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Borealis and Forest Green colors will not be available at R2 launch.


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At 14:15 in the below video, the employee discusses colors and appears to indicate Borealis as a “later” color, has anyone heard or seen anything to support or contradict this? It’s weird a color they explicitly said they made just for R2 to be a non-launch option.

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According to Reddit Borealis and forest green will not be offered at launch
 

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According to Reddit Borealis and forest green will not be offered at launch
If that is true, then there will be only two colors Catalina Cove and Launch Green with the remaining color between white and black. That is crazy.

I do hope the color choices are better with the R3X.
 

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According to Reddit Borealis and forest green will not be offered at launch
So you're telling me the exterior and interior color I want, the only reason I was getting a Launch edition to begin with, aren't available right off the back... that's just cruel. Heck if Borealis wasn't only on performance, I'd go premium.
 

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I'm not hearing that at all in the video. Seems like he is just pulling colors out of the air and initially missed a few. He states launch is performance with black interior and a few extra goodies.....
 

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It's not available for employees to order, right now. I have no insight on when it will be available.
 

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Good info thanks. That was my color of choice although launch green is good too.
 

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Yeah according to RivianTrackr (https://riviantrackr.com/news/the-rivian-r2-options-you-cant-get-at-launch/), Borealis and Forest Green will not be available right away.

I don't think the R2 is meant to be for me. No Red Canyon. Ok, I'll live. No white interior at launch. Ok...I'll go black, but only with Forest Green. Forest Green not available for launch either. I have been wondering why no Forest Green R2s have showed up, so I guess that answers that. Where is Esker Silver though?

I hope Rivian provides some good clarity when the configurator is released. With the Volvo EX60, Mercedes Benz GLC EV and BMW iX3 making their way here as well, Rivian will need way more than hype to keep the reservation conversations high.
 

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So you're telling me the exterior and interior color I want, the only reason I was getting a Launch edition to begin with, aren't available right off the back... that's just cruel. Heck if Borealis wasn't only on performance, I'd go premium.
kinda in the same boat. We have our heart set on one of the greens. If we aren’t offered a LE, we might as well wait for the forest green premium
 

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If that is true, then there will be only two colors Catalina Cove and Launch Green with the remaining color between white and black. That is crazy.

I do hope the color choices are better with the R3X.
There's also the Silver and Grey at launch. Sounds like end of this year yet we'll see other colors and the coastal cloud interior.
 

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Yeah according to RivianTrackr (https://riviantrackr.com/news/the-rivian-r2-options-you-cant-get-at-launch/), Borealis and Forest Green will not be available right away.

I don't think the R2 is meant to be for me. No Red Canyon. Ok, I'll live. No white interior at launch. Ok...I'll go black, but only with Forest Green. Forest Green not available for launch either. I have been wondering why no Forest Green R2s have showed up, so I guess that answers that. Where is Esker Silver though?

I hope Rivian provides some good clarity when the configurator is released. With the Volvo EX60, Mercedes Benz GLC EV and BMW iX3 making their way here as well, Rivian will need way more than hype to keep the reservation conversations high.
What if they offer Forest Green with White interior with Launch edition but it comes in like September?
 

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What if they offer Forest Green with White interior with Launch edition but it comes in like September?
Don't tease me like that.

I think we just need a timeline from Rivian. If they are saying late 2026 for those colors, I'm likely looking elsewhere. Late would mean December given how much they been stretching their timelines. If they say Fall of 2026, then maybe, as that could still mean November and longer than I would like to wait.

It all just depends. I think my patience is for September/October. Anything past that, the other competitors should be up and running here and I would have likely gone to one of them at that point.
 

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There's also the Silver and Grey at launch. Sounds like end of this year yet we'll see other colors and the coastal cloud interior.
I should have clarify, Esker Silver and Half Moon Grey are variation between Glacier white and Midnight Black. One could argue all 4 are a lack of color, like turning off color on your color printer to print a picture. :)
 

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That's weird to me that Borealis won't be a launch color. It has been in production already on the R1s. I wonder if there is some behind the scenes technical reason for that. Even though it was always touted as a short term color option, two months always seemed to me way too short of a time for it to have been available on the R1s.
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