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Pewter metallic with a hint of taupe--almost a hint of gold at certain light angles. Good video can be found at You can see how the appearance shifts from a mid-gray to taupe to goldish as what appears to be a late day sun hits it at an angle. We actually just bought a 2015 MKZ with Luxe. My wife isn't crazy about it. I think it's an interesting, novel color, something outside all the silvers and grays that have been popular for years. She says hopefully it will grow on her. We did get the side and rear windows tinted with 35% transmissive film which helped my case with her. The darker windows pick up the 10 spoke wheels with painted creases and the black tires. The paint in the creases almost matches the car's color. Would have gone 20% tint, but I figured that would catch the highway patrol's attention. Our state really only allows 50% in front side windows.

Just bought 2015 hybrid with THX. Dealer played the demo THX sound button which blew my socks off. Thought I was in for a real audio experience. So this is what I found: The system has fine fidelity...sound frequency bands can be set to anyone's preferences. Fader has good range--no problem getting adequate volume in the back, although I found that I had to put the fader about halfway between center and rear to get balanced volume. Bass very good. Better than most car systems I've heard. BUT, and this is a killer: The center speaker volume is considerably louder than the side speakers. Since the center speaker combines the right and left channels, if the center speaker is dominant, it drounds out the stereo separation you would normally hear from the right and left speaker. I don't know about previous systems, but this one doesn't have any DSP settings other than "stereo" and "surround" which do nothing on satellite radio setting. You can't get to any hidden menus (press 3 and 6 on presets, etc.) that I'm aware of. It honestly sounds like a hi-fi monaural system from the early 60's. If a good car stereo system is high on your list of must-haves, this car is not for you, at least not the trim model with the THX system. I have a call into the dealer. Will post upshot.