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      10-24-2020, 11:46 PM   #98
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Portimao and Tanzanite are very different in person. Tanzanite generally comes across very dark, near black. The blues in it come out under very directly reflected light. Great color, but surprisingly blackish in person. Portimao is unmistakably blue all the time. Estriol is a great blue, but appears on tons and tons of non-M cars.
I was at a dealer today and saw Portimao on a 340. Nice color. Certainly only a slight variation on estoril, but still a nice color. I wish they had a few more M only color choices. I can see how Portimao is different than the darkness that I picture Tanzanite being.
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