Dizavis

Alright, so I am looking at getting an rx8 here in the next few months (used), and I was looking at new ones on Mazda's website just for fun. I completely fell in love with the phantom blue mica...so I was just curious...what years was phantom blue mica an option on?

Kane

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Only 2007 that I know of.

PS. Go see one for real, the color is 10000000% better than any picture can do.

HCTR154

I actually test drove a Mazda 3 last week in that color and it is very handsome. Good choice.

TimzSI

Bought my 07 in January. I think PB was available in 06, as well, but I could be wrong. Here she is:

Gambit

Phantom blue is 06 and up

delhi

looks like that green colour model that they discontinued but is now called phantom blue? I like stormy blue. they should come out with the M3's Laguna Seca blau.

bottoms up

i havent seen the phantom blue met. in person but by the pics it looks like mine but mines the stormy blue met...is there s difference?

dontfeedthenerd

Yea the phantom blue is more green looking, almost turquoise.

bottoms up

ok then i have seen it...wow really different in person than in a picture.

CarAndDriver

Check out the Multimedia/Pics forum.

Gambit

they axed nordic green to make room for phantom blue. The PB looks blue or green depending on how the sun is hitting it, pretty cool color

I love the Laguna Seca blue, but I dont' think it'd work on an 8

Dizavis

Hey thanks guys! Very helpful...perhaps I will have to wait till you can get an '06 for around 20k...Laguna Seca is possibly the best color ever, but again, couldn't picture it on an 8

Razz1

Yep very Green. Fine if you are moving and you look at it from the outside.

But looks green from a driver's perspective.

tiggerlee

I still think the Strato Blue is the sharpest color. It's too bad it wasn't offered in N.A.

dontfeedthenerd

That's very similar to what Stormy Blue looks in person.

Phantom Menace

+1! You gotta see this color in person. At dusk, in direct sunlight, and at night. ****, man, even under flourescent lighting it looks nice!

delhi

I dunno. Anything remotely turqouise should belong on in the sea.

TimzSI

This car is the closest thing I can get to a new Montego Blue FD, so I'm happy. The color really has to be seen in person, several different shades of green depending on lighting, blue at other times, with gold flakes that really shine through in direct sunlight. It is way better than the look of old Probe chamleon color or the purple chameleon on caprices and camaros, but of a similar effect. Stop by a dealership on a nice day and look at one.

TimzSI

click on these thumbnails and take a close look at the color variations. My camera is a shitty sony, but the car is clean and the pics are big, and tell me its not sharp looking. :D

Phantom Menace

Its not turquoise...only Mazda's stupid website makes it turquoise.

Here's my (wife's) PB 8: In the day

At night


Now, does it look turquoise to you?

delhi

I guess it looks not too bad at night as it shows more of a blueish hue. Under the bright sunlight it is kinda greenish turqouise colour. Well who am I to complain. I chickened out and bought a silver. LOL!!!

TimzSI

let me put it to you another way; women love this color.

and let me also point out that it is a Phantom Blue rx8 that wins the most recent C&D comparo with the '07 Z, second gen TT and Shelby GT (not GT500). Took a PB to get the job done roight in my opinion. :/ j/k, mag racing at its finest.

Design1stCode2nd

Well here is one guy who love the PB. I like the stormy blue as well. If they had sand interior in 06 I would have gotten a PB/sand instead of my Shinka.

Kane

iTrader: (1)

I love PB, check out Calling all Phantom Blues thread an you will se some of the nicest cars out there... I like my PB the bestestest.

No subjectivity here...

CarAndDriver

I'm partial to Stormy Blue of the newer blues.