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AF Chief previously said:
Everyone knows blue is a chemically inferior color. 
Or maybe the white primer makes chips stand out more. |
I believe that they paint the whole vehicle white, and then paint the part from the roofline down in the delivery color. You can feel the edge of the body color paint line.
I don't even have my FJ yet, so pardon me jumping in here, but this might offer some perspective. I have a 2003 G35 sedan that is all chipped to hell on the front of the hood, and on the front of the a-pillars. Back about 2004 or so when it started to get bad I raised hell with Infiniti (lots of other owners were complaining too). The story they gave me was basically: if you don't like it complain to the EPA. Apparently they have had to take the solvents out of their finishes due to outgassing, and now use water-based finishes. They know the paints aren't anywhere near as durable, and so far haven't been able to do much about it. It's a huge problem.
Others with late model vehicles will probably chime in and report little to no chipping, and to that I would say look at the geometry. It's not always a simple matter of verticality, but for whatever reason some vehicles seem more prone. I wonder if you can still get body shops to spray tougher solvent-based finishes, or whether they are similarly constrained.
Fwiw, my G35 was also assembled in Japan. Maybe there is something even more stringent in their codes.
