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Lexus IS 250 Color Combos - Which One Did You Pick?
And was this the one you wanted or is the color you wound up become your 2nd/3rd choice?
I saw the Smokey Granite Mica with Sterling leather sitting in a showroom and thought it look great - wound up selecting that one.
So what did you all wind up with?
I saw the Smokey Granite Mica with Sterling leather sitting in a showroom and thought it look great - wound up selecting that one.
So what did you all wind up with?
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6 speed
sports pak
IS 250
Special Order (very rare)
Tungsten pearl (silver)
Black interior
HID
rear spoiler
18" rims
Personally i love black, but the silver color did the best job bringing out all the subtle lines and details of the IS's gorgeous body.
Black Sapphire Pearl / black leather
Nav, Lux pkgs.
This color has depth and first chance I get - on goes the Klasse and a good carnuba. The weather has been lousy here.
probably wouldnt have chosen it - but was the last one available. turns out we are very happy with teh choice though.
Nav/backup camera
HID Lights
rear spoiler
18" rims
Premium pkg/heated/vent seats/wood trim, etc
its a looker......
Thanks for all the information from K9gal again. It is a lot of help to me, and so to many other friends as well.
Both of us picked starfire pearl, which looks beautiful with the read tail lights, an artistic contrast. :P :P :P
But you are right - there is no reason for anyone to be rude here. That comment wasn't called for. Thanks for overlooking it.
Check out this discussion: Lexus IS 250 / IS 350: Prices Paid & Buying Experience. You may be able to pick up some more information in addition to what you've learned from k9gal.
You can find other IS 250/IS 350 discussions by clicking here. You might want to join some of them.
Good luck - keep us posted on how it goes.
Anyone have a black IS 250? How is that going for you? I know it's tough to keep a black car looking clean and I've always avoided that color for that reason.
It's almost like the car can change colors...
Let's get back to the subject of this discussion which is indeed color choices for this IS.
(A woman I met who had an IS300 with black interior, followed by an IS250 with sterling said she'd never do black again.)
But again, we all may be in the minority. You should sit in both the dark and light interiors and see how you feel.
mmmmmmmm...Now I am gonna compare both of them AGAIN and CAREFULLY!!! Thank you my friends and hope more of you come here and throw your ideas here!!! Thank u!!! :P :P
most dealers said starfire/cashmere is a popular color or hard to come by. there were starfire/black but my friend didn't settled.
i see quite a few starfire/black. however, i think starfire/cashmere is the best combo if you are going to tint - makes a good contrast. a caveat, this combo is quite difficult to keep clean, especially the floor mats - cashmere as well.
if you want the internet salesman, i can probably ask about it. keep in mind that if the salesman knows that you are intent on the color combo and if it's a high demand combo, the discount is much less. my friend could have bought her lexus for much less.... good luck.
From my experience, color choice can be a factor in the bottom line price, as you are likely to get the best price on a car on the lot that the dealer wants to move. There are more black interiors around, but they were unacceptable to me. I also wanted a light exterior (easier to maintain). That really limited my options for deals. Many dealers did not have that combo, several who did only had them with spoilers (another $300+). The dealer who had one was unwilling to go more than 1K under invoice (which would have been $32354). In the end, I paid about $32K for a car that was still on the boat - but I got exactly the colors I wanted.
I also spent a lot of time monitoring the ‘prices paid’ thread on this board. While you might be able to do a little better than I did, I doubt your $31K target is realistic at this time. The best price reported for MSRP 37772 was $31150 (post #1590 by onlinespending), and even he thought it was a fluke. After that came $31500 (#1603), $31800 (#1623), and most recently $31699 (#1695). Two of these were Bay area, two were So. Cal. Only two mentioned their colors – one was silver, one was black – and they both had black interiors. I wanted to get a great deal, but it was worth it to me to spend a few hundred dollars more – less than 1% of the price - to get the colors I wanted.
This would be a good weekend to shop, as it’s the end of the month. If you want to estimate how much better you might be able to do at the end of the model year, look back in the prices thread at the end of the ’06 year to see what deals people were getting. But remember if you have specific color choices, you may not be able to find what you want then. In the end, the deal you get depends on factors somewhat beyond your control – that is the cars available and how motivated the dealer is to bargain.
For entertainment, you might read the hilarious thread on the lexusownersclub.com web site regarding the color "glacier frost mica", a color considered weird by many but beloved by some. http://us.lexusownersclub.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=35635
There's also a thread with bar graph on the popularity/frequency of different colors (from 2006), http://www.clublexus.com/forums/showthread.php?t=202902
but it doesn't include interiors.
Good luck with your shopping.
late.
Now, has anyone else seen the two tone interior with black carpet and cashmere seats? I came across it on another website but I cant remember where, but it was REAL! they said they got it in Utah or some place and that all the 08's had it there.
I'm close to closing a deal w/fleetrates on my 08 250 but after seeing that two tone interior I REALLY want one!! If anyone knows anything about it please let me know, all the dealers around here think I'm crazy when I ask them about it, Thanks!!
The two-tone indeed looks great, if I have my way I'll get the black/gray for easier cleaning/maintaining. Could it be a special order? With a special order you can pretty much do anything.
KC