I've never seen that before. Seems odd to name a car color after a water rat

 

Please! #475. It's a metallic.

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You're out of your league, interloper...[jk]

 

Water rat or not, it's really cool. I wonder how it would look on a wagon.

 

And 12 years later, here is the answer...

 

I agree, that just made it into my top four favorite 124 colors:

Black Pearl (like my car)
Bornite
Malachite
Nutria

 

Bornite looks really good, another one of those unique colors.



Do you have sample images of how malachite looks like?

Nutria is definitely a very good, warm color. Reminds me of chocolate, almost want to bite into it

Could these rare and unique colors be the same as what MB did with the 190E when they released 3 "special" colors in the last year of the model range?

 

that is a cool color, and is an awesome combo with the mushroom leather. I have never seen a w124 in that, but there is a w126 in town, I think a 420SEL that is in that color. Doesnt look as sharp, probably because it is all rusty too. right up there with Malachite as my favorite benz colors

 

As most of you guys do (I'm sure), I'm always keeping my eyes peeled for 124s. It seems that Benz offered some really nice colors, but the vast majority of the cars I see are one of 3 or 4 colors. The early cars seem to be white, smoke silver, navy blue, or charcoal. Didn't buyers think the other colors were nice back then? If they bought them, where did they go? I don't see them on the roads. I don't see them in the salvage yards. Dark green, light green, aqua, burgundy, where are they? I'd like to see a chart showing the distribution of colors over the years. It seems that about half of the recent production Benzs I see are silver. Maybe it's a regional thing.

 

Always looking around for something different. I would love to get my hands on a Cabernet TE with wither the grey or darker red moulding. But instead I just have boring old smoke silver. Bornit with a violetgrey moulding would be nice too. I dont know where all there have gone. Lots of great colors on the w126's in town. Trying to get my hands on a teal blue metallic 300SEL with tan tex that is sitting down the street

 

Very nice and very rare color. I saw it once on a wagon with a matching chocolate brown leather interior. Unfortunately that car "disappeared", otherwise I should have bought it. In fact, almost all nice low mileage wagons are gone....

 

Boy, I would have loved to see that combination on a Wagon.

Was the Nutria Metallic paint one of the paint options on the "special edition" versions of the later W124s?

 

You could special order pretty much any color you wanted on a 124, if you were willing to wait a few months for the car to arrive from Germany. I think that's how this Nutria car came to be... highly unlikely it was a dealer stock item.

I too am sick of the same half-dozen colors on the vast majority of 124's. I would love to locate an E420 in Garnet Red Metallic (Almandine Rot, in German) with black interior, with all options. But alas, I'm stuck with 199 (Pearl Black), one of my LEAST favorite colors (sorry, Casey!). There is a definite lack of blues, greens, and reds out there... 'tis a real shame.

 

[sniff]...

 

Attached is a picture of an estate in Bornite. I wish it was more common. I could only find one in desert silver.