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A Brief Story about Lexus
- Thread starter Froggy
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toyota was selling the crown royal saloon in 1988 as a luxury car before the first lexus sedan came along. when the rx 300 suv first appeared at lexus dealerships in the u.s. in 1998, it was sold out day one and the wait line started forming.
Lexus is extremely reliable but a bit boring and some may say ugly
but their latest compact crossover quite handsome
but their latest compact crossover quite handsome
Lexus just can’t seem to get their design right... it is still a luxury ah Pek car
Lexus will be perfect in Singapore, if it is not managed by Borneo Motors.
iconic model
I dont hear much from lexus in the advertising dept etc....n frankly I prefer a subaru. Its more a cult car....so resale better...just my rants
u prefer Subaru Outback or Forrester? other than WRX
BMW is shit quality now. Only engine good, everything else not durable. Service advisors so cocky, want you to spend more money with them for their KPI.
For mercs, got to buy from PI if you want Made-in-Germany.
Other than S Class, most other models, C-Class, E-Class, CLA, etc all from hungary. You don't find much old mercs around these days, for this reason.
Yup...but a car now only keep for 10 years...so as long as last 10 years can oreadi. N for me, a car not needed in singkieland..public tpt is convenient. N now got ride share..things are definitely better in terms of convenience Compared to b4 rideshare. Tat is if mrt breakdowns not counted
RX 300 has been sold for many years before that in Asia as the Harrier.
The IS series is a nice drive and not boring at all. Then there is the Lexus LFA which is on par with most supercars
Interesting, but a big plot twist left out. The LS 400 was their headline grabbing car. All the engineering resources poured into translated into news success, but not necessarily huge sales success for the brand channel as a whole. It was the RX that did it. To this day, Lexus owes it's success to the RX as acai @eatshitndie pointed out. Something like 1 out of every 2 Lexii sold are RXs for most of Lexus's history. In fact, it was the Japanese and their soft-roaders that foresaw this crossover/Suv craze. Long before anyone else figured it out, Rav4s, CRVs and RX's were kicking ass in the sales market.
As an example, in Canada all 10 best selling luxury vehicles are SUVs. Audi sells more Q5's than all the rest of their models. Lexus made the first and for the longest time, the best luxury SUV. It also helped that the RX had the market to itself for quite a few years. The only competition being Infinit's rebadged Nissan Pathfinder which was really yucky.
TBH, in terms of engineering excellence, the Japanese have never and will likely never approach the Germans or the Americans. They're just made 100% better and backed by a better management. You buy angmoh chia got to deal with all sorts of problems. First of all manufacturing defects, especially with American unionized labour. European labour also not so hot. Second, fucked up dealerships, mainly with American and a bit with the Germans. Thirdly comes the chop carrot head parts and service. German #1 culprit. Probably the single worst offender in the parts and service chopping is Porsche. $1k oil change.
Add all this up and in my older years prefer Lexus. No energy to deal with all this shit. But if you want to race a car on highways or racetracks or do some performance related task, I would always lean towards angmoh chia. But I would prefer owning Japanese. Styling is up to each person.
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