HIROSHIMA: Mazda Motor Corp has developed a new body colour called Navy Blue Mica.
The all-new Mazda CX-5 is first to become available with the new colour.
The all-new CX-5 in Navy Blue Mica made its debut at the “Tokyo Auto Salon 2026” (Jan 9 to 11, 2026).
Mazda says it hopes Navy Blue Mica will become the standard shade of navy to be embraced by users for many years to come.
Mazda has a long history of using blue.
In the 1970s, Mazda Blue was adopted as its corporate symbol colour.
A blue shade was also the colour used for launching the first generation of the CX-5.
In fact, the company has offered over 150 colours featuring the word ‘blue’ in the name.
Mazda's Navy Blue Mica is a version of navy evolved from Deep Crystal Blue Mica.
Navy Blue Mica was designed to achieve colour presentation that adds vivid saturation in highlights and deep elegance in shadows.
The development team adopted the keywords, ‘high resolution,’ to achieve this goal.
To deliver colour precision and clarity as well as high contrast that accentuates textures and definition, the team blended a fine balance of different types of mica particles, arranging them horizontally.
This way, design details become accentuated in any weather condition, be it rain or shine.
