Merlot red - good or bad?

[Pondy]

I always tried to get that space as nobody could park on the driver's side, so I could always get the door open!

There was no access to the trolley park this side of the yellow post because of the kerb you can see at the base of the sign-post.

The yellow posts got installed to support gates they closed outside of store opening hours to stop lairy drivers of Ford shopping trolleys with a turbo leaving black lines everywhere!

Yeah. Yada yada yada. The picture still looks like shopping trolley parking.

 

[Mr Tidy]

Yeah. Yada yada yada. The picture still looks like shopping trolley parking.

Looks can be deceiving though - sometimes a Z3 can look like a Ferrari.

 

[Pondy]

Looks can be deceiving though - sometimes a Z3 can look like a Ferrari.

Touche!

 

[Vornwend]

I didn't particularly seek Merlot out but I do think it suits the car very well, especially with beige leather

 

[gcsa]

I think it's a great colour, and a shame BMW dropped it for the facelift Z4s.

But sadly your photo doesn't really do it justice. Some years ago I parked my Coupe next to one and I think this photo is closer to how it looks in the metal.

Yeah you are totally right - my crappy phone overexposed the image and the colour-hue was off. Bit of gentle persuasion I managed to bring it back to how it probably should look:

 

[CliveN]

We have a Merlot (not us a local) here in Costa del sol. It looks really good. I will snap it when I next bump into it

 

[gcsa]

We have a Merlot (not us a local) here in Costa del sol. It looks really good. I will snap it when I next bump into it

Erm, hopefully not a literal bump lol

 

[GG_Gramps]

I didn't particularly seek Merlot out but I do think it suits the car very well, especially with beige leather

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That is a lovely low mileage example, mine is sat on 141k and personally I think Merlot is stunning and suits the car really well.

 

[matsmith749]

Not sure if it's an age thing, but a really clean sparkly muddy red (is that merlot) really appeals to me on a convertible. I think it just triggers memories of vintage ferrari... something like that.

So I think I'm a fan - but has to be sparkly clean.

Not a fan on bigger cars (don't know why).

 

[gcsa]

Not sure if it's an age thing, but a really clean sparkly muddy red (is that merlot) really appeals to me on a convertible. I think it just triggers memories of vintage ferrari... something like that.

So I think I'm a fan - but has to be sparkly clean.

Not a fan on bigger cars (don't know why).

Muddy red? Muddy red? How very dare you lol. Actually reminded me I had a Russet Brown MG BGT back in the 90's. Awful colour really (I regularly referred to it as 'turd brown'), but I got a good deal and low mileage and she was a lovely car, never let me down and cost peanuts to run.

EDIT: I forgot about the overdrive which had a habit of disengaging, and re-engaging, as and when it felt like it. Turned out to be a corroded switch in the gearstick.