You are right. As much as I wanted to be wowed by the lexus both inside and out, as I'm sitting in the driver seat in the showroom I'm going man this interior feels rather eh to me. The dash is nice but everywhere else is very plain and in a way kinda felt a little cheap such as the the area around the shifter. The backseat did not get any better looks wise. I know the lexus has only 268hp, can you really feels a big difference in power between the two? I wish we could get the white leather but with a toddler I think that would be a nightmare. So we would either want black on gray or black on black as a backup.