Lava Orange?

[speed1016]

Its listed on ebay. A lava orange 2004 mazdaspeed miata. I thought the only colors were red and Titatnium. Anyone else heard of this?

 

[Mazdaspeedgirl]

I haven't.

Anyone else?

 

[speed1016]

I dont think its one that the dealer has painted just to be differant,if they even do that? I dont know, but I like it.

 

[MiataSpeedster]

04 just made 2 colors, 05 has the orange color and black (godown)

 

[rx7gslse]

04 just made 2 colors, 05 has the orange color and black (godown)

Correct..

2004
Titanium

Velocity Red

2005 added two colors, new wheels, and different intereior color combos.

Lava Orange

and black Mica (same color as the Protege 5s)

 

[speed1016]

thanks thats good info, our dealers here only had the 2004 they never got the 05's.

 

[rx7gslse]

Since the fire at the Mazda plant stopped '05 production, those black and Lava orange cars are going to be *extremely* rare...

We're still tryingto get official #s from Mazda, but I'd bet <500 of each in the US.

FWIW, Japan also got white..
http://www.roadster.mazda.co.jp/limited/turbo/

 

[madmerv]

Speaking of the fire....

Do you know what the status is? Are they back in production? I have an MS6 on order, but there's no status yet......

Merv (drive)

 

[rx7gslse]

Dunno the status of the plant itself.. According to the dates given by the original news reports it shoudl be at least partially back up & running.. Mid-Feb was the date given for partial production running partially off of paint facilities at the neighboring plant. Full production was scheduled to resume in April.

However, I know they decided not to produce anymore of the NB bosy style Miatas and just go ahead and replace the tooling with NC equipment.

If my memory serves me correctly, the Rx-8 and Miata were the only US market cars made in that facility, so I don't think Mazda6 schedules woudl be greatly affected.