krisby

you won't find a twin turbo GS300, only the Toyota Aristo comes as a twin turbo version. but heck, in a series II, why wouldn't the 166kw in the standard GS be enough? We import them from Singapore and they are awesome, great power, more bottom down power than an LS400, the V8 needs to be revved. As for other comments of GS being slower than a ES, I can't fathom that, maybe UK GS300 are detuned, cos in NZ that is certainly not the case, atleast not in ones I have driven.

All Lexus are re-badged Toyotas, Lexus is just marketing not a manufacturer. ← yes and no, Lexus and Toyota are in fact different! They are not a simple rebadge. For example, an Aristo only has a 4 speed box and does not come with leather, whereas a GS300 does, I would guess the same applies to a windom/ES or LS/celsior. In NZ we have masses of Windoms (actually looking at buying one shortly), and a lot of berks do rebadge, but that is more on the LS or GS, not so much ES, if you have a windom, thats ok. Certain cars are made for Lexus only and subsequently badged as toyotas, but now Lexus is officially selling cars in japland then it may well stop.