It is not that Gios went to Iran, but Lapis is the mineral that gets one to that blue.
their paint supplier may indeed have used Lapis, so in an around about way, yes.

there are a number of current model cars that have a very high chroma opaque blue.
Maserati comes to mind and surprisingly a few Korean CUV’s.

I would go to an automotive paint store, most have color books that have an oval window in the color chip that one could hold say a fork up behind in the window and compare.

the note about the primer color is quite proven.
Blue, almost any Red, are not perfectly opaque.
if one wants to faithfully copy the F40 Ferrari red, the primer must be a pink.
those clients are fanatical.