Buy a new car and one of the big decisions you’ll face is the colour. You’ll be faced with myriad shades plus choices about metallic or pearl finishes, not to mention the same sort of choices to make regarding the interior.
Bike purchases couldn’t be more different. At best you’re likely to have a two or three colour schemes to pick from and you’ll get whatever graphics the manufacturer has seen fit to add, whether you want them or not.
Now Honda has taken a leaf from its car making book and from later this month will offer a revamped version of the NM4 Vultus in Japan with a wide choice of colours. Although two standard colours will remain – black or white – there will also be a further 11 shades to pick from, albeit at a premium of around €170 over the base colours.
While the Vultus isn’t a big selling bike, the ability to offer so many colours suggests Honda has come up with a revised manufacturing process that lets it achieve such variety. If it’s a success, the same idea could well be applied to more mainstream models.
Paintwork aside, the revised Vultus gains a new, neater-looking exhaust end can.
Whether or not the revised bike, and more importantly its paintwork optioning system, comes to Europe has yet to be announced.