A Japanese supplier provided a patented substance called Xirallic, used to give the red and black paints a slight metallic glitter. Ford is working with its paint supplier to find another ...

Ford Motor Company is telling its North American ... The restricted colors are tuxedo black, royal red, red candy and red fire. The pigment to make the paint look metallic is made in Japan and ...

Ford is telling its dealers not to order vehicles in Tuxedo Black paint or in three variations of red, according to USA Today. The pigments for those paints come from a Japanese supplier.

Supply chain issues in the wake of Japan's recent earthquake haven't had an effect of Ford's final assembly, but it appears the automaker may be forced to avoid painting new cars black or red.

There's a strange detail in the Ford logo that people are only just noticing ... sometimes the colours are different - there's red, there's black, there's different shades of blue.