hatchet63

I'm in the market for an 8....Is it me or do the yellows look as good on the net as in person? I was kinda sold on a grey one till I saw one at my local hospital the other night..I sat in a white 06 last summer with my 17 year old son and he loved it.Said I need to get one. And his best friend drives him around in his dads g35 coupe six speed said he liked it just as well!...Yellow with dark tinted windows what do you think?

llzjayarzll

white is pretty sexy

pbuck1

Well I own a 2004 Yellow GT and I love the color . It is noce to drive around and not see a nother yellow 8 around .

canaryrx8

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well duh, yellow is the best color ever, no surprise there

Seriously though, they were only made the frist year in a limited quantity so good luck finding one, you might stumble upon someone who is tired of their car etc, but I have a feeling as time goes on that they be harder to come by (like the CYM Rx7)

ChuLooz

this would be good in the rx8 discussion, anyways i would agree that the white cars seem to always have that unique clean look to them

Cody Red

yellow gets a LOT more attention.

-Cody

TomAssBender

i wish i had a yellow eight, they are the bestest (I own a Ti)

SirZyrion

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i have one and everyone who was nervous about the yellow LOVES it. DO IT.

CarAndDriver

Yellow seems to be a very personal color. Not my cup of tea though.

RX-Hachi

Yellow is one of those love it or leave it sports car colors. I happen to love it. I bought my car new in '04. I was actually going to wait for the '05s to come in, but once I heard that yellow was a first year model only color, I pulled the trigger!

Here's an old thread that you might enjoy reading. The joys and pains of owning a yellow 8.

https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-discussion-3/lightning-yellow-fun-bizarreness-39485/

Rootski

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Stormy Blue FTW

yz007

The yellow on the 8 is awsome with dark tinted windows and mazdaspeed ! I get so many compliments on my car, and never get tired of looking at it. The yellow mazda picked is great. I have my 8 for sale, if you want to see a nice 8 for a great price look there. https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8s-sale-wanted-43/fs-2004-l-yellow-rx-8-gt-6sp-114673/ when I had my nineteens on it it was dead sexy.

funspork

Ask what color girls would like, for a man's car. ( red ) I think is the color girls like the best.
And isn't what counts?

mac11

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i had 4 girls ask "you're not getting a (crappy) red one are you?" when i was thinking about getting a new car.

Ike

Yellow cars are awful IMO. The only time I don't mind it is with exotics such as a Lambo or Ferrari. Keep in mind that many people don't like yellow cars and that may make it more difficult when it comes time to sell your car.

playdoh43

yellow car = taxi
beep beep

tksnobords

only because everyone is wondering why the hell its yellow...hahahaha...no im just jokin. yellow is not the color for me. but im strictly black. black everything. but it is true about finding a yellow one. i havent seen very many for sale. but i did see some on craigslist.

foxman

Perhaps there's a reason for that

canaryrx8

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there is, it's called limited availability

edit: as far as resale goes, maybe the average joe may be a harder sell, but most people will know the significance of the color and may actually pay more for it. The CYM on the Fd is one of the most sought after colors out there and fetches a premium to this day. I'll agree some yellows are nasty, but Mazda did this one right, and I rank it right up there with the Corvette/exotics w/o hesitation. I can't even begin to count how many times I've gotten a thumbs up, a random "nice car" from some stranger driving down the road, just the other day putting gas into it I had a guy start circling my car, it kinda' freaked me out at first and then he was like "I'm just admiring it, that's the best looking car I've seen, what is it?" etc etc. He talked to me for like 10 minutes about what cars he's owned, and all that, it was awesome. Try telling me I'llget that with another color, yeah right. (even if I love all the other colors anyway)

mac11

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you do know that "most" people are the "average joe.....right?

its a small percentage of people that would be "in the know" enough to realize a significance to yellow other than....its loud. it would take someone that knows Mazda and knows the rx8 to realize that it signifies that it was first year production run and limited availability only. same thing with the yellow FDs. 99.999% of anyone isn't going to know jack squat about the significance of a yellow FD.

playdoh43

Ike

The only signifigance to a yellow RX-8 is that not many people wanted that color so it was discontinued.

RX-Hachi

OTOH, yellow has always been a special color for Mazda. It was discontinued on the 8 by design.

1st gen RX-7 only had yellow during its first year, same with the 3rd gen RX-7 (in the US at least), and then only the first year too for the RX-8. The '92 Sunburst yellow Miata was the only year for that series as well. For the second gen Miata, only in '02 did Mazda offer Blazing Yellow as a special edition. The current MX-5 hasn't gotten the yellow treatment yet.

Ike

There are other manufacturers that do the same thing with yellow. It has more to do with the fact that there are very few buyers for yellow cars in comparison to other colors. Making it for one or two years will satisfy the market for the most part. If yellow was one of the best selling colors I bet even Mazda would have continued to offer it.

mike0615

mazda didn't discontinue yellow, they just made it limited.