renegade_si

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!

Lensman

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?

renegade_si

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.

Lensman

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.

renegade_si

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

Contigo

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?

renegade_si

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!

pauljca

glad you liked it