Agreed. Titanium looks much better in person than in the Laguna pics, which represent that colour as opressively dark, IMHO. Detroit pics were much closer, but ya gotta see 'em for yourself!

 

Wish I could see the colors in person before ordering, but no chance of that. Originally ordered the blue, but switched to sunlight silver with red interior after seeing the Rotarynews Laguna Seca pics.

 

One of the reasons is that Mazda only had yellow prototypes for almost a year and some of the members here are just tired of looking at it. I for one still think that yellow still looks the best. Remember that colour selection is so subjective and there are no right and wrong answers however yellow still looks the BEST!!!!!!!! :D :D :D

 

Yellow is only available with a black interior (cloth or leather).

 

Has anybody seen the yellow at Laguna Seca? Does it look the same as in the prototype/promo?

 

How about the Nordic Green has anyone seen a pic, or can direct me a sample better than that on the Mazda site?

 

Do you think Mazda will release different colors and interior's for the 2005 models?

Maybe a nice Black/Titanium interior to go with the Titanium paint :D

 

it is unfortunate that yellow insert is not available as an interior color (but i guess the only color it would go with is yellow anyway). however, the other day i was in a mazda dealer and saw a yellow protege 5 with a custom interior. it had black leather with yellow inserts! and it both looked and felt great, very nicely and professionaly done. so maybe the same can be applied by the dealer or on your own to duplicate the interior of the show car...

 

Best bet would be to do your own custom leather interior (and become one of the ricer boys). :D

 

I can see having yellow inserts in the doors, but the seats would just get too dirty.

 

Or just get the cloth, it already has a grey and black color combo on it.

 

Has anybody seen a titanium car with leather/tan interior ? Does it look good ?

I wanted a titanium with black leather but it is not available in Canada. Thus, I might switch to blue with black interior.

Any comments ?

 

The Titanium show car in Detroit had tan leather interior and it looked very good. I was actually surprised -- had initially thought that the tan leather would not be a good match for any color other than the Nordic Green or Black -- but it looked good with the Titanium -- I actually almost considered changing from all black to the tan inserts. Decided to stay with all black just because it was my initial desire and pre-order -- but I would be fine with the tan inserts with my Titanium.

 

RXhusker is right, the titanium with the tan leather was very nice. I was surprised at how well it went together. I took a lot of pictures if you want to see what it looks like- go look here to see them.

 

thanks for the comments about titanium and leather black/tan.

Halfon

 

My White TII seemed like it was invisible to the cops - wish they were offering it on the -8. Since they weren't... I went with the red! :D (besides, I've got NJMI)

 

Initially I ordered titanium color with black leather.

Unfortunately, in Canada they only have titanium with black/tan interior and really i do not care for it.

I contacted Mazda Canada but they are not interested in changing the color options.

Thus, I changed to blue with black leather.

 

I'm having to delay my (UK) order for the car because the initial colours don't appeal to me. We are getting black, silver, red & titanium in the first batch. I thought titanium would be OK but having seen other cars in that colour I decided against it. British skies are so grey that the car will disappear! So bearing in mind that I dislike yellow I'm left with blue or green in the subsequent deliveries (whenever that will be - anyone know?) and without doubt green appeals the most. Perhaps I'm crazy to wait many months just because of the colour but hey: if a job's worth doing then it's worth doing well!

Postscript: well it's several days later and I've ordered a blue car for delivery later in the year. Nice!

 

Changed from blue to titanium today (after some hassle with Mazda and the UK website) because the blue seems too light in most of the photos I've seen. It's noticeable that the only official Mazda image of the blue (on the Japan site) is heavily in shadow to make the colour look darker. I PhotoShop enhanced it and it looked way too light for my taste. Colours are totally subjective so it's what suits the observer that counts. The car will look great in any of the colours it's just finding one that suits you best that's the issue.

 

Had to be blue. I did toy with the green, but the limited information I could find (I haven't seen a single photo of it in natural light) suggested that it's very dark. My current car is BRG and I certainly wouldn't go any darker than that.

Lensman, I saw your Photoshop job and it looked "overexposed" on my monitor at least. In terms of overall brightness I'd put the blue somewhere between the silver and titanium based on what I've seen so far, probably closer to titanium.