I was getting tired of not being able to figure out which colors were what/where/when. So I spent a few hours doing the research to bring all the info I could find together in one place which includes the market, the official color name, and some type of sane (non-marketing) description of the color.
Most years, Kawasaki offers the Concours in two colors for each market. There are several markets, the biggest probably being the US (United States of America) and second EU (European Union) and third CA (Canada). In most markets, for most years (excluding 2008, 2010, 2017, 2018 in the US), Kawasaki offered two colors- some type of black and some type of non-black. Who knows why they choose what color(s) for what market. See this thread:
http://www.zggtr.org/index.php?topic=10709I will continue to update this first posting with any corrections and new information I can find. At the moment, the US and EU info should be complete, but the CA (Canada) info is incomplete.
2008US/CA/EU: "Neutron Silver" (light stone blue/"silverdamnit")
EU: "Metallic Diablo Black" (black)
2009US: "Candy Diamond Red" (burgundy-ish dark red)
US/CA: "Metallic Diablo Black" (black)
EU: "Metallic Midnight Sapphire Blue" (very dark blue)
EU: "Metallic Moondust Gray" (medium grey)
2010US/EU: "Candy Neptune Blue" (dark blue)
EU: "Metallic Magnesium Gray" (medium brownish grey)
2011US: "Atomic Silver" (light/true silver)
US/EU: "Ebony Black" (glossy black)
EU: "Metallic Dark Green" (dark green/"forest green")
2012US/EU/CA: "Candy Arabian Red" (dark brownish red/"rootbeer")
US/CA: "Ebony Black: (glossy black)
EU: "Metallic Midnight Sapphire Blue" (very dark blue)
2013US: "Metallic Nocturne Blue" (medium blue)
US/EU/CA: "Metallic Spark Black" (black with reflective flake)
EU/CA: "Perl Mereor Gray" (very dark grey/light black)
2014US/CA: "New Candy Cardinal Red" (light red/"cherry red")
US/EU/CA: "Metallic Spark Black" (black with reflective flake)
EU: "Metallic Graphite Gray" (dark brownish grey)
2015
US/CA: "Candy Lime Green" (light green/"Kawasaki green")
US/CA/EU: "Metallic Spark Black" (black with reflective flake)
EU: "Metallic Moondust Gray" (medium grey)
2016
US/EU/CA: "Metallic Moondust Gray" (medium grey)
US/CA: "Metallic Spark Black" (black with reflective flake) with green pin-striping on sides and panniers
EU: "Metallic Slate Blue" (medium greyish blue)
2017
US/CA: "Candy Imperial Blue" (medium blue)
EU: "Metallic Carbon Gray" (black) with green pin-striping on sides and panniers
2018
US/CA: "Metallic Carbon Gray" (very dark gray) with green pin-striping on sides and panniers
EU:
DISCONTINUED!! 2019 - 2020
US/CA: "Metallic Matte Fusion Silver" (Atomic [true] Silver, but without gloss) but with a "Metallic Spark Black" gas tank and leading upper fairing section (unless that is a sticker), flat-black leading lower fairing section (possibly unpainted), and with green pin-striping under front logo.
2021
US/CA: "Metallic Spark Black" (black with reflective flake) but with a flat dark grey leading lower fairing section (possibly unpainted), and with green pin-striping under front logo and on the panniers.
2022US/CA: "Metallic Spark Black" (black with reflective flake) but with a flat dark grey leading lower fairing section (possibly unpainted), and with magenta pin-striping under front logo and on the panniers.
Attached below is a color diagram supplied by "blue72beetle" (with a few errors on the black models being repeated).