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- ‘19 CX-5 GTR Tu
I put it on in 2020 when I bought the car (CPO)…car got totaled (few months ago) and when I went to see it it recently…still looked good. I applied 2 coats of the stuff. One bottle was adequate. Use microfiber cloths to apply.
2024 CX-5 US announcement
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I saw a Mazda 3 in person in broad daylight at my dealer with the Platinum Quartz Metallic paint and yes, it's more like champagne, not silver and it looks very nice!
It's like a mix of silver and gold or light sand metallic. In low light conditions, it would look like silver. There's and old saying in French perhaps @Antoine and others who speak the language will understand "La nuit tous les chats sont gris". Loosely translated "At night all cats are gray"
Platinum Quartz Metallic should hide the dirt just as well as silver and keep the vehicle cooler as well. In 50 years of driving, I've had many white, pearl white, white, pale silvery green for the same reasons.
don't forget we don't get the gx trim level down here.
i think the silver looks nice on the cx-5 (and other suv models). it's not a blue or purple tinged silver, maybe a slightly dark silver (grey tinge?). i personally like honda's lunar silver metallic (purple tinge) and subaru's ice silver metallic (blue tinge) better, but the plainer silver still looks good on the mazda suvs. i prefer the red and white personally, though.
edit: i chose a pic of a silver euro cx-5 to show how nice the silver can look in certain lighting; we still get the silver car here in the states, just not as popular as most other colors as far as i can tell.
edit 2: looks like we don't get the silver cx-5 anymore...
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I have owned a couple of lunar silver Hondas and I have a billet silver Ram which would be a great color for a cx5. I have a rhodium white cx5 and it is ok.i think the silver looks nice on the cx-5 (and other suv models). it's not a blue or purple tinged silver, maybe a slightly dark silver (grey tinge?). i personally like honda's lunar silver metallic (purple tinge) and subaru's ice silver metallic (blue tinge) better, but the plainer silver still looks good on the mazda suvs. i prefer the red and white personally, though.
edit: i chose a pic of a silver euro cx-5 to show how nice the silver can look in certain lighting; we still get the silver car here in the states, just not as popular as most other colors as far as i can tell.
edit 2: looks like we don't get the silver cx-5 anymore...
My 2019 GTR is Sonic Silver. It is actually slightly lighter than my son's 2016 Mazda 3 which is Liquid Silver. My brother in law just ordered a Platinum Quartz CX-90. After seeing that color in person at the dealer I'd say it leans more toward a light champagne than a pure silver.
I agree
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My 2019 is Sonic Silver too. The builder image of PQ looks silver:
The pictures of the 90 in this color look nothing like the builder. Totally different color.
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When I looked at the online build, red leather was not an option, only on the NA Carbon. I have a 23 Carbon with red leather, the only color I wanted.
You have to see that color in person as the build sheet images are approximate and pics taken with a phone can alter the color rendition. Just sayin...My 2019 is Sonic Silver too. The builder image of PQ looks silver:
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The pictures of the 90 in this color look nothing like the builder. Totally different color.
ch3no2
'23 CX-5 Turbo Sig
Sonic Silver would have been my second choice had it been available when I bought mine. Shame.
Speaking of silver, I see the '24 Turbo Sig now has silver grille, side-view mirrors, rear "diffuser", and front "chin" trim.
If I needed another CUV, we'll, yep I'd buy it again. That being said, I'll take my '23 with black in those places. My beard and hair seem to be starting to go salt-and-pepper, I don't need one of my cars doing that too.
Speaking of silver, I see the '24 Turbo Sig now has silver grille, side-view mirrors, rear "diffuser", and front "chin" trim.
If I needed another CUV, we'll, yep I'd buy it again. That being said, I'll take my '23 with black in those places. My beard and hair seem to be starting to go salt-and-pepper, I don't need one of my cars doing that too.
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'24 MX-5 RF GT
The silver stitching on the Nappa Caturra leather might be a nice change but the other new silver exterior bits are no improvement...they call attention to areas that look better in black or body color and are going in the opposite direction of other manufacturers now offering blacked-out trim.
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ch3no2
'23 CX-5 Turbo Sig
I concur. Stitching looks good.
Although it didn't quite look like the above color, in 1985 I bought a new VW Jetta. The color was called Polar Silver Metallic and was between a champagne and a silver. A nice color I would have liked to have again.
Not quite silver, not quite champagne, somewhere in between.
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I also bought a new 1985 VW Jetta GLI 1.8L 5-speed manual in “Diamond Silver Metallic”. I liked the color very much which is lighter than the Sonic Silver Metallic on my 2016 CX-5 GT.
I had the GL. A GLI would have been nice but there wasn't much selection on the dealers lot in August 1985 when a company transfer took me to California. The Toyota and Honda dealers were adding 2-3K markup, and already being familiar with driving the Golf version , went down the road to VW. Had been sent to Germany for training the prior year and given use of a new Golf (company car). Found out that the Golf would max out at 180 KPH ( ~ 110 mph) on the Autobahn and that beer was served in 1 liter glass steins at the Oktoberfest in Munich. Travel is so broadening. Oh, to be young again. Welp, time to go drive fast and listen to "Radar Love". LOL. Over and out.
