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I believe your heart is in the right place here but what you're saying is you believe what a magazine tells you other people are saying rather than believeing the people who tell you directly on this forum In this instance, happy people are irrelevant, you don't need to know that XX% of owners are happy, what you need to know is that there have been YYYY number of failures of a certain part or parts. There may well be 100,000 perfectly happy RX300 owners out there but what is important is to know if/that there are 1000 reports of transmission failures, and that after xx date there are only 25 (or however many) failures . By homogonizing the data CR minimizes the seriousness of those failure. IMHO forums like this one are far more valuable then CR for making car buying decisions.

Thanks I was thinking of trading in for a later model if it was fixed I love the car and have had no problems I wonder if this happens in every one of these cars of just some of them? Anyone know?

I have a 2003 RX 300 with 22,000 miles. A friend told me that there had been several reports of this model having transmissions problems. When I got on the various sites I saw that this was true. Does anyone know if these problems were rectified in later model RXs? Thanks!