RE: anyone know about quality problems with white paint at the factory?

["Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com>]

> i heard that they were discontinuing the pearl because it was very
> expensive and it required some elaborate and environmentally damaging
> chemical process...?  certainly they made tons of beautiful pearl cars
> in the last dozen yrs, so didn't seem to be a quality issue before...
> 
... as I reported the other day, that blue TT was claimed to be denim blue
pearlescent metallic ... I didn't happen to see a white pearlescent one
though ...

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)