[V8] colors....

[Emy]

My V8 is Opal Pearl effect.
--- Ed Kellock <ekellock at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've never noticed any green component in Glacier
> Blue, but I am
> slightly red/green color blind so what the H do I
> know?
> 
> My 5spd is Opal Mica, which is a bit like gunmetal
> blue.  To me, it is
> the same base as Lago Blue except the green
> component is replaced with
> grey.  In fact, when I bought it, it was mistakenly
> represented as
> Lago.  I have seen (not in person) two Opal 93's for
> sale.  Both had
> blue interior, unfortunately.
> 
> Cyclamen is a rather dark burgundy. Too dark for me
> really as I
> struggle to see it as red in some light conditions. 
> A neighbor had a
> Ruby Red 94 90q.
> 
> I've seen Papyrus and Bamboo, bright red, I guess
> it's Tornado Red,
> but I didn't think that was the real name.
> 
> I've seen Indigo Mica, which is a very dark blue,
> another color like
> Cyclamen that often fails to be recognized as its
> base color.
> 
> Ragusa rare????  LOL, that seems like that's about
> all that's been on
> the market lately.  I would concede that pearl was
> probably more
> common at that time though and sometimes it does
> seem like Audi might
> have invented Pearl because of all the cars of that
> color.
> 
> On 3/6/07, Roger M. Woodbury
> <rmwoodbury at adelphia.net> wrote:
> > In perusing Jeremy's website I found myself
> thinking about how interesting
> > it would be if the number of cars produced in
> various colors could be found.
> > I doubt that Audi has maintained such records at
> this late date.
> >
> > It is common to see black, white/pearl (which I
> think Audi pioneered), Lago,
> > Ragusa (fairly rare); arctic white (quite rare);
> silver and the greys of
> > which Stone Grey seems to be the most common of
> the greys for Audis in
> > general. Also burgundy or some form of dark red
> and rarely I think, Tornado
> > Red, also known as "lose your license red".
> >
> > But I have never seen Cyclamen or Bamboo, or most
> of the other colors.  (I
> > know that Bruce McGuire's '93 was Bamboo, but I
> have never seen one.).
> >
> > Anyone want to take a poll to see how many
> different colors of the V8 have
> > actually been seen and where?  Not pictures, the
> actual cars in the flesh.
> >
> > Roger
> >
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