Hi All,

Has anyone ever seen a Nordic Green RX-8? If yes, please post a pic.

Thanks

BigW

From what I have heard, no one has seen one.

Believe me, if there was a Nordic Green picture, I'd be pasting it up all over these boards..the closest I've come is the picture from the Mazda website, now in my avatar, and the paint block on the wall at Detroit. And strangely enought the paint block and the picture on Mazda's website seem to be be two different colors. I guess we won't know till some pictures hit from Japan, or even till the cars get here.

It seems like Mazda NEVER gets the colors right on their websites. "Millenium Red" for the Protege (marronish color) ended up looking like pink on their website for a while.

Good- I hope you're right, and the color block on the wall is the actual color- it was very close to the Montego Blue that came on the RX-7 a while back. Really quite pretty.

I saw a new model Mazda coupe today in a color that must be Nordic Green. The car was not a RX-8 but a rather modest family model. The green was very dark much like the sample colors I saw on the forum from Detroit. NOT KELLY GREEN!
I'll be very happy with my choice if the car I saw today represents my RX-8 choice.

So why the secrecy for Nordic Green then ?

Seems odd for not one single picture to be available outside of Mazda website. Every other colour has attended some show or another....

I suspect that these images are a fairly good colour representation. They've been posted before but nevertheless worth another look:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.white1/RX8/colour_chart.jpg

The Nordic Green Mica paint sample that was on display in Detroit was a like a dark British racing green with the mica gold flakes in the paint. Everyone has seen the pics of the Velocity Red Mica where you can see the gold sparkling out from the red paint. The Nordic Green is like this except with dark green base instead of red. It was an awesome color. When I first saw the color my thought was this would be fantastic with the tan inserts on a Jag convertible!

hey lensman, where did you find those? those look like photoshops done by the same person who did this one for me(considering the backround) so even those might not be true representations unless we know the source of the color

I found it on a thead weeks ago but I can't work out which one it was (try searching on 'color' and you'll see the problem). I seem to remember the poster saying it was from a Mazda site and that it was the official Mazda colour chart. It's possible that the person who did your image Zoom44 used my image as a base(?).

I believe that on the UK (maybe Canadian?) website it says that green yellow and I think blue will not be available in the early production units. specifically, quoted from the UK website:
"Lightning Yellow, Winning Blue and Nordic Green will not be available at official launch time."

Yea I think I posted the colors for someone who wnated to see all the choices. The pictures are takin straight from the japanese website. the only thing I did to them was added the name and put them all in the same picture. However, the nordic green from the detroit show wall was different. It was a little bluer and had a silverish metalic under light.

here it is

That's exactly the way my pictures from Detroit came out- thanks, I thought I was going crazy with everyone talking about gold flecks in it, which I didn't remember. I thought maybe my pictures came out weirdly. Wonder what color it's going to turn out to be...montego-blueish or BRGish? Either one will make me happy.

I am not sure if this one is black or green. but to me, it looks like green one.

http://car.nifty.com/as/newcar/express/expressmagnify.jsp?image=0304091945_3_9_l.jpg

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Yuhki

Originally posted by Yuhki
I am not sure if this one is black or green. but to me, it looks like green one.

http://car.nifty.com/as/newcar/express/expressmagnify.jsp?image=0304091945_3_9_l.jpg

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Yuhki

Wow, good find. That is the first pic of Nordic green I think anyone around here has seen. It looks great...

Originally posted by Yuhki
I am not sure if this one is black or green. but to me, it looks like green one.

http://car.nifty.com/as/newcar/express/expressmagnify.jsp?image=0304091945_3_9_l.jpg

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Yuhki

Yuhki, you are my hero!

That's exactly what I was hoping for!! What a great color!

WOW that looks slick:D

WOW! Yuhki is the man!!!

This came from the new Japanese site (http://www.rx-8.mazda.co.jp/style03.html) mentioned on another thread:




http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.white1/RX8/Green2.jpg

.http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.white1/RX8/Green2.jpg

Yes, but check out the red car in the background. It's not an accurate colour so once again the intense artificial lighting of the show area is throwing off the colour balance. The green will be slightly darker I think.

BTW does anyone know how lensman isolated the pic of the car? you can put the 16" wheels on the car on the site, so if someone knows how, they could post the pics with those wheels.

edit: maybe lensman since he's back online now:o

And for my next trick...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.white1/RX8/16.jpg

ok i am suitably impressed. now how are you doing that? i don't want have to ask you to do it everytime i find something there that i want to post;)

Grab the whole page using the 'PrintScreen' key, that puts it into the clipboard buffer. Find an application that will allow you to paste the clipboard into an image (Windows Paint or ideally IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com) then crop the required bit of the page and save it as a jpg. PhotoShop was used to montage the various pictures above but that's optional. OK?

doh! i always forget about print screen:o

Originally posted by Lensman
And for my next trick...You forgot the Yellow.

You forgot the Yellow

Don't mistake censorship for forgetfulness! ;)

(likewise White & Silver.)

There are more new pics on car nifty:

http://car.nifty.com/as/newcar/express/expressmagnify.jsp?image=0304091945_3_10_l.jpg :eek:
http://car.nifty.com/as/newcar/express/expressmagnify.jsp?image=0304091945_3_11_l.jpg :D

Originally posted by elisemk1
There are more new pics on car nifty:

http://car.nifty.com/as/newcar/express/expressmagnify.jsp?image=0304091945_3_10_l.jpg :eek:
http://car.nifty.com/as/newcar/express/expressmagnify.jsp?image=0304091945_3_11_l.jpg :D

Uhh... eh?

Elara I think you ordered the green so you may like this one. Besides it gives another comparison of colors. I wish I could see the Titanium Grey and the Silver side by side...can anyone post a nice pic?

Nordic Green is in the right corner:


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Originally posted by Maximus
Elara I think you ordered the green so you may like this one. Besides it gives another comparison of colors. I wish I could see the Titanium Grey and the Silver side by side...can anyone post a nice pic?

I did, and after seeing all these pictures, I'm even happier about the color I ordered. I'll bet everyone else gets jealous when they see how great it looks in person :D

Thanks for posting those, Maximus!

Originally posted by Elara


I did, and after seeing all these pictures, I'm even happier about the color I ordered. I'll bet everyone else gets jealous when they see how great it looks in person :D

Thanks for posting those, Maximus!


I am deleting all the pics i just posted here and posting them in a seperate color comparison thread in the Multimedia/Photo Gallery section.

...i've had a 13-week grin since the day i picked my green........

I had never looked seriously at Nordic Green before until I saw a similar color on a 3rd gen RX-7 on my way to work the other day. Damn that was a sweet looking machine. I have a feeling the Nordic will look amazing on 8.

Which RX8 colors do you think have been most over-looked? For me it has been Green and White.

Next try:
white (http://car.nifty.com/as/newcar/express/expressmagnify.jsp?image=0304091945_3_10_l.jpg) :eek:
blue (http://car.nifty.com/as/newcar/express/expressmagnify.jsp?image=0304091945_3_11_l.jpg) :D

yea to nordic green mica! personally i think the green will look darker . . . like the old '92 maxima i used to drive.

i'm sure someone else noticed that sliver of the chapparral interior with the nordic green? verrrry nice.
i like the black/red since it's a "sportier" look, but i kinda like the green/chapparral too because it is more sophisticated (and kinda fuddy-duddy).

For all you Nordic Green orders (Elara etc) I have just borrowed from my Dealer (UK) the Nordic Green Colour Swatch.

I have to say it's Dark (in normal light) but in the sunshine its Mica flecks which are bluey-purple shine through.

It is however much, much darker than I had imagined.

I am going to try and scan or photograph tonight and post on the European forum along with the Red, Titanium and Blue.

My Dealer received these today! AT LAST!

Cheers
Oilman

Here it is, Nordic Green and yes it's very dark

Cheers
Oilman

looks like elara will need to pop over to oilman's to get a better look;)

The following link is for a picture of nordic green scale model which is sent to preorderer from mazda.
http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d31646066

Nordic green looks darker than that model.

In anything but full sun it looks close to black, in sun it realy comes alive, dark but sparkly.... a very sea/algea gree/blue. If I could park my 8 in sun all the time I'd go for the green , no questions. Dont get that much sun here in England though.

I liked the red swatch but a lot of photo's are making it look to light/pinkish. May play safe and go for titanium now.

May play safe and go for titanium now

Nothing safe about it... It takes guts to order such a fine and exhilarating colour! No really!... No?!...Oh, OK then... :mad:

I have seen a nordic green today.
That was in the showroom. And unfortunetly, the dealer was closed today.

The green color looks very very very good on the RX-8.
So those who ordered green, You do not need to worry. I think.

As everyone imagined, the color was close to black.
The rx-8 with the color seems very noble.
I think that is not close to Miata's green. I feel it is close to the green on Alfa.

If I had plenty of money, I would buy the green one for my collection:)

One of the owner is uploading the pics of nordic green.

http://homepage.mac.com/insightex/rx8.jpg

the Green looks fabulous. If only it was available in Canada now.

That's as smart as...err....'paint'. Kinda wish I'd ordered it now.

i've got nordic green !! :p

http://www.m-wm.com/mycar/upload/20030524100900_644_1.jpg

Originally posted by Osamu
i've got nordic green !! :p

VERY nice! This is the best colour for the car and nobody realised until it was too late (well almost nobody: Hi Elara!)

Good choice Osamu! Hopefully I'll be able to post pictures of my beautiful green soon too!

The best part about Nordic Green is that it goes the best with the dark tan leather.

-Mr. Wigggles

seems very nice color :)