Tresy

I have been to 4 Lexus Dealers now, including one that discounted my last 2 RX, and none are offering dicounts. They all say sales are buoyant and that there is no need, and Lexus are not supporting discounts. I had my RX400SEL valued, and I have to say that I walked out in disgust. They quoted Glasses Guide to me, and at £17,000 is £3,000 less than I got for my RX 300 3 years ago. If you look at the residual value that represents about 37%, not much higher than a Mondeo. What happened to the famed 60% (I got that last time). I read somewhere that manufacturers were offering low PX against new models and storing them with a view to creating a shortage of used cars, thus pushing up the price and getting a benefit from that - wonder if Lexus are doing that? I don't think Lexus will reduce the price of the cars - they may bring in a Special Edition, but I think will be priced beween SEL and the SEL Super.

I am in the final throes of changing my Nissan Patrol 4.2TD (Japanese Import). I had my preference as 1.Volvo XC90 2. BMW X5 3. VW Toureg The Volvo was my well preferred choice as it is a lot cheaper than the X5, with tons more space: and the Toureg though big looks too much like a big Golf , especially from the back. I had discounted the MK1 RX300 as a) The wheel arches intruded too muc hinto the boot space, leaving onl a small aseable area B) it did not seem roomy enough c) it got a bad press for being poor on wet grass!! However I saw the new RX 300 at Vienna Airport yesterday, and I was curious. Now I have been reading the postings so I will arrange a test drive. However, has anyone taken the new model off-road? If so how did it perform? Is it any more roomy than the previuous model and does it have better boot space?