Colors are hard with the 2017 CX-5. There's no way that red can deal with dust, same with black, dark blue and the metallic gray, especially the gray. The Silver is really shiny. I miss the older silver. This leaves white and blue. I already have a government job so white is out. That leaves the mica blue which I kind of like but blue is, man, it's blue.
When you show up at the dealer they won't have all of the colors (one dealer around here had 3 of them in stock across all 3 trims), unless it's a larger dealership, so I wound up searching online with dealer websites. They do their own pictures of the car and it helps to get a more real picture. That red, which I still haven't seen in real life, looks a lot different in those photos than it does in the official ones from Mazda. And the gray, man it goes off-kilter in anything but a perfect picture, but I gotta admit, in the perfect picture it's pretty damn amazing.
If I was going to get a 2017, and I still teeter a tiny bit on the totter, the only real choice is the Silver. Sad! I blame CNN.
