Helios Blue Metallic

Helios Blue Metallic (Heliosblau Metallic, code LA5Y) is a deep, rich blue metallic at #1A3A5A that reads as a dark navy-adjacent blue with a cool, slightly teal quality — in shade it darkens almost to near-black, while in direct light it reveals a sharp metallic character. PaintScratch describes it as transitioning from a dark navy in shade to a sharp metallic teal under direct light. The code LA5Y originates from the shared VAG (Volkswagen-Audi Group) palette and appears on Porsche, Audi, and Volkswagen models simultaneously — confirming its status as a group-sourced colour consistent with the transaxle era's practice of drawing from the broader VAG colour bank. It is confirmed on the 911 SC, 928, and 924 in 1980 — a single model year across multiple models, which accounts for the database's one documented community example and the extreme rarity of surviving cars in this colour. The name Helios refers to the Greek god of the sun. For 1980-year Porsche specialists across all three models, Helios Blue Metallic is among the rarest single-year colour entries in the early G-series period.