I want a Lexus.... I need help!

[xtriple]

Yes, tired of aging British chod with HUGE bills and unreliability on a scale that Cecil B DeMille would have been proud of, I want Japanese quality! I loved my MX5 (I know hate Wolfy!) but need something bigger for dogs and me. I want to go down to just one car, because... well, because!

 

So I have been looking for a Lexus SC430 otherwise known as 'the Worlds Ugliest 'Sports' car'. Fook me, they are pricy bastards aren't they?  I have seen one in Evesham for £5500 on an 04 so low tax but it's miles away, anyone close by care to run an eye over it for me? If you like it and it checks out okay I might buy it... I am indecisive to an extreme!

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-LEXUS-SC-430-4-3-AUTO-SILVER/222891256022?hash=item33e55aa8d6:g:0XgAAOSwl7NasOKD

[STUNO]

Much better for you, but no opening top. Dogs would love this.

This one is a bit far away, there must be another closer though !

 

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/lexus/auction-1587422726.htm?rsqid=34de3860dfa84717826404c48bd28379

[MarvinsMom]

i thinkk wanting a lexus is an entirely normal thing to do,

 

after running about in our ls400, not wanting one of these fine jap motors seems very abnormal.

 

dunno anythng about the Soarer (or what ever they call the big coupe thing) though.

 

how unhelpful a post is this!

[xtriple]

I am thiking about a GS or an LS but I am a sad middle aged poseur and would like a floppy top SC.I do fancy a 400 but.... and it was a good post - thank you  

[FakeConcern]

Goodness that looks terrible! Buy it!

 

I'm sure something like that would be an investement*

[MarvinsMom]

our ls400 is ace. it has to have the finest engine and gearbox i've come across,

 

compared to the AJ16 engine and GM400 tramsmission in the XJR the lexus is far smoother and responsive. the jag engine though is a long stroke compared to the ls's engine.

 

also we think that the seats are marginally better in the lexus and that it rides better than the jaguar too.

 

but the xjr did have uprated (lower and stiffer) suspension over the normal xj6, but for us the clincher is that the lexus is so much more robust than the jaguar. i loved the jaguar, but found it very needy, there seemed to be always something that it wanted or needed. the lexus is a polar opposite, it just seems to keep on going, except of course last friday, but that was due to operator incompitence error!

 

i think the trouble now would be finding a nice, unabused LS400. they are getting old, and have fallen into banger and bodger terratory!

[Jim Bell]

For that kind of money, Y U NO:

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/lexus-ls430-ul-2001-4-3-v8-golden-12-months-mot-83k-miles-only/202276152771?hash=item2f189925c3:g:J2oAAOSwvP9atVWy

 

 

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toyota-MR2-Mk3-low-miles-just-35k-service-history-Full-MOT/323179992587?hash=item4b3f07560b:g:YC0AAOSwp0pawL1u

[HillmanImp]

For that kind of money, Y U NO:

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/lexus-ls430-ul-2001-4-3-v8-golden-12-months-mot-83k-miles-only/202276152771?hash=item2f189925c3:g:J2oAAOSwvP9atVWy

 

 

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toyota-MR2-Mk3-low-miles-just-35k-service-history-Full-MOT/323179992587?hash=item4b3f07560b:g:YC0AAOSwp0pawL1u

 

I just threw up a little bit in my mouth. That is gopping. What were they thinking?

[Jim Bell]

 That is gopping. 

 

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https://giphy.com/gifs/3oEjI8vagntG7EDxgQ/html5

[DodgeRover]

Our dog likes the wife's RX300, haven't managed to get it stuck in the mud in the woods yet either despite running commercial tyres rather than mud and slush types.

Beware specialists though, ours came with an eye watering (for us) specialist service history, needed lots of bits doing that hadn't been done.

Also lather underneath in rust prevention before it rusts.

[MarvinsMom]

the gold badges and trim were an extra that you had to pay money for.....

 

just saying like.

 

 

it doesn't make it right though.

[loserone]

Looks lovely to me. Puts the proles off!

[Felly Magic]

Sir Anthony Hopkins owned a floppytop Lexus at one point IIRC. Saw a minty JRG LS400 the other day, and I thought 'nice', I think you would struggle with the dogs in a floppy top though, a tidy LS would probably fit your bill perfectly, toys & plenty of room, and wafty

[Hawkeyethenoo]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lexus-SC430-4-3-V8-Convertible/173236194135?hash=item2855ae8b57:g:Ex8AAOSwbDZat6Eb

[xtriple]

Sir Anthony Hopkins owned a floppytop Lexus at one point IIRC. Saw a minty JRG LS400 the other day, and I thought 'nice', I think you would struggle with the dogs in a floppy top though, a tidy LS would probably fit your bill perfectly, toys & plenty of room, and wafty

I will have you know young Sir that Phoebe and Chester simply adore a 'floppy top' as you so elequently put it!  They loved the MX5 it was just too small which is why something with small back seats would be perfect-a-mundo for them. We had a couple of Merc SL's before and the earlier car with the little back seats was spot on, the later one, didn't and wasn't!

 

I like soft tops, I always have, even in a closed car with climate control (the Bentley) I always drive with at least three windows open - granted the back two windows are open because Fat Lad sulks if he can't stick his head out and stare at the proles as they are forced to walk from place to place

 

I know it is something of a cliche about old gits in 'sports cars' but my 2nd car was a Spitfire and I was definitely young then!

[xtriple]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lexus-SC430-4-3-V8-Convertible/173236194135?hash=item2855ae8b57:g:Ex8AAOSwbDZat6Eb

Looked at that but no service history at all and th complete - colour change- respray rather puts me off... I don't like the colour either. The fact it's about a gazillion miles away doesn't help.