You might be surprised, but it’s in Atomic Silver. Not my first choice for color, but definitely growing on me. Haven’t seen any Atomic silver in stealth PPF, I took a chance and let’s see how it turns out… very nervous lol.

 

it should look very interesting! I think it’ll kinda look like champagne

 

yeah Ill post the result here regardless! We tried one small piece, the matte film seems to tune down the gold in the color a bit, which is what i want. Fingers crossed!

 

Crazy times. Seems more and more like the IS350s are getting the full works from Tahara. Performance exhausts, carbon fiber mirrors, etc. So much for a parts shortage right?


https://www.lexusofsantafe.com/deale...SZ1B26N5052423

I have no idea what’s going on at Lexus. Seeing this though, I think there’s no way that base model IS500 for $57k ever materializes.

 

I agree 100%. I have yet to see any evidence the ‘base’ model has ever made it to our shores. It seems more of a marketing spec than anything else.

 

So Lexus of North Miami has a USB IS500... listed at MSRP on Cars.com. I gave them a call... they're asking for 20k over MSRP. Nice.
EDIT: I see this was already discussed in another thread. Whoops.

 

Still absolute craziness.

 

I am the furthest thing from being a lawyer, but this sounds like a violation of Bait and Switch Law. Could a buyer not bring in a printed, date stamped advertisement and hold them to the price?
Any legal beagles on this thread or is the IS500 too low on the paygrade LOL

 

They can sell the car for whatever they want. YOU DON’T HAVE TO BUY IT. While it may not be good business practice, there’s no law against it.

 

This is true, however;

In Section 5: Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices of the Federal Trade Commission Act, the law prohibits any service providers such as dealerships from misleading consumers. While some states are enforcing federal regulation through fines and penalties, others aren’t.

 

And all states I know of have similar laws deceptive trade practice laws, many that will triple your damages. In cases like this the product would have to be readily identifiable (eg VIN is known on cars.com) and buyer has to show they were ready, willing & able to make the purchase at the advertised price. Texas recently changed its laws, but 15 years ago in this situation you could have bought the car for $20k over and rather easily recovered $60k + attorney fees after the lawsuit dust settles.

Dealers (sellers) are allowed to correct pricing mistakes, which is why you often see notices on storefront doors mentioning mispricings in recent advertisements. So if the cars.com price for this one isn’t changed soon then the dealer is tightroping a deceptive trade practices claim as even after learning of a potential mistake they continued to advertise a price that they had no intention to honor, which is the exact behavior that deceptive trade practice laws were created to penalize.

Biggest exception is real estate (and other one of one items) … listing price is treated as an offer to make an offer, not an offer than can be accepted by the public at large.

 

That's a lot of ifs.

 

I'm finding that this car basically only turns the heads of 20 y/o guys who are driving other Lexus IS's or Toyota 86s. That's been about it.

 

Im 62 and feel like I’m 20 when I drive it, so yeah.
😂

 

Haha, that's a great feeling (I would assume)! Yeah this car gets a lot of glances, but the most serious looks (I'm talking mouth slightly open, eyes follow, and head turns) are from the Toyota/Lexus guys, whose cars coincidentally I also stare at. I still haven't perfected what to do in these situations. A head nod? Thumbs up? No, they should be giving me the thumbs up, right? This is a whole new world to me.