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Sedans High End Luxury Cars
24698 messages, Last post on Nov 30, 2009 at 1:20 PM
You are in the Sedans Forum. Your Hosts are pat & karens
Let's try to define this forum as being limited to luxury performance vehicles where the mainstream version in a typical configuration has an MSRP of at least $60k.
A luxury vehicle with a base price of $59k qualifies because it would typically be bought with some additional equipment, bringing the MSRP over $60k.
Vehicles like the E, 5, A6, M, or GS, even if available in certain versions over $60k, don't qualify because they are cars from companies that have higher end cars in their lineups.
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Replying to: dewey (Aug 30, 2006 6:26 am) |
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Passion takes a back seat
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Replying to: ivan_99 (Aug 30, 2006 9:02 am) TagMan |
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Replying to: ivan_99 (Aug 30, 2006 9:02 am) The reviewer seems to have more of a bone to pick with Lexus as a brand than actually contributing anything meaningful about the 2007 LS itself. Sounds like he had this review written before he even approached the vehicle. He writes "The brand still ranks near zero Kelvin on the prestige thermometer" and "Compared to luxury brands like Mercedes Benz, Cadillac(!), BMW and Audi, Lexus has the emotional appeal of a public golf course." If you're going to review a car, tell us about the car and don't use a review as a thinly disguised personal vendetta against Lexus. Given this reviewer's pre-conceived distaste for Lexus, the vehicle didn't stand a chance. Let's hope that we can soon read some unbiased comprehensive reviews of the 2007 LS. We don't need biased hatchet jobs.
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Replying to: hpowders (Aug 30, 2006 9:21 am) Well at least we have these forums as a respite from such extremes. 
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Replying to: designman (Aug 30, 2006 9:37 am) |
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Replying to: designman (Aug 30, 2006 9:37 am) I'm a BMW person so what I say is colored by that point of view. It's expected. I am not being paid by a newspaper to give a supposedly unbiased review which turns out to be nothing more than a personal vendetta against Lexus. I came away with absolutely nothing from that review except that the reviewer is biased against Lexus as a company. The LA Times should not have printed it. It is a disservice to their readers who are about to shop this vehicle. There is a higher principle at stake here. It's called journalistic integrity. I may personally dislike the LS, but I will surely defend the right of someone who wants to shop this car to be able to read a comprehensive, unbiased review that will help him in his decision-making. If I am running a newspaper and one of my music critics hates Verdi, why would I send him to review Aida?
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Replying to: hpowders (Aug 30, 2006 9:49 am)
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Replying to: hpowders (Aug 30, 2006 9:49 am) I would be perfectly happy if newspapers didn't have auto reviews. Most of them register zero on my Richter scale. |
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Replying to: houdini1 (Aug 30, 2006 10:13 am) Perhaps AutoWeek will review it in October. If I see a date, I will post it.
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