I learned a lot about paint through this exercise, and still wound up with no explanation as to why is Dupont is offering two different versions for this paint. The most common possibilities I heard were that they may have had or been preparing for a shortage of one or more of the ingredients in the original formula, they may have upgraded the paint for something, there may have been a slight difference in the formula depending on what plant the cars were produced at.

In short, I have no clue. This is the paint that we can get the best price on, so I am hoping to get samples of the two colors and pick the one I like the best. They are both the chromabase line up, so they are good quality. I am sure they are not that far off from each other in appearance though.