There have been a couple of threads rumoring that Yellow has been discontinued. Just received a VIN for my order and it is positively listed as Lightning Yellow. Build date is apparently sometime in January '04; don't have exact details yet.

 

Good... I almost bought the yellow. I couldn't believe how unpopular it seems to be relative to the red and gray. It was my first or second choice, depending on my mood and when its clean and the sun is shining... beautiful.

I thought you were in trouble Nubo, but didn't want to say anything... glad to hear I was wrong.

 

I love yellow on the FD. When my dealer got the first two rx-8's in the bay area, they had a yellow and blue. the blue sold before I got there so I ended up seeing the yellow as the first one.

I could not believe how ugly the rx8 was. I hated the car, thought it looked awkward and didn't care for it. The next week I saw the red and titanium and just loved the car. Then I saw the blue and new this was the color for me.

there is something about the lines of the rx-8 that it needs to have a darker color and I think only really small cars look good in yellow. again, this is just my opinion.

 

Hey Nubo, I heard "Safety Orange" was first runner-up at Mazda for a color choice behind Lightning Yellow...trying to appeal to the recreational hunter demographic (j/k). :D

My dealer here had a yellow one, but it didn't stick around long - maybe a few weeks, if that. It was a nice looking car in my opinion (although the wife would never have let me get it). I've been expecting to see it on the road around here (somewhere), but so far I've only seen one black one locally (once) and one other black one while on business in San Diego - all this over a 4-month timespan.

You're gonna have so much fun with that car...

 

MEGAREDS hahahathe same thing happened to me. The first timeI saw an Rx8 at a dealership it was a lightningyellow and I thought the Rx8 was a disgusting car. itlooked like a highlighter. But I later found out it was b/c of the lights in the showroom. When I saw oneon the street a few months ago Ithought it was pretty hot. Butyellow is not acolor for me though. I prefer car colors that are neutral and subtle that dont scream at your eye when you look at them.

 

Now I miss my orange 71 VW bug convertible

 

my dealer offered me yellow for free. ok they we making a point.

seems lots of yellow sitting on the lot. not sure where you are but i just got tit gray dxed for 400 over invoice.

not bragging just confused as to how you get what you want.

beers

 

a dealer I visited had a yellow a/t they were selling for $22,695 and it was still sitting there unsold 3 weeks later. I don't think I could drive around in yellow it just screams "look at meeeeeeee" but this is from someone who had an 84 copper Honda Accord so keep that in mind.

 

The yellow doesn't show dirt as bad as other colors.

I like it - kinda obvious.

 

The individuals amongst the rx8 forum who are comfortable within themselves go for yellow it rocks.

 

arararar :D

I'm not gonna say a thing....

Yes I will. I like the yellow. But I like the red too. If the yellow was a mica, hmmmmm.... might have gotten the yellow. That mica just is so very nice... not to rub it in... I like the yellow.

Maybe I shouldn't have said anything....

Well, but.... ah jeez!

 

i think the yellow would be sweet if it had a metallic quality to it. but as is it's just too dull of a yellow when it's looked at up close.

 

Oh yeah, that yellow/black interior rocks big-time! Why didn't they offer it?!? Maybe with that + mica, maybe I would have gone that way. Maybe not. I always wanted a really sweet red & this is definitely it!

But I do like the yellow...

 

I have a yellow and I must say at first I was a bit dissapointed with it while sitting in the showroom. I had a Vivid Yellow Protege MP3 before and I was expecting it to be more of that color, a bit darker yet still bright. I thought about it a bit and was looking at the Titanium and black but just couldn't see myself in a dark car; plus I always said I wanted a canary yellow sports car and this is close enough. Once they gave me the awesome deal I wanted I went with it and after they cleaned it up and parked it outside to wait for me to drive it away, I fell in love with the yellow for sure! I will say though, I have yet to see another yellow around my area, so I'm kinda unique for the time being!

 

I opted for Winning Blue when I bought mine. At the time, I didn't think Lightning Yellow looked all that great in varying lighting conditions.

However, a few weeks ago I got the opportunity to take a yellow home for the weekend, during which time I parked it alongside my wife's Vivid Yellow Miata. I gotta say, after living with it for a few days, it really grew on me.

Now I'm really not sure whether I'll go for blue or yellow when I eventually buy another one.

Oh, and now that Winning Blue is also available on the Mazda 3, Lightning Yellow is even more exclusive!

 

i like the yellow, it's the color of choice, although i do admit it's not the prettiest yellow. it should be a little bit darker and be metallic or mica instead of solid, but still, i like it. at the la autoshow galpin had a custom painted orange 8. i don't know how i feel about it

 

On a sidenote, Mazda had yellow on the FD only the first model year. on the miata they had it in 92 and did not re-introduce any yellow until around 2001 or 2002. I would not be suprised if this is the last year of yellow.

 

I recall that the first year yellow FD was on the cover of Motor Trend as the car of the year. There is a point to be made about having a yellow sports car.

Oh plus, anyone check out MT's car of the year? I can't believe it. I really thought that MT would again put a rotary back on top as the car of the year (the RX-8!). Looks like the tree huggers have won.

http://www.motortrend.com/oftheyear/car/112_04_coy_win/

 

I think the lightning yellow is the absolute best color offered. In fact, had it not been for that color, I may have passed on the car! I don't quite get the attraction to the boring and nondescript silvers and grays that are a dime a dozen. There are tons of practically every make of car made in these shades, and they all blend together. The RX-8 totally loses its beauty in these colors. The blue is very nice, as is the black. Black is too high maintenance for me. I have yet to see the green, but the car I replaced was green, so I wanted a change anyway. The red just does not look as striking as the red on my Miata. It is just too dark. Also, the yellow Miatas and RX-7s are rare and much sought after. Check out posts on the Miata Forum sometime.

Normally I would not comment on others choices of colors, but there were some rather unkind things said here about one of the two colors sports cars should painted - yellow (fly to some) and red. All others are superflous.

I suspect I will hear a little desent about this post

 

yea damn you SOB j/k. seriously its all good. I was one of the meanies about yellow. It may grow on me again. I love the S2000 and FD in yellow, I dunno its just different on the 8 for some reason.

Have you seen the red in the sunlight? it is the most amazing red i have ever seen. The only reason I did not get red is because I figured everyone would have a red rx-8. I got blue and from what I can see everyone has a blue rx8, LOL. The green you mention is very nice, but I can see in a few years it will get the same reputation the montego blue got (they call it montego puke). As for black? My FD is black and I think black looks amazing on that car, while it looks nice on the rx8 just like you said its too much maintenance.

The reason you dont have have have a red or yellow FD? The Rx-8 is "A sportscar like no other". it doesn't follow the crowd, it breaks all the rules so really you can have any color you want, haha.

For a traditional sportscar I think Red, yellow and Black are the colors. But damn if I dont like the winning blue...its like electric or something. it says high energy when I look at it. OK I am rambling here.

 

Classicred

Hooray finally someone who speaks my language .

I dont bother tryng to argue the colour issue anymore , some people are best kept in the dark .

yellow rocks "Wheels magazine" just voted the RX8 as car of the year here in Australia .

The front page featured none other than an yellow RX8 , THE ISIDE PAGES HAVE A TOTAL OF 12 PHOTOES OF THE rx8 AND THEY ARE ALL IN yellow.

Most magazines have featured yellow rx8 in their articles.

cheers
michael

 

Zerobanger

The blue was my second choice. I do like it. And black is a third "sports car color" as you say. I noticed the change of hue in the red under different lighting. Sometimes it looks good to me and sometimes not depending on conditions. But YELLOW is THE color! I really liked the RX-7 yellow, but it now looks rather dull to me. Miata's yellow was not quite right - too orangish. Yellow,it seems, is a very hard color to get right. Mustang finally has a nice looking yellow and Corvette used to.

 

Lock & Load

I recently added two foreign magazines featuring the RX-8 to my collection. One was the Austrailian "Motor" magazine which compared the RX-8 to the WRX and the 350Z. The RX-8, of course, was yellow, as was the Lamborghini Gallardo in the same issue. The second magazine was Canada's "Sport Compact National" , which also featured a yellow RX-8 in its article.

Obviously all the car experts know what color the car should be!

 

Yellows are all over the car lots in San Antonio. I've seen only one on the road so far (but to be fair, I can count the number of RX-8 sightings in the past six months on two hands).

 

I see several comments that the yellow would be okay if only it had mica or metallic. Funny! One of the reasons I gravitated to the yellow was that it was one of the non-metallic finishes along with black.

To each his own and I can't wait to see what interesting new colors come along.