Oilman, welcome back!

yes I LOVED it, and even 2 days later, just can't wait.

I did like the red A LOT in the sun, it was just out of the sun it loked a bit dull. But I guess thats mica paint for you and not metallic.

I'm sure you'll love it, and I'm still sure red and tit are the most popular two colours overall - at least on this forum. I actually don't think there are many of us silver owners out here!

 

Two questions if I may (& welcome home Oilman):

1. Do you prefer Titanium Grey to silver?

2. Can you actually see the blue mica flecks in the red paint or are they too small?

 

You certainly may Lensman

I've still not seen a silver in the flesh, so I can't comment really on a comparison, but I think the Mazda logo and silvery/chrome bits look great with the slightly darker paint, and probably will "blend in" too much with the silver car.

However, as I will be going for max. tint windows on the car, then I think the silver will come out into its own and (hopefully) better than the tit.

If I was to choose again, then I may well be swayed by the titanium though as the strafes look great on the car - I just cant see the silver working as well with them.

As for the flecks, are they blue? Shows how much I know. No, they didn't look blue - it did look very like the "Passion Rose" (what a poor colour name) colour of the Red Mica Mazda 323 (jelly mould shape) that I had new in 1997 though and had for a couple of years. The flecks in that (Adn thus the red 8) look silvery/pinky in colour and really brightened the look of the red. I think thats why the red looks so different in different photos - its all down to the light thats shining on it. I know thats an obvious statement to make as any car will look different in different lights, but hopefully you understand what I mean by this.

Re-reading the above, no, the red doesn't look like pink though, just a brighter, more "rainbow red" colour.

 

Sorry, temporary madness: they're quite clearly GOLD. I had a typo because I'd been reading the Nordic Green thread where they ARE blue.

 

so pinky/silvery is not so far off the mark then I guess

 

Nice one Si glad that you got the drive, I've got a chance to do the same in a week or so.

How did you arrange it? Was it a case of they had one there? I thought dealers weren't getting them in till Oct?

 

Hi Contingo

long time, no speak. It was arranged very quickly. A Number of us got through the post an invite to drive it over the bank holiday weekend literally a couple of days before. A quick phone call to them (although I didn't pre order from that T W Whites, I still pre ordered from that chain of dealerships) and although they did say they prefered non-pre orderers to come and drive it, they did admit that they had got so many pre-orders anyway, that trying to sell more would be a bit pointless! I then got the test drive the next day!

 

glad you liked it