieds) :

Edited by Mickygee on Saturday 2nd August 20:19