Miata Mailing List: October 1999, Message #457

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On 2 Oct 99, at 12:52, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:

> Jeff, Bill, et al,
> 
> I never understood where Mazda got the "Mariner" name for the shade 
> of blue used in 90 through 93. The color was taken from the 
> California license plate backgound (supposedly a corner of one was 
> snipped off and sent to Mazda in Japan as a sample). I've always 
> called it "California License Plate Blue" and have felt that 
> "California Blue" would have been a better name than "Mariner Blue".
.......
Quite a lot of people in Germany call "Mariner Blue", one of the three colors 
that God´s Miatas (how come many people think she has only one?) have 
"Mülltütenblau".

:-)

Werner
Our Miatas have the other two colors