I agree with you guys. handle, ash catcher and color! The passion for those Kettles is here in this club, not at Weber. I think the new handle layout is associated with the larger Performer Lid Bail. And of course Weber isn't gonna make that many variations on the lid. Wished I was awake to the kettles offered back around 2007. I would have gotten a copper Silver One Touch. Must cost too much money to clean and change colors in their high production sprayers. Wished they would do one Special order run for the club each year.Wonder how much it would cost to build a shop to spray custom colors and bake them in small batches?