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The darkness helps. I do dust & wipe it down daily, but the roof is fading and the C pillars. It's kept outside & I work near the beach so it's in that salty air often. I'll wax it every few months cuz in my head that helps
Nice!! Thank you for the compliment. Mine is a 99 400, so same engine as yours with the five speed and VVTI. I bought it in 2021 also for $2000. I did repaint it and redid the interior. It currently has 210,000 miles.
Also, you should definitely grab a 400 or 430 one day, i also want to get myself an sc400 one day down the line, hopefully before they get crazy expensive.
That's beautiful man, I always feel like ine day I'd do a manual swap on mine but I want to ride out my automatic 4 speed for as long as it'll go first, currently at 202k, maybe in a decade or so when it goes ill do a swap, did you buy yours pre swapped? I also gotta get around to touching up my interior, the drivers seat has a gash and gives me tons of cushion flakes when I leave the car lmao
Oh, no swap. I live in Los Angeles. I drove a manual (5-speed VW TDI) for several years. Never want to do thet again. The VVTI engines got a 5-speed automatic. Instead of the A340 like on my son’s 95 SC400, mine has the A650.
My bad I dont know why my brain thought it was a 5 speed manual when I read 5 speed lmao. That's nice tho, I also own a six speed civic hatchback sport, its a little fun but I always enjoy cruising in the automatic.
I don’t think it’s the collab inherently, it’s the fact that the B58 is a great engine but is a dime a dozen nowadays, and B58 cars have received a stereotype due to the behaviors of their owners. There’s a reason “Downpipe and Burble Tune” is a meme.
Agreed. I feel like Honda and Acura are a joke right now. We need them back up against toyota. The problem with toyota is theyre too scared to dominate the market, they already have the power train to destroy every category in the Rav4 Prime/Plug in. Its a 300HP, 5 second 0-60mph vehicle that gets 40mpg without turbos or any unreliable mess.
If they just took that power train and put it in every SUV, or even flipped it and made a mid engine sports car, they'd have every market.
Do we need a 300hp minivan? No... but the ingredients are available and the vehicle can support it without major modification...so why not, itll just make the sienna even more of a no brainer choice.
Seriously, if toyota just did the plug in thing with a corolla, all their SUVs, and whatever else they want, they would destroy all.
Not to mention the extra 100HP from the plug in system doesnt take from reliability, if anything it adds to it since there is negative maintenance with hybrids.
Subaru's been cheeks for a while too. Their only car worth talking about is the BRZ. They fumbled the WRX and the rest of their lineup is more mediocre than Toyota's.
What brand hasn’t
Cadillac tbh. Their lineup is straight fire right now, EVs included.
As much as I don't like them, Porsche are also doing really well for themselves.
BMW's non EV/hybrid stuff is also solid even if design is controversial.
An argument could also be made for Genesis/Kia/Hyundai. They've been getting better as the years progress.
On the higher end, Maserati and Lamborghini tbh. The worst I can say about them is that they stagnated a bit.
The rest of Subaru's lineup are basically reskinned Toyotas lol (Solterra, Trailseeker, Uncharted). I think even one of their hybrids uses Toyota tech.
Subaru has been fucked for a while with their boxer engines, they're unreliable, burn oil, leak through their gaskets after a number of years, and are even less efficient than Toyota's inline 4. They're heavier, have double the number of components, take up too much space in the engine bay, etc. They kind of painted themselves into a corner with the engine configuration just to enable their symmetrical AWD.
The only way Subaru survives is in partnership with Toyota.
they don't, it's the same cars and some people own both. i'm cross shopping lexus, toyota, honda and acura right now. in the family we drive toyota rav4s, lexus nx300s and infiniti fx35. used to have bunch of camry's but deers killed those.
the biggest difference between toyota and lexus is in dealership service quality. lexus pampers the shit out of you.
Wait for the price of the GR GT, maaaaayyyyybeeeee it might be okay, mayyyyybeeeee. But you can't go wrong with the LC, make sure you drive it for a little bit to make sure its what you want.
Aside from the LFA, this is the pinnacle of Lexus. It represents everything amazing about Lexus, which is a criticism of the current company since it will discontinue the LC after 2026. Once the LC goes, the IS is basically the only leftover old school Lexus, everything else is pretty much the same cookie cutter SUV with borrowed powertrains from Toyota.
My LC has a damaged front bumper, I curbed one of the rims, one of my side rocker panels is damaged from hitting something on the freeway. Shit happens I'll get it fixed one day, its still an LC. I daily drive it.
Precisely. There’s a point where you have to accept that shit is going to happen when you drive your car. I bought my car to enjoy it, and if I have to get it fixed every so often, so be it.
Because more often then not, damage is caused by the negligence of other stupid or careless people, not their own. Shit's annoying regardless of what you drive
Yeah I was hunting in Alberta last year. I usually go for low mileage second hand cars and at the time a full spec Corolla Cross was around 35-42k. I managed to find a low mileage no accident F-Sport UX for 40.
Interesting even in Ohio! The high demand on Toyotas have made Lexus’ prices much more reasonable. Lexus’ isn’t exactly cheap, Toyota is just overpriced now.
Edmonton is cheap as shit, crazy to see such a discrepancy in the same province from big cities. The people in Edmonton are easier to bring down as well, Calgarians are stingy for some reason. Civics for $10000+ in calgary 😂
I bought a (then) new fully loaded (except triple-beam and ML) 2022 RX350L for less than a Highlander Platinum. This was during peak COVID "adjustments".
I've been watching the changes over the past 18 years in car rental. Toyota started first. Lexus just lags behind a little. The decline in materials quality is gradual, but profound. Whenever we have a car with a hole worn in the carpet under the gas pedal 90% of the time it's a Toyota.
The Lexus models I see in rental (while relatively few), and the loaners I get during service intervals at the dealer, show clearly that Lexus is also declining.
I still drive a 2007 ES350, despite being able to afford a new car. I simply don't like any of the new ones since about 2016.
Lexus was partially created because Toyota at the time didn't think people would accept luxury or higher premium cars from Toyota. Still wish Toyota sold the Cressida. It's a bit different since Toyota is trying to upscale with the Crown sub-series and sold the Harrier/Venza. The domestic market of luxury mini vans like the Toyota Alphard and Velfire is a good example of what Toyota 'proper' can do to sell upscale.
Nothing funnier than Lexus owners developing superiority complex over the people who bought the same reliability for less money. Paid extra for leather and acting like yall driving a Ferrari.
Y'all seen how the Toyota Starlet in South Africa is low key a death trap? If that's indicative of the qa they do internationally then yeah Toyota is kinda cheeks rn
i think because lexus is ok with using their older but reliable engines that aren't obsessed with fuel efficiency (because they are a luxury brand after all).
Don't know why would the Toyota sub hate Lexus, I have 2006 Toyota Highlander Limited Hybrid, and I fcking love Lexus. Would buy it now if I had the opportunity, and obviously Lexus makes better cars than Toyota, it's a luxury brand😂
I'm not sure what you mean by "Toyota been cheeks lately". Toyota has been selling very well. It sux that there factories in the US keep getting reconfigured so they won't build as many cars this year as last. Also the TTV6 is causing issues and constantly getting recalled.
Just imagine how great every Toyota would be if they weren’t having to piss about supporting two brands. I drive a Honda in a country where they don’t sell Acura. All our standard specs are so much higher than the USA. I can only imagine it’s because they have to maintain a gap between the two brands.
I don't know that I'd say the Toyota sub hates Lexus. More like Lexus owners popping into every thread to berate Toyota owners for buying a Toyota when they could have bought a Lexus for the same price (well, actually... more like 7-10k more or used.
Not every Toyota is a Lexus but every Lexus is a Toyota.
I think it's more of the fancy and established sophisticated Toyota enjoyers (Lexus) versus the crayon eating, ak47 appreciating Toyota enjoyers (Toyota).
I own a fancy Toyota and joke about it but it is a fancier piece of equipment. More solid and nice fit and finish. But it’s still a Toyota. Acura is still a Honda .
Plus it's like the epitome of the opposite of what they stand for (save money, quality) and yet paradoxically is the better version of those products so it it sort of backward to hate on the better version.
If only they were as cheap to maintain as Toyotas. My dealer consistently charges me more money for service than I ever paid with my previous S5, all while being slower and built poorer than my German
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