NEWS: Lexus’ Nori Green Pearl is the new best color

Normally we don’t really report on a new car unless there’s some link to a past model, like a revived beloved nameplate, or some throwback design touches. There’s not much that’s retro about the new Lexus LC 500 Inspiration Series, but its limited color, Nori Green Pearl, is absolutely stunning and quite nostalgic.

Many of us at JNC are part of the green car fan club. Just look at that color. They make these images look like could’ve come straight from the pen of Art Fitzpatrick and Van Kaufman. Luxury cars nowadays are all white, black, or some type of gray in between. There definitely aren’t enough green cars anymore. Incidentally, nori is Japanese for the seaweed that is often found on Japanese cuisine.

This particular shade of green also hearkens back to the many great Toyota greens of the past, like those on early Celicas, Corollas, and Corona Mark IIs (RIP). Of course, it wasn’t just Toyota; olive greens were universally beloved for decades. My parents had a 1972 Chevelle Malibu in this color.

Even better, Lexus paired the color with a Saddle Tan and Black Amber interior that matches perfectly with the exterior. The two make the already striking LC 500 even more beautiful, like a retro-futuristic concept car come to life.

There’s one more aspect of the Lexus LC 500 that is decidedly retro. It comes with a 471 horsepower 5.0-liter V8 that sounds like angels. Our sources indicate that this will be the last of the big-displacement, naturally aspirated Lexus engines thanks to increasingly stringent fuel economy requirements. Lexus is only going to make 100 Nori Green Pearl LCs when it goes on sale this fall for the 2020 model year, so you better get one while you can.

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9 Responses to NEWS: Lexus’ Nori Green Pearl is the new best color

  1. LB1 says:

    Gorgeous color on an already gorgeous car. Glad to see that the Japanese are using their own language to name the color, Nori. They seldom do that.

  2. BlitzPig says:

    Same color as my neighbor’s brand new 1968 Pontiac Tempest when I was growing up.

    Everything old is new again.

  3. Hansjorg says:

    Beautiful color. I would prefer black or green interior instead of saddle. That interior looks like dog p**p to me.

  4. Ryan P. says:

    One of my favorite cars is in green.

    Highland Green.

    Detective Bullitt’s 1968 Mustang Fastback.

    I also like the dark green exterior, tan/saddle interior on the early Mustang convertibles.

    So this color combo is a big thumbs up in my book.

  5. nlpnt says:

    The only shame is it’s such a limited release. C’mon Toyota, make Nori Green a regular no-cost color on the RAV4 and Camry and such for at least 5-7 years so that Duplicolor offers it in spray cans to us car modelers…

  6. Mark Newton-John says:

    Too bad every dealer in the country will still order black, white, or silver.

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