Recent content by mikeavelli

This hurts bad…….

It’s wild to me Honda just was scared to fight this car and went the lame route. Wild. Props to Toyota and Subie

We finished 10th and 11th. Been working with the team for 5 years now. This is the last dance till GR…

Daytona

By luck I had a new RX 500h press car and a brand new RX 350 fwd loaner from Hennessy Gwinnett. 22 minutes of me comparing the two. Cliffs, the 500h is absolutely worth the money over the 350 fwd unless you really just want a basic sensible Lexus.

I wish the LFA was coming with the V-8. Then more I look at it the more i’m falling for it. The GR looks more brutal and very SLS with the loooong hood. Hey we got coupes coming :) I’m just priced out :(

With the RDX gone they currently have 3 models. The are largely irrelevant.

A friends in Atlanta

Wow that’s wild. Lexus was pretty odd with the GS. The 1st gen was large for its class about 195” long. The shrunk it to 189” for the second gen which continued 3/4th. GS F is longer due to front overhang, While the 4th gen was nimble it was a few inches shorter than the competitors which grew.

Another thing we don’t talk about enough is how beautiful the 500 is. It hasn’t aged a day.

Linked up with @Gecko . Always great convo

I guess technically bamboo isn’t wood so it must be some plastic layer under it. I’m not sure what to think tho. Seemed fine when I saw it, MUCH better than the plastic in the 14-25 models

@Gecko an absolutely wonderful read. I don’t think I disagree with anything, I also feel strongly the IS 500 is the spiritual successor to the beloved GS 400. Very well written and thought out and the owner perspective ads that special sauce.

What’s surprising is the TX is USA only but the chief engineer is from Japan. I would have thought someone here would have led it. Large Lexus SUV, dealers have been begging for decades and they got it and they were right. Grand slam. The MDX barely sold 40k units a substantial decrease and...

I mean that is what matters. No one can deny the results. TX sold 60k units. 7k in December. Unreal