Miata Mailing List: December 1996, Message #222
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Subject: Re: Metallic black??

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I still have my original purchase contract for our 93 black/tan SE

(Canadian) dated Oct/92.  As I remembered there was a $90.00 optional item

listed as 'Metallic Paint'.  The brochure lists the colour as Brilliant

Black but makes no mention of metallic paint option.  Still doesn't answer

the question - is it really metallic or was it creative salemanship? 



John



At 20:45 03/12/96 -0500, you wrote:

>At 09:20 AM 12/3/96 -0500, you wrote:

>>I was stopped in at the local Mazda dealership the other day, and while Baby

>>was getting all the salesmen to put noseprints on the showroom window, I had

>>a look at one of the three 1996s that they have left on the lot.  They're

>>all black, and listed among the options was "metallic paint".  What?  If so,

>>it's the world's most subtle metallic.  The salesman assured me it was truly

>>premuim paint, but I've heard some pretty creative things sometimes - only

>>the black is metallic, he claims.  Is this the case?

>>

>>Keith and Baby, who doesn't think it is

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>>Page de Home:

>>www.miata.net/keith

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>>Underground Miata Network:

>>http://www.ottawa.net/~tanner/umn

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>Like you, I've never heard of, or seen a Miata with a black metallic paint.

>Honda has some very subtle black metallics.  This sounds like one of those

>situations where the dealer adds one of there handwritten option sheets to

>mark-up the price $700 so that they can give you the "good guy" discount of

$500

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>Sound like you would need hip waders to deal with that dealership.

>

>Jim Tipton

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>94 Laguna Blue, Tan Interior

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John & Dianne Brigstocke

93 blk/tan SE, SSC