Accessing the "Acquire Ships" person at Earth Space Dock, and selecting a ship to purchase which include variants - Trying to view a variant results in the display of the variant class being reverted to whatever is at the top of the list after 2-10 second. I have sent this information to support for review, they asked me to make a forum post.
This effected all ships I tried to view with variants:
Cruiser > Constitution Refit > Select Excaliber from drop down > 2 seconds later automatically reverts to Constitution Refit without any user input.
Please see this video for evidence:
http://southsidecinerentals.com/untitled.mp4
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No matter what skin you choose at the Ship Vendor, all ships they supply will always be sold in their default state.
Not a bug.
I can confirm that the ship preview window at the ship vendor is bugged the way the OP describes, and it is very annoying when trying to decide on a ship when the display keeps switching back to the default hull before even a full rotation of the alternate hull under consideration happens. Space Barbie does not only extend to characters, many people consider the look of the ship too.