Hey guys, In the latest edition of “Mazda Stories” Mazda have announced a new colour option for the 2020 ND! Fear not…it’s another grey (Polymetal Grey) .
Good grief, how imaginative…
The search for a colour that appeals to no one at all is over!
What a great new colour. Meteor Grey was a nice colour but the new Polymetal Grey looks so much nicer, it must be two or three shades lighter, or at least one shade lighter. Actually I’ve looked again and it’s probably only about half a shade lighter. It is lighter isn’t it? Do you know I’m not so sure anymore.
Come on Mazda, you really are taking the **** now.
Don’t worry, Mazda have planned ahead with another colour that comes through the paint after a few years.
It’s a nice shade of brown, I think the exact shade is ferrous oxide.
I reckon that it’s probably the galvanising that they forgot to apply BEFORE painting!
Already anticipating the sales pitch within Mazda’s forthcoming 2020 MX-5 Brochure - “Mr Grey Will See You (again) Now”
The salesman and I thought we were joking on Monday when we laughed about them doing a primer grey Mx-5 like the CX-3 in the showroom. An uninspiring colour in showroom sparkle lighting. Years ago, I had a colleague with a spridget this colour, he was always complaining people would ask him when he was having the final colour sprayed!
Words truly fail me! I would love to meet and discuss with Mazda the colour palate that they use but I suppose that opportunity will never materialise?
Frustrated but not really surprised of North West Midlands
Jim Keeley
In all fairness that Mx5 above looks stunning if its a light blue. My two favourite colours being light blue metallic and the Soul crystal red. Not sure the white soft top would be practical though.
Mazda have obviously heard that “Fifty Shades of Grey” was a runaway best seller !
I guess the “Mazda Stories” editors were also ‘keen on the colours’ because the article on the 2020 RF is of a dark car, in the dark with faint white writing on a very dark background, so we are none the wiser.
Yes, stupidly difficult to read by old gits like me. This trend for very small text on a barely different colour does my head in. It literally gives me a headache. I know they are trying to reach a younger demograph with this trendy arty print style but should they really be doing at the expense of the older demograph who buy the largest number of new MX5s.
The MX5 shown in Saz’s pictures does look bluer than the Mazda 3 for some reason but the whole car seems to be grey on grey on grey etc .
I think that’s just a trick of the lighting and that it is actually light (You’ve guessed it!) GREY!
It’s hard to tell even with a selection of photos like that, but I think Blue Reflex Mica does “grey-blue” better. Well I would.
As an aside. The tyres in the photo are Yokohama and based on previous ND’s they’re fitted to 16" wheels (I’ve tried to magnify the picture and it looks like 16") and they’re fitted to 1.5l cars. I wonder, does that mean no more 2.0l ND’s, which has been hinted at?
They are certainly 16". I could not quite make out the width and aspect ratio, but I had already noticed they look very undersized in those wheel arches!
