You know when you are obsessed with the Emira when...

[Evotion]

Every red car I see on the street or parked up, or on TV, I say to myself:

"AH, I wonder if that what is the Magma Red Emira looks like" and even consider taking a picture.

I do this daily. 🤪

[stephenwhyte]

I’d add Range Rover Firenze Red to that list…😉👍

[Evotion]

Yeah, I see a lot of different cars in something similar. Sometimes it annoys me

Then I remind myself that, in the shape of the Emira, it is going to blow our socks off.

Yellows, pastel blues and dark greens are rarer so don't both with them.

[C8RKH]

40 minutes ago, Evotion said:

AH, I wonder if that what is the Magma Red Emira looks like"

Having held the sample in outside light I can tell you it is very, very, close to Fire Red. Stop your wandering and look at Fire Red Lotus and you will be 98% there. It has a very similar, if not the same, metallic flake in it.

[Evotion]

Ha, I think I was the first person to actually show the disc against a Fire Red Evora but it doesn't stop me wondering about red cars. What I have not seen is a Fire Red Lotus moving and how it changes.

I have accepted it will be dark - I already have plans to, er, lift it somewhat.

[Evotion]

Ha, well, how spooky. 

My father has just turned up in a metallic red Citroen courtesy car whilst he awaits for a seatbelt part to be fitted to his new Abarth, topass its MOT. (he liked mine so much, he bought his own - he has waited 3 weeks for the part to come in!)

 

You can guess my first thought.

 

 

 

Taken last month.

[stephenwhyte]

58 minutes ago, C8RKH said:

Having held the sample in outside light I can tell you it is very, very, close to Fire Red. Stop your wandering and look at Fire Red Lotus and you will be 98% there. It has a very similar, if not the same, metallic flake in it.

I thought Magma Red had more of a silver flake through it while Fire Red as we know has a more gold fleck though it. Regardless an Emira in Magma Red will be a great choice!😎👏🏻👏🏻

[C8RKH]

When I held the sample outside @stephenwhyte I am sure the flake i saw was gold   But then I am getting old and my eye balls aren't like they were....

 

[stephenwhyte]

I did the same - maybe we both see what we want to see!😂😉

[Pugwash]

I was told at Goodwood the Magma Red is a three layer paint (same approach Mazda uses for Soul Red). Not sure Fire Red is.  
If you look at the photos of the production line in this weeks Autocar, there are white bodies and some red ones that look brighter than than the reds we have seen so far (to my aging eyeballs at least).

[TomE]

You're right, the cars on the production line in the article aren't First Edition colours.

The Magma Red sample had a gold fleck:

[Kebob]

On topic enough: how does Mazda's red look so awesome?  

[Pugwash]

https://insidemazda.mazdausa.com/the-mazda-way/design/soul-red-crystal/

[Evotion]

Yeah, have always loved that Mazda red.

I suspect the Emira red will feel warmer, classier, richer.

In the flesh I have every confidence it will be sensational.

I am far more worried about coming across a Verdant Green Emira later on and feeling regret I didn't get it!

[ramjet]

Answer to question?

When your name is dEvotion. (see what I did there?)

[Russ]

Driving down the motorway i`m constantly chatting with the wife and daughter about colours and what they think on other cars

Still going for the blue at the moment as i we all think other cars will see us. Don`t trust a lot of other people with a grey car they won`t be able to see easily!!

[Evotion]

Oh yeah, my missus had enough of my spontaneous outburts in the car when were out.

She calls it Car Tourette's.

I feel compelled to shout out things like:

"Ferrari"

"Lamborghini"

"Lotus"

"That's like the Emira red"

"Motorbike"

Occasionally, if I am really being triggered then I might come out with lesser objects such as:

"Poirsche"

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

I remember this old family friend taking us to the Silverstone Classic. “Oh look there’s a TR” he said, as we drove along the A43. My brother and I looked across expecting to see a Triumph sports car, only to realise that he meant a Testa Rossa. Classic British understatement.

[Evotion]

Ha,. I saw one yesterday! AT GVE in Uxbridge. Love it and the salesman preferred over a lot of the other exotics there.  It was actually a 512 TR.

Also there was an Enzo signed by Schumacher in the cockpit and a snip at £2mil. I even sat in it. Awesome, awesome car.

 

[Al]

On 12/01/2022 at 16:23, stephenwhyte said:

I did the same - maybe we both see what we want to see!😂😉

I was in seeing Laura at Parks yesterday before she leaves for pastures new and she was saying that they are expecting the definitive paint samples soon as the 6 samples were all maybe a bit on the dark side. (Don't shoot the messenger😇). Having missed the show car's tour that was the first time I'd actually seen the colours for real and not on line.  Just confirmed I'm glad I didn't go for a LE based purely on the colour choice.  

My mind is made up and I'm not changing that, although ................ maybe if that red was a bit lighter then............😆. No!  My mind is made up. I think 🤔

[TomE]

I thought we had it bad on choosing colours and specifications...

My wife is picking materials to redecorate and refurnish our house.  We have about 25 sample pots of paint, all of which have been painted onto 1m squares of wallpaper to be held up against walls.  Plus 10 samples of wood flooring and about 15 books of carpet samples and 30 or so fabric samples for curtains and blinds.  Yesterday she went back to the carpet shop to cancel the order she placed last week and has changed the specification to a slightly different colour from the same supplier.  I honestly can't see the difference between the two!  And for the paints, they are basically all different shades of what you and I would call "cream"  

[Mctaff]

"you know you're obsessed with the Emira when...."

... you spend waaay too much time nosing around posts on this forum, willing someone to have posted a real picture of a verdant green car!!

 

11 hours ago, Al said:

the 6 samples were all maybe a bit on the dark side

our colour choices are locked in, based on samples of non finalised colours?

I wonder if the verdant green is actually that deep blue in the autocar pictures?!

🤣

Edited January 16, 2022 by Mctaff

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Well last night I actually dreamed about being on a test drive in an Emira and I’ve not even ordered one! Anyway the good news for all you early adopters is that it’s much faster than I expected and handles on rails. So there you have it: the first TLF road test of an Emira!

[gregs24]

On 13/01/2022 at 12:05, Evotion said:

 

I am far more worried about coming across a Verdant Green Emira later on and feeling regret I didn't get it!

But I'm also concerned that it will just be too dark to tell it is even green at all! If it was Racing Green I would already know what I wanted!

[ramjet]

What does the Verdant Green look like in bright sunlight? Still really dark? It does look nice on the configurator.