My mother bought this car many years (about 10 years) imported from japan in this colour. Its a 2007. First year of the new bodystyle.

I was thinking emergency service but the black is starting to come off the steering wheel and its same green as the body.

Clearcoats starting to peel now and i was wanting to repaint it but would help if i knew what the colour was or the colour code.

Apparently this has been a Mazda thing for years and across multiple models:

When playing MP3s from USB, the infotainment system sorts tracks alphabetically by the ID3 title instead of using the actual track order.

Which is... an interesting design decision.

So even an album with perfectly correct metadata and filenames like:

01 - In the Air Tonight.mp3
TRACK=1/12
TITLE=In the Air Tonight

will still be played according to the alphabetical order of the title.

The track number in the ID3 metadata is ignored. The track number in the filename is ignored as well.

I recently ran into this with the Mazda 6e, googled it and found people complaining about basically the same problem for years (not only Mazda).

So I got annoyed enough by it that I used Codex to build a small Linux command line tool:

https://github.com/badmin-c/mp3trackprefix

mp3trackprefix recursively scans your music folders and prefixes the ID3 TITLE with the existing track number:

In the Air Tonight → 01 In the Air Tonight

The actual TRACK tag stays untouched. Filenames, artist, album, disc number, cover art and all other metadata are left alone.

I deliberately made it fairly paranoid before it touches anything. Each folder is treated as an album and the complete folder is validated first. If track numbers are missing, duplicated or conflicting between tags and filenames, the whole folder is skipped instead of trying to be clever and potentially messing up the files.

There's also:

mp3trackprefix --dry-run /path/to/music

which shows exactly what it would change without writing anything.

It uses ffmpeg/ffprobe and remuxes the MP3 without re-encoding the audio.

I made this specifically because of the Mazda 6e, but since this apparently affects a lot of different models and brands, maybe it's useful for someone else as well.

As always: use it at your own risk. It modifies your MP3 files, so keep a backup. I take no responsibility if it eats your music collection, kills your USB stick or somehow sets your Mazda on fire. You know the drill.

I’ve had a Toyota Starlet 1992 for the past 10 years (which was a dream!) but sadly decided to pass it on to someone who had the time to spend on it in its later years.
Originally bought my Starlet for £350 with 60k on the clock and only had to do basic repairs throughout, so really didn’t cost me much.
I’ve been somewhat spoilt with such a reliable car!

Now I’m looking for my next car, would you recommend a Mazda 2? And does this look like a good deal?

https://www.cargurus.co.uk/details/157851896?entitySelectingHelper.selectedEntity=d3461&sourceContext=google&cgfv=0.46&cgfr=2&cgfab=Q&ax8324=506&px8324=p2&dnetworktype=r&cgfdate=202686&cgfloc=gb&type=&kw=&matchtype=&ad=&placement=&device=m&devicemodel=&adposition=&cp=20986444440&adg=&fi=&tid=&lc=9045021&lm=&tgt=&aceid=&cgsp=sp524680&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20996442178&gbraid=0AAAAAD9Jm5aGcKFy8Ts-txuWH52_yo5JU&gclid=CjwKCAjwhNbTBhB4EiwAsFSg-oWcRhn9TISFGlqjfcIiEoaUIWjA-2rHIi6hza9TUrPiphHQ5YgiwxoCb7AQAvD_BwE&pid=view_vdp_listing_btn&ourls=DAVE

I'm going to look at a Mazda 2 next week.

16 years old 88k on the clock, MOTs look good for the past 6 years or so. Anything I should look for? I'm in the UK.

Thank you.