Found my next car!

[Rusty Crobar]

I know it's wrong but I do like the idea of cruising to work in this 😳

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192170336908

Feel free to slate me 😧

[Big Rat]

@Rusty Crobar Er yes now here's my take........

Love the colour.........................................

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[NemesisUK]

Think I'd prefer this one..

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1996-Lexus-soarer-v8/122461448418?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D43782%26meid%3D27c7cd1f5ab74c87a1cf675ac5eaf88b%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D6%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D192170336908

[Rusty Crobar]

@NemesisUK I'm more of VIP type of guy 😎.

 

[Big Rat]

I quite like that Car comes from a town I know well still a stylish looker 👍

Big Rat

[Rusty Crobar]

6 minutes ago, Big Rat said:

I quite like that Car comes from a town I know well still a stylish looker 👍

Big Rat

I had a ride in a soarer once, mostly going sideways 😉

[Big Rat]

4 minutes ago, Rusty Crobar said:

I had a ride in a soarer once, mostly going sideways 😉

@Rusty Crobar Now how come that doesn't surprise me ! 

@Flytvr Que that photo of 'Rusty Raggin the Welsh mountains' please 😂

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[Flytvr]

38 minutes ago, Rusty Crobar said:

I know it's wrong but I do like the idea of cruising to work in this 😳

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192170336908

Feel free to slate me 😧

Can we ban Rusty?

[Neil E]

@Rusty Crobar I think the rapid Aristo thunder-saloon might be of more interest. 

I owned 2 Soarers and 2 GS430 models, they were all very quick and comfortable.

[emjay82]

41 minutes ago, Rusty Crobar said:

I know it's wrong but I do like the idea of cruising to work in this 😳

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/192170336908

Feel free to slate me 😧

I think it's held together with no more nails. You wouldn't make it to work Rusty....

[Big Rat]

2 minutes ago, Neil E said:

@Rusty Crobar I think the rapid Aristo thunder-saloon might be of more interest. 

I owned 2 Soarers and 2 GS430 models, they were all very quick and comfortable.

@Neil E Pictures of those 4 ?

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[Big Rat]

@Rusty Crobar Russ what you need is this and do what ever you want to, keep you busy over the summer 😂

[Neil E]

3 hours ago, Big Rat said:

@Neil E Pictures of those 4 ?

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@Big Rat

Okay, I'm not sure you're ready for this but ....dragged from the archives, in order of least modified.....it was a while ago...particularly the Soarers, I'm nervously including a pic of the Soarer TT 'infotainment' system just for your amusement. 

GS430 Gen2 high in the French Alps en route to Monaco.

The later GS430 was the quick silver model.

High spec V8 Soarer Limited with air suspension near Ullapool in NW Scotland on the trail of the NC500 long before it was called that. This was my favourite.

 

TT Soarer with bodykit on the South Downs near Devils Dyke and Fulking - careful how you say that.

The days of the digital dash, cruise to work, play some sounds, log on to the PC and if you get stuck in traffic, watch TV. All from a Soarer built in 1991.

Both Soarers had big hifi systems installed. There was a thread on the SC400 US site many years ago about inspirational interiors (or something like that) and I sent in a night shot of this little lot under construction with a Centrafuse display, etc. I can't find the picture but it wasn't well received by the traditionalists. I learnt that evening why the Soarer was packed full of tech in Japan and a completely analogue SC400 in the US. The Soarer had the digital dash, active/air suspension, ultrasonic mirrors, rear camera, on board diagnostics, etc. It was way ahead of its time.

This is the lesser but quicker 2.5 GTT with TEMS.

After all the work I did to it, it met with a sudden sad end in Germany in the hands of the new owner on the drive back. Just a few miles from home, in sleety conditions, it slid off the road into the armco at around 40 mph. Earlier it had reportedly been doing 163 mph on the autobahn. The young driver walked away with very minor injuries but the car was a mess.

[Big Rat]

@Neil E

Wow Neil a Lexus man through and through, a fantastic informative reply a really interesting read. I wish now in years gone by I'd taken a more serious look at the Marque and models.

To much time and money on the German stuff which clearly were much less reliable at times and way behind on the tech stuff. 

Those proportionate clean lines of the Soarers and the Gs just looks right......especially the second one it's the colour 😏

A proud history fella and you are clearly someone who likes to use them as well love that Alps shot.

Some may say you and others on here may just may have had the best days of the models.

Thankyou for sharing.

Big Rat

[dutchie01]

Hey Russel how about cruising to work in this one? ( preferebly at night in total darkness..)

[Big Rat]

30 minutes ago, dutchie01 said:

Hey Russel how about cruising to work in this one? ( preferebly at night in total darkness..)

@Rusty Crobar If you do matey you may want to remove that banner in the windscreen 😉

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[Rusty Crobar]

46 minutes ago, Big Rat said:

@Rusty Crobar If you do matey you may want to remove that banner in the windscreen 😉

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Nah fam, I loves it ✊

[Big Rat]

Just now, Rusty Crobar said:

Nah fam, I loves it ✊

@Rusty Crobar Such a bad influence to the older members on here 😏

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[Rusty Crobar]

@Neil E that soarer interior looks like a brand new e-class merc! Maybe they copied your design 😁. 

[Neil E]

@Big Rat Yes been into Toyota Lexus for some time. There was an LS with an occasional ribbon but no banner and again in the correct colour.

 

52 minutes ago, Rusty Crobar said:

@Neil E that soarer interior looks like a brand new e-class merc! Maybe they copied your design 😁. 

@Rusty Crobar

I think this is a copy of the picture of the TT carputer progress report that woke up the SC400 club across the pond. I'm not sure that it inspired Mercedes a decade or so later but it was fun to do it. 

 

And whilst I'm in the archives, I'll confess to a few more crimes against the Soarer and hope for leniency. The older blue V8 had a little hifi/AV system.

[emjay82]

37 minutes ago, Neil E said:

@Big Rat Yes been into Toyota Lexus for some time. There was an LS with an occasional ribbon but no banner and again in the correct colour.

 

@Rusty Crobar

I think this is a copy of the picture of the TT carputer progress report that woke up the SC400 club across the pond. I'm not sure that it inspired Mercedes a decade or so later but it was fun to do it. 

 

And whilst I'm in the archives, I'll confess to a few more crimes against the Soarer and hope for leniency. The older blue V8 had a little hifi/AV system.

Wow....even James T Kirk would struggle to work all that gadgetry! Good work @Neil E

[Big Rat]

2 hours ago, emjay82 said:

Wow....even James T Kirk would struggle to work all that gadgetry! Good work @Neil E

@Neil E ✊