Color Focus
Color Focus: Mercedes-AMG Green Hell Magno – 376
If Green Hell Magno looks right at home on the AMG GT R from Mercedes-AMG, that's because it was created to celebrate the car. You see, the AMG GTR spent most of its development time on the legendary Nürburgring Nordschliefe circuit (a.k.a. the "Green Hell").
Color Focus: Porsche Peridot Metallic – 2S1
CODE: 2S1 COLOR DATA: TYPE: Metallic UNI CONTENT ARCHIVE: Racing Yellow SUMMARY: Launched most memorably on the original Porsche Cayman...
Color Focus: BMW Estoril Blue – 335
Introduced in 1992 on the E36 M3, Estoril Blue has become one of the more memorable rad-era colors to come from BMW M. BMW shares that the color was inspired by the blues of Portugal where the Estoril racing circuit calls home. Whether it's the cool blue surf of the Atlantic Ocean off the Portuguese coast or the almost always-clear skies overhead, the reference to Estoril definitely sticks. That BMW Motorsport in both two and four-wheeled forms has plenty of history with the Portuguese track doesn't hurt either.
Color Focus: Porsche Racing Yellow – 1S1, P3
According to Porsche Club of America’s Rennbow color index, Racing Yellow replaced Speed Yellow as the go-to yellow of choice when Porsche includes a yellow in its modern models. Rennbow also shares that, in person, Racing Yellow is a touch more green than Speed Yellow.
Color Focus: Audi Suzuka Grey – LY7F
So far as we can tell, Suzuka Grey Pearl Effect first started appearing on quattro GmbH company cars at the Audi factory facilities in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm during the early B7 RS 4 days. Typically paired with black optics, it's been mostly an RS model only offering here and there over the years, most recently being a model year color palette offering on the RS e-tron GT.
Color Focus: Audi RS Blue – M8
In the world of OEM paint colors, we sometimes see name changes without reformulation. One example is Audi's RS Blue (rsblau; pearl effect UNI; M8; Audi) that is perhaps the most iconic (and likely most popular) color of the Audi RS2 stock color offerings. By the time the color returned on Audi's B5 S4, it had undergone a name change to Nogaro Blue (nogaroblau; pearl effect UNI; Z5M; Audi), but the color itself remained the same.
Color Focus: Porsche Guards Red – Y39
Guards Red (a.k.a. "India Red") is maybe the most Porsche of Porsche colors. No, it's not a quirky shade nor has it got "Signal" in the name, but it is perhaps the most ubiquitous. It seems like half the Porsches delivered in the 1980s could have been Guards Red, a time when it was not uncommon for owners of less desirably colored Porsches to respray their non-red Porsche to fit in.
Color Focus: BMW Zandvoort Blue – C6E
CODE: C6E TYPE: Non-Metallic CONTENT ARCHIVE: BMW Zandvoort Blue SUMMARY: Near as we can tell, Zandvoort Blue (zandvoortblau; non-metallic uni; C6E, BMW)...
Color Focus: Audi Nardo Grey – LY7C
It's funny, there are some colors that become meteoric, becoming so popular that they become iconic and risk becoming ubiquitous. Such is the case of Audi's Nardo Grey (nardfograu; UNI; LY7C; Audi exclusive), a light grey that came on the scene as a standout in Ingolstadt's RS car lineup.
Color Focus: Audi Samoa Orange Metallic – X2U
Believed to be used initially as a launch color for the R8 GT, Samoa Orange Metallic (samoaorange; metallic UNI; X2U; Audi) embraced Audi's heritage for earth tones in the late 2000s, a time that also birthed Ipanema Brown and Teak Brown. This fiery dark orange would later be used as more of a standard color when the first-generation R8 got its facelift, then later on the TT competition. It even shows up on an R8 Mk2 on screen as Tony Stark's R8 Coupé in Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron. As a result, Samoa Orange Metallic remains a popular choice in the extended Audi exclusive color palette.