After reading your post, I purchased a Toyota filter off Ebay. I had put a Wally World filter in my 1994 SC300 with 17000 miles and felt kind of guilty (actually I believe it was a Fram purchased at Wally World)... Just got back from the garage, and I have to tell you they looked identical.. same color plastic frame, identical construction, filter element looked exact etc... I suppose the Ebay filter could be a Fram loaded into a Toyota box or perhaps one just has to believe that Toyota filtering element is the better material. By the way, I had just clocked in at 25.9 mpg on a 600 mile road trip with the Fram.. But I also believe one cannot go wrong by staying bone stock with factory Toyota/Lexus parts.