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    What is this color?

    Is this individual?
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    Looks like it. It could be a Montreal blue, just looks different due to the lighting.

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    I think I found it, it is most likely BMW Individual Velvet Blue.
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    I think it's just Estoril with odd lighting.

    Notice the Z3 badge on the hatch too, that's not normal.
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    Estoril with odd lighting.

    The photos are from a prototype AFAIK. Then they removed the Z3 logo from production cars.

    Now, they have X5M and X6M... they were thinking like that at first.

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    Looks too purple-ish to be Estoril IMO.
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    Because they were experimenting in that photoshoot.

    Back in time, all film photography. Your photo was a little bit over-saturated. Probably a high contrast positive film, such as Velvia or Kodak Ektachrome 100VS (Vivid Saturation). They tend to drown anything with colors in the photo.










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    Every one of those is Estoril, except for the Laguna Seca with the Phoenix car.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JoshS View Post
    I think it's just Estoril with odd lighting.
    Notice the Z3 badge on the hatch too, that's not normal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JoshS View Post
    I think it's just Estoril with odd lighting.

    Notice the Z3 badge on the hatch too, that's not normal.
    This is what I vote. Knowing the things that color temperature can do to a picture and noting the time of day it was taken (plus, who knows what was done in post-processing), it is probably a normal color that just looks off.
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    +1 on the Estoril
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    Quote Originally Posted by JoshS View Post
    Notice the Z3 badge on the hatch too, that's not normal.
    Jeremy's Coupe of the Day is also an estoril blue sunroof-delete with a random Z3 badge. It has the European hatch though.
    http://www.coupeaday.com/2011/07/11/...storilblack-4/

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