We live in an age of fantastic car colors. Vibrant greens, bright blues, gorgeous reds — and all of them absolute crap compared to RTR’s revived Mystichrome. We’ve done it, everyone, we’ve found the ideal car color. We can stop painting cars anything else.
RTR recently introduced an “Extended Color Palette and Paint to Sample Program,” which broadens the number of hues available to Mustang buyers. The program includes all sorts of colors, but none of them matter when Mystichrome looks this good. We can stop pretending with all those other shades.
RTR doesn’t make mention of any changes in Mystichrome’s formulation since the 2004 Mustang Cobra, but it seems like something has definitely changed in the paint. We reached out to PPG to see if anything’s changed, and we’ll keep you posted if we hear back, but I’ve certainly never seen the color seem this vibrant in all of its hues — green, blue, gold, purple, amber, everything jumps out at you like its own carefully-formulated paint. Getting all this in one paint code is unfair to other colors, which is why we should simply cease production of them all and consolidate all cars to Mystichrome. Think about the cost savings. Economies of scale or something.
How many grayscale cars do you see in your average commute? How much better would your time in the car feel if every one of those vehicles was decked out in Mystichrome? Think about that world, one where all the boring shades are gone and it’s all Mystichrome forever. I’m not saying this would give us world peace and solve climate change, but we don’t know that it won’t until we try.
Getting Mystichrome on a new RTR Mustang won’t be cheap, but it’ll be worth every penny. The paint costs $15,995 on top of the car itself — more than any car I’ve ever bought in paint alone — but come on. Look at it. Don’t you want to bring joy into the world? Isn’t that worth a few extra dollars? Car colors are slowly getting more interesting, and you should be leading that charge.