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Well it makes sense for the dealerships to order those colors because those colors sell much more easily. For all other shades other than white, black, silver, and grey, you either love it or hate it. At the end of the day, it's about supply and demand. They sell what most people want. I'm sure if the trend showed people loved pink cars, then dealerships would adjust and order more pink cars. But I'm sure based on the numbers, people simply want the more standard colors. On our factory tour in Ingolstadt, someone asked a similar question as to why most cars are white/black/silver. He gave us some numbers/percentages of how significant it was. Afterwards, the tour guide polled our group to see what colors they had chosen for their new Audi. Basically almost everyone had some shade of black/white/silver. He laughed and was like, well there's your answer. Not that it was scientific proof, but even on custom European Delivery orders most people went with the more generic colors.
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It's all very hand-wavy, just that gut feeling of "I like this" vs. "I don't like this"... I don't know what exactly it is that's missing, and I don't think it'd take much of whatever it is, it's just that as it is, Monsoon's missing "it". Scuba's a nice blue, though, so at least I had a fallback when my love of greys couldn't be fulfilled to my satisfaction.
It's all personal preference. But I agree with the OP and idale, the Sepang Blue is sharp, but seems too bright and maybe light in color. I guess it may be a more unique color. I might be biased since I have an Estoril Blue, but I liked how the Scuba and Estoril had a deeper blue. I wonder if they swapped Estoril with Sepang to be more different than the Scuba Blue
They added more browns, too (at least for the regular Q5), so who knows what the orders were like and what all people might've been trying to get Audi to offer. Maybe Estoril wasn't as popular as we might've thought, so they freed up the color slot for another option. Sepang is usually thought of as a "sportier" option (I guess because it's brighter?), so maybe that's part of it?
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That's what i went with, seemed to be a good low key color, almost like BMW's carbon black. I've only seen it in person on an Allroad so hopefully the SQ5 looks good in it. I was going to go lighter with the Black Optics package but now that they're putting chrome top door handles on with no way to remove them I decided to go dark and forgo the black optics.
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That's what i went with, seemed to be a good low key color, almost like BMW's carbon black. I've only seen it in person on an Allroad so hopefully the SQ5 looks good in it. I was going to go lighter with the Black Optics package but now that they're putting chrome top door handles on with no way to remove them I decided to go dark and forgo the black optics.
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