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We are putting a small deposit next week for a 2016 Hybrid AWD LTE. My wife wants the pearl color for a few hundred dollars more and the Terra Cotta interior! It's her car so I let her be. I did all the researching though, haha.

We are likely going for the technology package to avail of the Toyota Safety Sense, hopefully for less than $1k.

 

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Does your dealer have allocation info yet? My dealer said he'd call me as soon as he has allocation news, but he didn't suggest a deposit.

I really don't know. I went through a car buying service and the owner suggested I reach out to this particular dealership's manager and assured me I'd get a very decent deal.

The manager said putting a $1k deposit would put me in the queue though he never suggested there were many other eager buyers like me. I suggested to my wife to wait until after winter is over but she wants the SUV asap.

 

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Was just informed by a sales manager that Cinnamon replaced Terra Cotta as the optional interior color. Does Cinnamon look brownish read? Is this a first or has Cinnamon been available on Lexus vehicles?

 

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Also, at least in Canada, LED headlights and taillights as well as the Bird's Eye View are included in the Hybrid LTE (AWD) with technology and TSS package.

 

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I'm not sure, but more brown and less orange would be great!

Like this on BMW?
Cinnamon brown interior

 

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Hmm... not as good as I saw it in my head, but still better than the terracotta

Damn it looks like mustard yellow, albeit a little lighter. My wife decided to play safe and go with black.

 

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Were you looking at the nutmeg pictures? Because Cinnamon doesn't look anything like mustard yellow. This is nutmeg:

Thanks. It does look orange in that pic too, but saddle tan is what we were expecting, so that's perfect.

The plethora of reversed colours - mostly tan with some black - all over the net gets confusing. It's even on Toyota's website for some pictures.

No, I'm in Canada where only black or cinnamon/combo are available. Never heard of nutmeg. We are fine with black.

We prefer solid colors. If it was purely terra cotta (BMW's red) or purely nutmeg or off white / beige, we would have considered those over black but then again, black hides so much of the imperfections (aging if applicable to Softex) and dirt that it's perfect enough for me.