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      07-02-2013, 08:55 PM   #1
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Significance of LeMans Blue color for BMW

What is the significance of the LeMans blue for BMW and/or M-Cars? I have been looking around the forums/internet and it seems like many make reference to lemans blue and the M-car history, but I can not find the exact tie-in. The M-car tri color is (lt blue, purple, red), so I do not think that is it. The most early reference I can find to the color is early Corvettes ('68,'69). Any info or helpful links will be appreciated.
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Blue is the color of the ocean. The Le Mans happens on land, which is surrounded by what? Oh yeah, the ocean. So hence, Le Mans blue. True story.
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Not anything specific about Le Mans (that I know of). Many of the BMW color names are derived from race tracks.
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Not anything specific about Le Mans (that I know of). Many of the BMW color names are derived from race tracks.
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There is no significance between BMW and Lemans Blue. BMW have associated many colours with famous race tracks, they might have chosen Lemans for a blue colour, because, blue was/is the old traditional colour for French race teams, like green was to British teams, and red to Italian teams etc.
There's also, Monaco Blue.

Other BMW colours with track circuit/motorsport venue names include, Melbourne Red, Imola Red, Silverstone, Valencia Orange, Estoril Blue, Laguna Seca Blue, Dakar Yellow and many others that I can't immediately remember off the top of my head......

Back in the early 1970's, Ford-Europe did a similar thing with colour names, such as Monza Blue, Daytona Yellow, Sebring Red, Lemans Green, Modena Green etc.
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