Are there any Blue Kizashis in Australia?

[Zaphod]

When I bought my Kizashi about 18 months ago, I selected blue from the brochure and signed the paperwork, but a few days later got a call from the dealer saying they didn't make blue any more as "the Kizashi is a prestige car and blue is not a prestige colour". Is this true or was the dealer being less than honest? I live in Adelaide and have never seen a blue one here.

[murcod]

Welcome. I've not noticed any blue Kizashi's either (I'm also in Adelaide), however this would tend to indicate your dealer may have been not been entirely truthful- as there are 2011 updated models in blue. Or do you have the later update where the Sport body kit was introduced across the range?

http://tinyurl.com/kgfpjkn

They most likely just wanted to move stock they had.

What colour did you end up with?

[Zaphod]

Red. Yeah - like that is a prestige colour!

[murcod]

Do you have the the later model (where the sport body kit was introduced across the entire range) or the earlier 2011 update where the models changed from XL/ XLS to Touring/ Prestige?

[Zaphod]

Mine is an AWD Sport. Manufactured Jan 1012

[Zaphod]

2012

[KuroNekko]

"...and blue is not a prestige colour".

Oh really?
I think this BMW M3 trashes that notion. Long live blue.



Heck, I even love the French Blue.

[murcod]

Mine is an AWD Sport. Manufactured Jan 2012

According to Redbook http://www.redbook.com.au/cars/research ... zashi/2012 that would be the MY11 series with the Rockford Fosgate audio system, rather than GPS? So blue was available in MY11- unless they scrapped it mid model or the Sport AWD wasn't available in it?

The red looks good.

[bootymac]

"the Kizashi is a prestige car and blue is not a prestige colour".

[KuroNekko]

The dealer probably said the same line except replaced "blue" with "red" when he had blue Kizashis in stock and some other customer wanted red.