That car is not just blue, it's not turquoise. It's not lapis. It's actually Aegean Blue

"CompactLuxuryFan" (compactluxury) 08/31/2018 at 16:50 • Filed to: None

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Oh. Okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your car dealer and you select... I don’t know... that lumpy blue Civic, for instance because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you drive. But what you don’t know is that that Civic is not just blue, it’s not turquoise. It’s not lapis. It’s actually Aegean Blue. And you’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2006 , BMW did a collection of blue 3-series . And then I think it was Ford ... wasn’t it who showed Kona Blue Focii ? I think we need a hatchback here. And then blue quickly showed up in the collections of eight different brands . And then it, uh, filtered down through the Memorial Day sales and then trickled on down into some tragic Carmax dealer where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the auto industry when, in fact, you’re driving the car that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff.

We reminded of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! when I parked next to a blue Civic this morning (color of which I love, btw) . Now, I don’t know if this kind of bright blue started at BMW but I suspect it didn’t and I have no idea where it came from. B ut car colors do seem to trickle down just like this recently . Most prominent example is that flat gre y that seems to have started at Audi or Lamborghini?

Then eventually the Focus RS got it:

And now the Civic hatchback also kind of gets it?

And then Audi handed it down to the A4 Ultra Sport:

David Baker > CompactLuxuryFan 08/31/2018 at 17:34

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I love blue cars. That E9X is beautiful. This is my 64 Malibu SS (454/4 speed) in Ford Sonic Blue.

CompactLuxuryFan > David Baker 08/31/2018 at 18:05

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Same here! Hardly a blue I don’t like. Currently loving both of the S3's blue options:

Navarra Blue metallic

Ara Blue crystal

Both seem to be extremely rare, however . Yellow and red S3s as well. It’s sad.

David Baker > CompactLuxuryFan 08/31/2018 at 19:52

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Gotta love a fancy Golf R, especially in blue. I wanted a F150 in Blue Jeans when in bought my truck. But found the perfect spec other than color. SuperCab L ariat FX4 with 3.5 EB, 502A ( near Platinum spec). Tu xedo B lack M etallic (much sparkle, many colors, lol) is a great, if your Svend, great when clean.

(Pics, Blue Jeans F150 and my truck)

CompactLuxuryFan > David Baker 08/31/2018 at 20:45

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That’s just how it is with colors and many other options in the US. Dealers don’t stock anything that’s not white, silver, or black. When people aren’t willing to pony up $ 5K more for ordering a car vs grabbing one that’s on the lot, the artificially “low take rate” causes the automaker to not even offer the option anymore. A race to the bottom of the barrel.

Kim Jong - Healthy > CompactLuxuryFan 09/01/2018 at 01:18

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bmw has always had the right idea.

this is a color wheel I can purchase every last one of my cars, for the rest of my life, with.