I recently noticed a blue GS300 in the area and fell in love with the color. Its not the spectra blue, not nearly as bright. Its more of a darker blue offset with the beige leather made me regret my recent white GS purchase. Can anyone give me a little more info on this color and when it was made?

As I just said Im new to the GS world. Having owned 7 TT supras, a SC 4runner, and 2 SC300 (along with 20+ other cars) Im sure this one will be fun as well. Gotta start the modding

Thanks guys

 

I dont believe they made 300 in a blue... it was probably painted

 

It was an older couple, doubt they had it repainted but maybe they got it used? It did look very classy. Ill snap some pics if I see it again. It was a 300 with chrome emblems

 

I think I know the color your talking about. Let me find the pics if I can.

 

one of these?

 

Could be. Its hard to get a good image of it so small. With all my looking around Ive never seen this color before, or maybe just never noticed it. I assumed it was probably a color from one of the last production years of the 2nd gen GS.

 

a friend of mine has an 01 gs300, it looks navy blue almost black. it is very close to the dark blue pearl clearcoat you posted.

 

Yea cus thats the only blue available for the 2001 GS300.

http://www.paintscratch.com/
On "How to order" selections, just put in the year and model to find the available colors for that year.

 

If it's a 2nd Gen GS (1998 - 2005) and it's an OEM color then it might be one of the following blues:

Spectra Blue Mica - 1998-2000, 8M6 (brightest of the three)
Blue Onyx Pearl - 2001-2005, 8P8 (dark, dark blue)
Blue Marlin Pearl - 2003-2004, 8P9 (more subdued than Spectra, somewhat gray tint)

 

I think he's atlking about the Blue Marlin Pearl. I was trying to find pics but no luck. I know someone had this color with some chrome wheels and it looked very good but I can't remember his screenname.

 

not a GS but the same color, blue marlin pearl.

 

I think you're right. It probably is Blue Marlin Pearl. I have a paint chip from a Sherwin Williams Automotive Color guide PDF but it doesn't do justice to the color. Lexus of Dayton has a Blue Marlin Pearl 2003 CPO GS430 for sale and the photos show the color pretty well.

 

Bingo! Its a beautiful color in person. So its an 03-04 color only?

 

Apparently so.
For some reason Lexus likes to pull the nice blues (Spectra Blue Mica, Blue Marlin Pearl and Indigo Ink) and prefers to offer white, silver, beige and three shades of black...

Oddly enough, when they pulled Blue Marlin Pearl from the GS, they offered it for a couple of years on the Tundra. In 2006 they still had Spectra Blue Mica (my personal favorite) available for the Tundra . For the 2007model year they also introduced a new blue called Blue Ribbon Metallic for the Camry - it is also very sharp.

 

Check the "blue" thread. One guys has one that is really clean with some Volks I believe on it.