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How rare is a vivid yellow MP5?

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Old Nov 6, 2001 | 10:28 AM
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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...

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Old Nov 6, 2001 | 12:01 PM
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I have seen two of them. and one is still at the local dealership. sitting between two Miatas.
Old Nov 6, 2001 | 12:11 PM
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Thumbs up 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.
Old Nov 6, 2001 | 12:30 PM
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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!
Old Nov 6, 2001 | 09:53 PM
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Re: i have a yellow P5

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
Old Nov 7, 2001 | 08:48 AM
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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.
Old Nov 7, 2001 | 10:01 AM
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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!!!!
Old Nov 9, 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...?
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I "heard" 1000 blues and 500 yellows. No idea whay they actually produced.
Old Nov 10, 2001 | 01:37 PM
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Originally posted by MP3-Owner
I "heard" 1000 blues and 500 yellows. No idea whay they actually produced.
I'm pretty sure those numbers are for the mp3. as for the p5, i don't know how many vivid yellow were made. someone? anyone?
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