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      10-21-2012, 11:45 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Bmwlvr60 View Post
Midnight Blue is my favorite BMW color. You have to see it in person. It's a true blue, not purplish,
What's interesting to me is how color perceptions have changed. What I would call the "Midnight Blue" is indigo, and before you post you said "not purplish", real indigo isn't purplish. It's the dye used for Levi's jeans.
What people considered blue a century ago is what we call azure now.
There's also a shift towards considering orange to be yellow. Yellow light and yellow cab? No, the traffic light is amber and the cab is orange like an orange, not yellow like a lemon.

That said, I looked at (and drove) a midnight blue model at the dealer, but found the color shifting too distracting. Depending on the light, it changed color between teal and dark blue. I prefer the Le Mans and Deep Sea blues because they're just blue, no shifts. So my observations clearly differ from yours, and that's okay

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