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My 92 ES300 has 289k miles on it. Instrument panel light half works, the engine stutters and cuts out when you try to give it too much gas (has for a LONG time), and it kindof smells like it's burning oil but isn't. It runs pretty good and looks great! I can't complain, it was given to me. :) I'm now the 3rd owner, my parents owned it before me (mom just gave it to me because she had "too many cars", and wanted me to drive to her house more - can't afford gas in my Durango and my husband doesn't want me racking up the miles on his BMW). My mom also has a 95 ES with almost 200k miles. A 97 ES with 101k miles. And a 99 RX with 88k miles.

Decided to make my first post on this thread... I'm female, 31, and I drive a 92 with 285,000+ miles on it. The body is near perfect (minus 1 small dent on the driver door due to a deer jumping out in front of me - it hit the front bumper and slid over the hood then hit the door and busted the mirror. Other than that, no damage from hitting a deer at about 40 MPH), but the interior has been a little beat up, not very well taken care of (driver seat leather has torn pretty bad). My parents actually just gave it to me because they have too many cars. :whistles: It's been in my family since it was about 5 years old, and I've driven this thing all over the country. It's been pretty reliable, considering it has 285k on it. It rattles a lot, but my parents live on dirt roads. AC doesn't work anymore. There is one problem with acceleration that nobody has ever been able to figure out...if you give it too much gas, it will stutter and cut out until you let off, then it's fine again. You have to drop it down into 2nd if going up a hill, or it will choke. It's been to Lexus and numerous other shops, and not one person has been able to fix it. It's been doing this since about 125k miles, so we finally just gave up trying to figure it out. My parents (mom is 65) also have a 95 ES, a 97 ES, and a 99 RX, as well as a couple of Ford trucks and a Suzuki Sidekick (they live on 12 acres). My husband has a 01 BMW 330 XI, and he's 32. He got a lot of grief from my family over his BMW decision, but I have to admit that I love that car as much as I love the Lexus cars.