Just picked up my "new" Lexus yesterday. I am now driving a '99 LS400 in some crazy purple and lilac 2 tone (although in most of the photos I look when I got home it looks brown!)
I like big cars (you can sing that to the tune of "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mixalot if you like) and was all set to buy a Jaguar V8 4.0 S type until I thought I would go look at a local Lexus for sale "just to cross it off the list". Well, my misconceptions of the brand were shattered within about 0.4 seconds of seeing the car. The automatic trans hadn't even got into 3rd gear on my test drive and I knew I had to buy it.
I've owned/driven/borrowed/hired some nice cars and some big luxury monsters of course, but the LS400 seems a perfect "compromise" of size, power, agility and luxury. OK, not as "sporty" as the S Type or whatever, but its cut from a different cloth... a far more luxurious cloth...
Hopefully my photo link will work....
thats the beasty at home last night.
I'm looking forward to putting some more miles on it :D Just getting the hang of all the controls now...