How rare is a vivid yellow MP5?

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November-6th-2001, 10:28 AM

kappa652

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How rare is a vivid yellow MP5?

Just picked up my car about 2 weeks ago and love it!!!

I was just wondering just how rare is the yellow MP5? I pulled into the dealer lot, expecting to end up with a black MP5, but they had one yellow one that had just come off the truck the night before that had every option on it. It was the first thing I saw when I got out of my truck and I loved it. I drove it about 2 miles and I was sold.

I think I read somewhere that they only were making 300 vivid yellow MP5s in the first production round. Is this right? If so, how can I tell if mine was from the first production round? I'm not real sure when Mazda started selling the MP5...

Thanks,
Matt

November-6th-2001, 12:01 PM

islandpro

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I have seen two of them. and one is still at the local dealership. sitting between two Miatas.

November-6th-2001, 12:11 PM

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i have a yellow P5

I had to wait two weeks for my Yellow P5. It was in Vancouver, BC. I live in Ottawa Ontario. It was worth the wait. There are only 5 in all of Ottawa so far. In the Mazda newspaper ad they use to have a pic of a yellow P5 but they had to change it to red because the yellow was hard to come by. The commercial didn't help. That's what sold me on the Yellow.

November-6th-2001, 12:30 PM

jeffro

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I had to wait 3.5 months to get a yellow one. Mine is the 6th or 7th yellow in Nova Scotia. I don't think there are any more slated to come here this year. I love it!

November-6th-2001, 09:53 PM

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Re: i have a yellow P5

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Originally posted by kreamy73
I had to wait two weeks for my Yellow P5. It was in Vancouver, BC. I live in Ottawa Ontario. It was worth the wait. There are only 5 in all of Ottawa so far. In the Mazda newspaper ad they use to have a pic of a yellow P5 but they had to change it to red because the yellow was hard to come by. The commercial didn't help. That's what sold me on the Yellow.

when i went i couldn't even get red, had to settle on the midnight blue....which is nice too IMHO

November-7th-2001, 08:48 AM

Eric F

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Are you asking about right now, or in the future for collectability purposes? I really doubt you have to worry about the yellow Protege 5 becoming a collectors car. Have fun with it now.

November-7th-2001, 10:01 AM

kappa652

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I was just wondering for now. Believe me, it won't be around long enough to be a collecters car

Two weeks and I've already put 1500 miles on it. It's definitely the most fun car I have ever owned!!!!

November-9th-2001, 12:57 PM

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true dat! F-U-N is what i'm talking about! but...even tho i've heard the yellow is a limited color, it's like a disease over here!

in kailua, i've seen 4 dif yellows besides mine! dammit, there's a guy cruising around my town that looks almost like mine...'cept he had the dealer install rims. decals are similar (altho i'm the only "onehawaiian" here)

suckas. i think there's this old lady in honolulu who's sporting a yellow 5 too. oh well, i'm sure she has a pair of jl 15's and has her's slammed with 18" rims and ****...

maybe hawaii bought all the limited colors...?