Just for the hell of it, I was constructing an 07 RX-8 on the mazdausa website. Phantom blue is no longer on the list of color choices? Did I miss something?

 

just the best color for an 8 ever!

... well maybe I'm a bit bias

 

Thank God that ugly color.

They couldn't give it away on the lot's here in So. Cal.

 

should be called teal instead

 

no more teal...

 

I still can't believe they got rid of Winning Blue before this pile of crap.

 

I love my Phantom Blue. Granted I would have loved Winning Blue even more. That said, I would have loved Yellow most of all. Sigh...

 

Winning blue looked awesome, but was wayyyyyyyy too flashy for my taste. It's almost like you're asking for people to just stare at your car when you go by, which I think is one of the main reasons that Mazda got rid of the Yellow. It's way too flashy.

The new Stormy Blue, though? Freakin BEAUTIFUL!!

 

And this is a problem how?

Winning Blue was definitely a flashy color, but without being stereotypically so. Red and yellow are too obvious and the other colors are just boring on a stick. I saw a Honda Fit the other day in a Winning Blue-ish type color and was staring at it like I wanted it to have my children.

Oh well, I guess they can just introduce another 6 shades of gray and call it a day.

 

I'm just not a big fan of "over tthe top" flash...the car itself is pretty intense, throw a color like that on the car and it starts looking like you're attempting to get everyone in the world to stare at it. It's like a pimped out civic with the stock engine.....you just want to draw attention without the performance to match.

Drive a Z06 or Viper, and people will stare........rightfully so. But drive a $25000 car with an insane amount of eyecandy with nowhere near the performance and it just doesn't look right. My opinion.

 

Certainly respect your opinion, but our winning blues are not half as flashy as the red or yellow. I am not a particulary flashy person, but I do admit that I enjoy catching peoples eyes every now and then.

I don't think a dollar value should have a bearing on whether or not a vehicle deserves a 'look'. As so many have already said, the 8 draws attention because it is unique. Out here in Colorado you see the same BMWs and Audi's, 350Zs, and Subarus over and over and over and over; The 8, regardless of cost, grabs peoples attention.

In my opinion, winning blue is the perfect balance between the horrendously flashy reds and yellows, and the painfully boring greys, whites, turquoise, etc. I can stand black. But that is kind of boring as well. All of course IMHO

 

LMAO I sure don't know where you get teal from. I own a phantom blue and only in the very early morning or evening does the teal color show and only parts of the car at certain angles does it come thru clearly. Ya'll been looking at the crappy pics on the mazda site.
OH, was I supposed to trash everyone else color choice too? "NOT"

 

I hate PB...

I am glad they discontinued it though, makes mine more rare.

 

all the idiots calling it teal have never seen it in person, just on mazda's site

phantom blue>copper red>stormy blue > the rest

 

thinking your're cool because you live in southern california has become this really ironic parody of itself.

 

I've seen it in person several times.

The name of the color is alluring, it sounded COOL. Unfortunately it does look like Teal and I was disgusted by it.

Don't take things so personally. Color choice is based on one's opinion and what they like. I do not like this color, but I also dislike the old discontinued nordic green too. If everyone liked the same exact things, we'd all be driving the same car in the same color, and that would be far worse scenario.

If anything, you can fault me for buying a "bland" silver, though I have to admit it's damn easy to keep clean

 

MySql....you're dead to me.

HEHEHE

 

no! I meant other people's nordic green, not yours

 

My nordic green is Phantom Blue...

But I still forgive you!!! (e-hug)

 

see, exactly why the color is so wrong (on other people's cars, not yours). and you guys don't even have the silver curse to brag about. See, I'm defying death by driving silver.

 

Lmao!

 

I'll have to go with kane on this one. I have the only one in the city as far as I know.
He has the same B-Day as me. So he has to be right. lol

 

YESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

I rule! HAHA

Us smart, obviously tasteful guys have to stick together.

 

I like the Phantom Blue. But I am a Jaguars fan...

 

Saw one the other day.

Looks pretty good in person.