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Sedans High End Luxury Cars
24700 messages, Last post on Dec 01, 2009 at 12:24 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: nvbanker (Sep 02, 2006 2:37 pm) I would hope those days are now over. Are they?
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Replying to: dewey (Sep 02, 2006 1:57 pm) Where's ljflx when we need him?  TagMan |
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Replying to: hpowders (Sep 02, 2006 3:20 pm) I would hope those days are now over. The ES and Camry share something like 30% of their parts. As I said before, Toyota could do a "super premium" package for the V6 Camry with real wood, the ML stereo, etc. Nobody would buy it. No one's going to pay $37K+ for a Camry.
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Replying to: lexusguy (Sep 02, 2006 3:28 pm)
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Replying to: hpowders (Sep 02, 2006 4:42 pm) That is exactly why I said Toyota is the best platform sharing company in the world. Many ES and RX buyers are not even aware that their car is sharing the platform of a more humbler Toyota. Kudos for Lexus marketing. |
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Replying to: dewey (Sep 02, 2006 7:36 pm)
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Replying to: dewey (Sep 02, 2006 7:36 pm) Kudos for Lexus marketing. True. Recently, while chatting with some friends about their Lexus SUV, I mentioned something about the Toyota platform, and not as a put-down or anything, and they were oblivious to the fact, and I could tell that it darned near insulted them. Whoa. Close call. I said no more about it. There was no way they wanted to know that their Lexus SUV was really based upon a Toyota! Makes me wonder how many others are like that out there? TagMan
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See post 2670, 2007 LS thread for the link: The sportier suspension seems to eliminate body lean and the brakes are fine and feel "normal." So we have a tie on the brakes: one for, one against. |
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Replying to: tagman (Sep 03, 2006 6:02 am)
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I know this is not important to most of you here but I decided to do some calculations comparing the 2006 LS 430 with the car it is mostly compared to here, the Mercedes S 600. True cost of ownership over 5 years as follows: 1. Mercedes- $178,633. (Yikes!) 2. Lexus- $77,212. Now I can better understand the exclusivity of the S 600, though it seems to be a rather poor investment.
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