Got this brand new Fender FSR jazz ash from GC week ago

You'll have more luck posting this on the electric bass side of the board.

 

You might could research GC FSR offerings. Sometimes, a color will be specific for those. Do you see any glue residue where the badge may have been? Last, if you got this from GC new, I'd get them to verify it as being what you think.

 

Why would someone fake an MIM, especially if they're going to use such nice looking wood, in natural?

 

Here's a 2015 model with Rosewood fret board that I recently bought... one of the warmest basses I've ever played!

 

Dude, that's the way they were made.

 

This is my favorite 4-string Jazz!