Everytime I see the red interior I begin to salivate !

Correct if I am wrong was the SC only year that came with red seats was 2005?

** Also what is that thing right in front of the shift ****? It looks like some circular guage or something ?Air suspension guage?

 

I think read seats come in 02 05 and 07 special edition models

 

The Red Seats came in the 2002 (I think) Nieman Marcus Editions, the 2005 Pebble Beach Editions and the 2007 Pebble Beach Editions. I think I like the 2005 & 2007 PB Editions the best because it came with the Dark Gray Wood. But the 2005 came with the Blacked out headlights. I would say 2005 PB was the best year.

 

Well said gang...looks like someone's been reading the Special Edition Sticky LOL!!! All that info and more is on there SystemShok.

BTW-I believe that circular guage is either a turbo timer or a air/fuel ratio guage. Perhaps an overseas fancy MP3 face or cd changer or something.

If you are into J-Spec cars, they did offer the Silver, Black and White regular edition SC430's from 2005+ (same as our 2006+) with that awesome red interior. For US-Spec we have the 02 NM, 05 and 07 Pebble Beach as aforementioned. The ultimate is the Eternal Jewel interior...

Have you seen this yet???

http://wot.motortrend.com/lexus-roll...halt-7293.html

Check out the red and ecru or red and black with that offset roof color!!!!

Be sure to look at the Special Edition Sticky at the top of the forum-it's all in there!

 

Yes I saw pictures of the Eternal Jewel a while ago. I like some of the options, but others are just over the top. Did you see the comments of below on the link you provided SCdroptop?? Lol, it is filled with Lexus hate. Good thing I don't let a lot of things get to me. haha.

 

Yeah, there are a lot of haters out there. 90% of the Eternal Jewel announcements had a "good riddance" tone to them about the SC finally going away. I agree with some of the points that the SC is outdated, as many of us do, but some editors/writers took it way too far. Autospies and Autoblog and some others posted similar SC-hateraid.

 

Top gear calls it the worst car made, save none. They compared it to a Hyundai, and liked the pre-Genisis Hyundai better, calling the Hyundai Ferrari like. A lot of people think it is also very overpriced, given that Lexus came out as a bargain basement Mercedes. The best reviews of course come from owners, if you check out MSN. Seems you don't get it, if you don't get it.

 

Like someone said, the red interior was only available in the US in '02, '05 and '07. But the car you posted could be any model year '06+. Japan had far more color combinations available domestically, both interior and exterior. They picked one a year and made it a pebble beach edition in the US.