What do you think of when you think of luxury? What does it mean for something to be luxurious? Is it simply something expensive? Something overly ostentatious? Whatever luxury comes to mind, more than anything else, there will be an overarching sense of comfort involved, an implied ease in its elegance that allows you to experience and enjoy it with total simplicity. This is the essence of luxury.

It should come as no surprise, then, that Fender’s partnership with Japanese luxury car company, Lexus, is chock full of these comforts. But to further mark the partnership, Fender was tasked with creating an instrument that matched the features of Lexus’ LC 500 series, and the results, limited to only 100 guitars, are breathtaking.

To match Lexus’s sound systems configuration, Principal Master Builder Ron Thorn included custom machined brushed aluminum knobs to match the Lexus stereo knobs. The fretboard is Richlite, a material new to the Fender Custom Shop and polished deep blue, selected exclusively for this build given the similar components it has with Lexus vehicles.

Most striking is the omnidirectional Structural Blue finish that, impressively, doesn’t feature any blue paint. Inspired by the color of a Morpho butterfly, the finish is a spectral range that produces light that looks blue only because of the interference of light. Layers of colorless materials come together to generate the ultimate color, hence the name “structural.” The paint on the guitar is the same paint that was used on the Lexus LC 500 coupe and convertible Inspiration Series, of which only 200 total vehicles were produced for the US.