It should have been red at one point in time

Some people change theirs. Like on here, some people have silver ones, some have green, some have ford logo'* on their non-fords lmao. I might be wrong but I believe they came red from the factory on all the cars.

Many people have cleared them. The red on mine was starting to fade, so I pulled it off got rid of the red and painted it silver.

I thought the SSEi'* all had the color matched dart? One of the other things I prefer about my SE, the good ol' red dart....

I personally like the SE grilles much better than the SSEi grilles for 96-99. Don't like the arrowhead on the SSEi'*. The body cladding is much nicer however on the SSEi'*...

HOLD ON....

some misleading info in this threead

on the 96-99 the SSE, SSEI, and the 98+ SLE all have colormatched arrowheads on the front of the vehicle