Mallow Red

Mallow Red (code LY3E) is a vivid, warm pink-red solid from the VW Group palette — a color whose German name references the mallow flower (Malve), whose petals present in exactly this specific warm, vivid pink-red that sits between true red and true pink. The mallow plant has a long history in European tradition as both a medicinal herb and a garden flower, and its distinctive color has been consistently recognized as a specific, named hue in German color vocabulary. As an LY code, it was shared across the VW Group including Audi and VW platforms of the same era, and its application to Porsche was likely limited to specific markets or models. The color's vivid, warm pink-red character made it unusual in the Porsche context, where reds tended toward either the pure saturation of Guards Red or the darker complexity of burgundy variants. Surviving Porsches in original Mallow Red are uncommon, and the color's unusual position in the spectrum makes documentation particularly important for restoration authentication.