The Pheonix Yellow Metallic is absolutely gorgeous, IMO. I know a lot of people don't like it, but I love it. I would never get an M3 in that color, but I think it is amazing. In the sun, it has that bronze/yellow look, and at night it's very golden. I think BMW chose to use this color for the M3 over the Dakar Yellow (for example), because a banana yellow type color would just make the car look like a toy. The same goes for the Imola Red...it really is a very dark red, but in the sun it looks amazing!