Toyota still made some ordinary hits with good performance bones though like the MRS and MR2, Chaser, Cressida, Altezza, and the like. Why they can't make anything with a simple formula like their preview FR cars is a quandary.
I actually agree. But mister 2 is absurd. The LF500 now is a rocket I love it. I think it's engineered like a master piece. But stats more there or raw more out there. But It's so good man. When my brother was working for Lexus dealer I got into a LF it is fucking NICE. Now you're dollar to power/etc. It's not the best but hot lordy. It's good.
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That's a big deal though. A performance drivetrain layout for substantially cheaper is the right kind of bones Toyota lacks now. The saying "poor man's Porsche" is a compliment to the MR2 series. Now there's no budget Porsche, just Porsche.
Your friend should move out of the ghetto.
Uhhh he drove it on the Autobahn fast & furious all the time.
Toyota fanboys hail the LC500 as some exquisite automotive piece of art, so it might not depreciate like a SL63 AMG
It's cool and all but it's a jack of all trades, master of none:
It's definitely a piece of modern art, because it's ugly. The diverging hood and belt lines are a shitbox design cue and the headlights are a mess stylistically. What's with the upside down lambda that wraps around the main part of the headlight then trails down to the vent that represents a brake cooling duct on a real performance car? The radical design change in lexus cars in general has been strange to me since day 1. They went from subdued to extremely aggressive styling. The grotesque stretched hourglass grille, the pinched front ends, the highly stretched wraparound headlights that look like something from positive canthal tilt meme.
Catalytic converters are quite expensive to replace, so some people go for flame arresters instead. It makes your exhaust smell like shit and is probably illegal in all countries (but the actual enforcement of this varies), and also you need to update your firmware on on-board computer for Euro-1/Euro-2 regulations (idk how they are called in USA). It also makes your engine produce somewhat more power with less fuel.
If I saw a pre-2000 car only with 200k miles I would assume that odometer fraud was commited at some point.
No they are not...18 months ago I found a 5L one in Germany for 65,000 Euros and bought an Aston instead. Can't find a non-hybrid piece of shit fake engine noise crap version for less than 70 at the moment.
Yep, but a totally different experience. As an Ex Evora S owner, I wouldn't even begin to compare it to the LC 500 which is more of a cruiser. The Evora was great when it didn't randomly go into limp-home mode, or the clutch wasn't on the floor because the clutch fluid line is right next to the engine and boils off when you park it.
