OK, I'm jazzed about the configurator being available, but the representation of the colors is bothering me a bit.

Does Dark Silver look a little too light here? Does the Mellow Yellow look a little too Liquid Yellow? Does the Sparkling Silver not look quite as much as Desert Sand Mica as have the photos?

(Also the configurator proves my theory I think that previous "Lightning Blue" sightings have been Laser Blue instead.)

-W-
(Now it's between Pepper White, Lightning Blue, and Dark Silver)

 

I am hoping that the configurator is correct. I was hating Mellow Yellow (mac-n-cheese) but I will be thrilled if it looks more like LY in person.

 

And it looks like MINI forgot the Jet Black for the second year in a row...

 

I don't trust the configurator, really...I had trouble making a meaningful distinction between Chili Red and Nightfire Red...and the difference in reality is huge. So...additional research on colors is required.

Mellow Yellow is great...I think the mac & cheese comparison is (thankfully) a bit off. Mac & cheese is not mellow enough.

I was under the impression that Jet Black was gone forever...or until they decide to bring it back everwhere except North America.

 

Jet black is indeed gone for the time being.

 

I miss the purple....that's my only regret about the R56..is I wish I could get it in purple...

gotta support my Alma Matter!

 

Isn't the GP Lightining Blue? If so, see a GP and know what Lightning Blue looks like.

 

The GP was Thunder Blue. I am surprised that the configurator Lightning Blue does closely resemble Thunder Blue. There is a picture over on MINI2 of a car that is supposedly Lightning Blue, and it is a slightly darker shade of blue that Hyper Blue on the current gen MINI. Definitely doesn't look like the GP Thunder Blue.

 

Man Mini has had waaaaay too many blues. Why don't they just pick 1 or 2 & stick with them. Can anybody even name all the blues there have been since 2002

 

I agree because I still can't believe that Liquid Yellow was discontinued. I still love my MINI, but if she were Liquid Yellow, I'd love her even more. How sweet that would be. Bring back liquid yellow!!!

Greg

 

Not the same. GP looks more gunmetal-ish blue. I also thought there was supposed to be a non-metallic (FREE) blue of some kind for R56, but maybe that's not until March.

Yup, waaaaaaaaaaay too many blues, man.

 

Indi Blue
Hyper Blue
Cool Blue
Space Blue

hm.... hope i didnt miss any

i cant wait to see thunder blue in person... i think its gonna resemble a cross between dark silver and indi blue, somewhere lighter than space blue

damit... its making me want a 07 now.... why!

 

I noticed lightning blue looks like purple on the configurator

 

I agree, LY is a great color.

 

Electric Blue

 

OK, Let me get this straight... You mean to say that there will be another shade of Blue added to the R56 later on in '07?

Where did you pick-up this bit of information and if correct, will it be for the "S" or the Cooper or for both?

Questions, questions...

 

on the MiniUSA configurator, I'm sure they were too lazy to update the proper colors. For example, I'm sure "lightning blue" is actually one of the blues found on the 2006 convertable.

 

Hyper Blue seems to be the best of the blues over the years, though it was not my first choice for my 2006 MC. I probably would have gone purple but it wasn't available for 2006. No regrets about what I got. It's amazing how much the colors vary on the internet, not just the configurator but also pictures posted by Mini enthusiasts. My great fear was that the Hyper Blue would have an aqua tint to it, --much like the blue Chevrolet used for the Camaro in the mid-1970s. Turns-out it is much richer and bolder. Still, I would have liked to see the purple with a silver roof. That would have been cool, very cool.

 

I was at Classic in Mentor the other day and they had a brochure with colors. The Lazer Blue could be a twin sister of Electric Blue Metalic. An the yellow was more Liquid than Mellow.

But then, what do I know about colors. To my eyes dark blues, dark purples and some blacks sometimes all look the same!

....Les

 

The colors from the 2007 PDF brochure are much better:



There is another blue coming called Oxygen Blue but it hasn't been seen yet.

 

That PDF appears to be pretty far off on my mac. I'll need to see these colors in person to really be able to decide. I'm a little baffled why they call sparkling silver silver. It's definitely some other kind of color.


I really with the S came in nightfire Red.

 

Theres one of those here in KC...purple w/ a silver roof and silver stripes...it's very very cool...

 

Hah saw one at the KSU game Saturday with a wildcat plate, but I don't think it was that color.