This Toyota is now available in a Mazda colour
01/03/2025 04:00 PM
You may have heard of car brands sharing platforms, engines, technologies and even whole models – with different badges – but the latest Mazda and Toyota tie-up involves a colour.
Toyota has unveiled a new model with a hero colour that will be familiar to customers who shop around before their next vehicle purchase.
The Toyota Corolla Cross small SUV is now available in the US in Soul Red Crystal, the multi-layer ‘hero’ colour of Mazda’s cars for almost a decade.
While there is a long history of collaboration between Toyota and Mazda – from hybrid technology to entire models wearing the other brand’s badges – sharing of a colour is rare in the car industry.
It is made possible by a joint-venture factory owned by the Japanese car makers in the US state of Alabama, which produces Toyota Corolla Cross and Mazda CX-50 SUVs for the North American market.
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It’s for this reason that it is unlikely Australia-bound Corolla Cross SUVs will ever offer Soul Red Crystal paint as an option, as models sold locally are made in Japan.
Similarly, the CX-50 is available in Cypress Green, a colour from the Toyota line-up.
Although the sharing of colours between brands is uncommon, it is not unheard of.
Porsche buyers can access the Paint to Sample program with an extensive range of historical colours – some from other brands such as BMW and Audi – while VW has offered Porsche colours on the Golf in overseas markets.
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