If You Were Replacing Your Lexus Now...

[SW03ES]

If you were replacing your Lexus now, what kind of car would you replace it with?

[SW03ES]

If it were me it would be a contest between:

LS430 Modern Luxury package

BMW 530i/545i

Cadillac STS

2006 GS300AWD/GS430 (providing it were out)

[blake918]

What a great question!! I would go for the Mercury w/ black aniline, '05 LS430 UL because it has 44" of front legroom...that's more than the Town Car I was comparing it to. Until I come up wth $75k for this car, my old '95 will have to do! B)

[Matthew_McNally]

If you were replacing your Lexus now, what kind of car would you replace it with?

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got the GS430 a few months back - so, wouldn't change it at the moment - love it!

I would take a really close look at the new GS430

[SW03ES]

I definately will. What I really want is a new LS but I'm going to wait until I see some pictures of the new 07 body style so I can see if I want to wait for it. I'm still happy with my ES I'd just like something a little bigger at times.

[vcv10guy]

Hmm... if money was no object I'd get a Black Oynx LS430 w/ UL package. Since I don't have kind of money, I'm seriously considering getting a CPO GS300 w/ the navigation package. Hopefully I can get my hands on one this summer.

[VGR]

I'd get the base model '05 LS430 because I am mainly interested in the unique driving refinement of the car rather than all the luxury do dads.

I would never look at any luxury American or European car due to the atrocious reliablity and planned obsolesence engineering of those cars. At one time Volvo was a good choice for reliability, but not since about the late 1980's.

[SW03ES]

Planned obsolescence of european cars? I can see that for American cars but not european cars, the european luxury car makers have longer design cycles than Lexus...

As for American cars I'd say the same but the new STS is impressive.

[steviej]

2006 GS430 (awd)

sj

[SW03ES]

No such beast, the GS300 is the only model availiable with the AWD, the 430 is exclusively RWD.

[1990LS400]

Whether I "have to" buy a car should my current LS get severely crashed or if I am successful in making my current LS last until its planned retirement date in 2014, the answer is the same: my next car will be the same as my current car -- "an LS that has just come off a 3 year/36,000 mile lease" -- what a huge "bang for the buck". So, if my car gets "totaled" tomorrow, the next one will be a 2002 LS430 Ultra -- I'm really starting to like the gadgets in the Ultra although I still don't care for the look of the LS430 and dislike the look of the next gen LS even more.

[SW03ES]

Where have you seen pictures of the next gen LS? We wanna see too!

[Lexusfreak]

If you were replacing your Lexus now, what kind of car would you replace it with?

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Here are my choices in order:

- 2006 Lexus GS 300 AWD

- 2005 Lexus ES 330

- 2005/6 Toyota Avalon Touring. :D B)

[Lexls]

A brand new LS of course :D

[Sadistic]

Well, as of now, I could only afford a Geo Metro, but it would be a really sweet Metro!

If money wasn't an object, I would definitely get an 06 GS 300 AWD. That's a dream come true if you ask me. That car would be turbocharged 5 hours after it left the lot.

[1990LS400]

Where have you seen pictures of the next gen LS? We wanna see too!

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I have seen several photos of cars that were represented as being of the next generation LS. The photos could be a hoax. Here is a link to one that is on the German language LOC Europe web site: http://www.autospies.com/images/1-27/Lexus-LS/1.JPG

I suspect that it wouldn't be too hard to find a prototype of the next gen LS running around Toyota/Lexus facilities in Japan. I saw unusual looking cars being driven around the Mercedes headquarters in Stuttgart in 1971 -- several years passed before these new models hit the auto magazines or went on sale in the U.S.

[SW03ES]

Jim- Thats a JDM Toyota Crown Athlete. If you really look at it you'll see that its significantly smaller than the LS, look at the rear door and the rear seat area. Lexus is VERY good at hiding their new models, we wont see the new LS until they want us to mark my words.

[denslexusgx470]

Well let's see, so far either:

Ls430

LX470

GX470 (yeah i would)

X5 (so so)

H2

LF-A (if i could ever afford 120k for a car!)

that's all that i've narrowed it down to so far.

[93lexuses]

I like the

GS300 AWD

or

LS430

I can't wait till the new LS comes out. I would love to see what it looks like.

I also like the

2005 GX470

and the

RX330 AWD

[1990LS400]

This link to a photo of what is supposedly the next LS was posted recently on the U.K. LOC LS forum: http://motoring.asia1.com.sg/cgi-bin/motor...c;f=16;t=000254

[SW03ES]

Now thats got possibilities, the one at the top. It follows the new design cues from the new GS. I still wouldn't put too much stock in it. The other one I've seen and don't buy, thats a reworked photo of an Audi A8.

dens- an H2? Ugg, talk about the lowest quality interior on the road.

[denslexusgx470]

dens- an H2? Ugg, talk about the lowest quality interior on the road.

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hey, i wanna try a hummer at least once in my life!! :whistles:

[SW03ES]

I'll tell you what you told me when I said the same thing about a BMW...

...rent one and get it out of your system ;)

[VBdenny]

If I had to replace the Lexus, I'd look around for another used one. I saw a 192 LS 400 in the paper here. Said perfect condition and 87,000 miles, $6900 If I was going to buy a new car it would be a Toyota Corolla LE or S. IF I had the money, which I don't right now, I would get a new, black LS430 but only if I could pay cash.

[ArmyofOne]

If I had to replace the Lexus, I'd look around for another used one.  I saw a 192 LS 400 in the paper here.  Said perfect condition and 87,000 miles,  $6900  If I was going to buy a new car it would be a Toyota Corolla LE or S.  IF I had the money, which I don't right now, I would get a new, black LS430 but only if I could pay cash.

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98-2001 LS400 or a 2002+ LS430 on 20" giovanni chrome wrapped in perelli rubber!

otherwas id like a 95LS4 please.