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Yeah, there should be no ADM in PA. These are sitting on the lots. I don't see any blues in inventory within 250 miles of my home in the Philly suburbs however. They do have black ones.

BTW, I love my Apex Blue so you might want to hold out. My son has the black and it's definitely harder to keep clean.
I think with the blue, red, and TEP you should really see them in person before buying. I really wanted blue/orchid until I saw it in person and it just wasn't the blue for me. It's nice, but a bit too electric for my taste. Also maybe it was just the one I saw in person, but the orange peel on the blue was really bad and noticeable from 15ft away. That's not to say my red is tremendously better. The orange peel on it is still atrocious and the clear is stupid soft. I gently bumped a door on a piece of oak board in my garage while putting my kid in the car and it immediately took paint off the edge... I regret not ppfing the doors or at least door edges too now...
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ADM’s are gone for the ITS. Pohanka Acura in VA has 10+ sitting on their lots at any given time. When I bought mine last November they had 22 sitting there. Many have been scooping ‘25 models for 2-5k under.
 

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I think with the blue, red, and TEP you should really see them in person before buying. I really wanted blue/orchid until I saw it in person and it just wasn't the blue for me. It's nice, but a bit too electric for my taste. Also maybe it was just the one I saw in person, but the orange peel on the blue was really bad and noticeable from 15ft away. That's not to say my red is tremendously better. The orange peel on it is still atrocious and the clear is stupid soft. I gently bumped a door on a piece of oak board in my garage while putting my kid in the car and it immediately took paint off the edge... I regret not ppfing the doors or at least door edges too now...
I really wanted a white ITS mainly because white is so easy to live with and it looks good on the ITS with the black accents and dark wheels (not all cars work with white). But the white car I showed up to buy had peeling paint on the bumper corners and I wasn't about to take delivery of that. Paint peeling is not good on any car, but really not cool when it's still new on the lot.

So I switched out to blue, but as you say, it shows the orange peel much more and many other clearcoat defects stand out too. Once you see it you can't unsee it. I've even seen blue ITS cars in Youtube reviews and you can see the awful orange peel ripples and pitts in regular 1080p videos on a laptop screen. That's how bad it is. Not a color for nitpickers like me. I'll head back to white next time around.
 

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I really wanted a white ITS mainly because white is so easy to live with and it looks good on the ITS with the black accents and dark wheels (not all cars work with white). But the white car I showed up to buy had peeling paint on the bumper corners and I wasn't about to take delivery of that. Paint peeling is not good on any car, but really not cool when it's still new on the lot.

So I switched out to blue, but as you say, it shows the orange peel much more and many other clearcoat defects stand out too. Once you see it you can't unsee it. I've even seen blue ITS cars in Youtube reviews and you can see the awful orange peel ripples and pitts in regular 1080p videos on a laptop screen. That's how bad it is. Not a color for nitpickers like me. I'll head back to white next time around.
I appreciate your realism and sincerity.

I really wish they would have done better. It could be so much more with the large number of body creases, but I suspect those creases and rapid, disparate assembly are part of the cause of all these issues.
 

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ADM’s are gone for the ITS. Pohanka Acura in VA has 10+ sitting on their lots at any given time. When I bought mine last November they had 22 sitting there. Many have been scooping ‘25 models for 2-5k under.
I wish that were true. Piazza Acura in West Chester PA has $20k added - didn't seem to care if they sold it or not. The next nearest AWD is Charlotte NC, that I've found so far.
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