What the consensus on Winning Blue on a 2006 MX5?

[Luke.]

I like it personally, but wondered what the consensus of the forum was as I'm viewing one hopefully tomorrow.

Cheers.

[rfn]

I think they look really smart in "Sport" guise, a la:


As with all Mk3's though, they look best lowered. Winning Blue was my 2nd choice of colour after Galaxy Grey.

Edited by rfn on Friday 26th February 12:20

[Combover]

Go for it. Possibly the best colour for a Mk3, especially with some tasty wheels like Enkei RS+M.

Lovely!

What's the spec on the one you're going to view?

[MX-5 Lazza]

I like the dark red better but that's just my opinion.
The best colour I've seen on a Mk3 is white - only ever seen one though.

[Jonny671]

MX-5 Lazza said:

I like the dark red better but that's just my opinion.
The best colour I've seen on a Mk3 is white - only ever seen one though.

Have you seen the MK3.5 in white with the 20th Anniversary Graphics?

[Combover]

Doesn't the 'Icon' or some other rubbish special edition come in white?

[Jonny671]

Combover said:

Doesn't the 'Icon' or some other rubbish special edition come in white?

Umm.. The 1.8 MK3.5 is coming as a Special Edition in White, Blue and Red but this one thats arrived here has graphics over it.

[Luke.]

Combover said:

Go for it. Possibly the best colour for a Mk3, especially with some tasty wheels like Enkei RS+M.

Lovely!

What's the spec on the one you're going to view?

Thanks for the responses.

It's a 2.0 non sport. Not much in the way of extras, but the price seems good at under 9k with 22k on the clock and new tyres and MOT/TAX til November.

[MX-5 Lazza]

I haven't seen that 20AE but I'm not interested in those at all anyway as they are all 1.8 (what a waste of an opportunity to make something special like the 10AE was).

[Jonny671]

MX-5 Lazza said:

I haven't seen that 20AE but I'm not interested in those at all anyway as they are all 1.8 (what a waste of an opportunity to make something special like the 10AE was).

They look good, but I agree.

Apparently the 'Official' was that they made it the 1.8, to try and make it as close as they can to the original MX-5..

Winning Blue is lovely though, not the most common either?

[MX-5 Lazza]

Jonny671 said:

Apparently the 'Official' was that they made it the 1.8, to try and make it as close as they can to the original MX-5..

10AE was based on the top spec 1.8iS with additional extras (such as 6-speed gearbox) so was the highest spec available at the time whereas the 20AE is based on the base model 1.8 with very little extra other than body colour. They probably just need to get rid of some 1.8 engines.

[Luke.]

MX-5 Lazza said:

I haven't seen that 20AE but I'm not interested in those at all anyway as they are all 1.8 (what a waste of an opportunity to make something special like the 10AE was).

What is this 20AE you speak of?

[Jonny671]

Luke. said:

MX-5 Lazza said:

I haven't seen that 20AE but I'm not interested in those at all anyway as they are all 1.8 (what a waste of an opportunity to make something special like the 10AE was).

What is this 20AE you speak of?

Just like this;

[Combover]

Jesus, that looks awful.

[Planet Claire]

Winnging Blue is lovely. There are so many dark colourd Mk3s about so stand out from the crowd, blue's the way to go!