Lighting Features Explained

Jan 8, 2003 | 12:36 AM

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Lighting Features Explained

Here is an excerpt from the Press Kit concerning some really cool, next-level lighting features:

New ideas were adopted for the meter illumination logic. Firstly, when a door is opened, the meter panel is softly lit by indirect blue lighting. During the daytime, with the lights off, the indirect blue lighting is activated with a turn of the ignition switch, and the white panel lighting is intensified in small increments. The indirect blue lighting goes off when the luminance of the panel’s transparent white lighting reaches a predetermined level set with the illumination control.

With the position lamp on, the indirect blue illumination is normally on when the ignition is switched on, and the amber-red transparent panel illumination’s red component is toned down to
create a pleasant glow.

Indirect door illumination switch and foot lamps built into the side mirrors: Switches at the top of the door panels are illuminated evenly by indirect lighting from above. To prevent reflective glare of interior lights from the piano black door paneling, Mazda arranged light source locations and directions according to evaluations made in 3-D virtual simulation studies.

Door mirrors are equipped with a bright built-in lamp that illuminates the ground next to the car when a door lock is released on opening a door manually or using keyless entry.

Wow. Those are some pretty cool touches.

Edit: fixed a typo