a310pilot

Look at LEXUS.EU offering. I mean jesus... they are offering BABY SEAT as accessory for your 2013 LEXUS ES amongst million other things (Fine it got nothing to do with luxury ) BUT then You can PICK YOUR seat color and Wood trim color individually regardless of what your exterior is..) All options are UNRELATED.

Why can't we have it this way... Are we buying less GS's than Europe ?? OR Europeans demand more than us?

Still sad.

savon

The answer is just look at the prices they have to pay. It is all about money. period.

a310pilot

No I don't agree.

Reasons for my disagreements are.

a: In Canada we are already paying more for the same cars than U.S. Not getting anything extra. INFACT, We are getting less for the same price in 99% of the cases. So it's not about the "money" and besides how much more money would it cost. if let's say I wanted walnut color wood than ash wood.

b: Look at the Australian G/S. it costs $99,000 dollars (Any extra - NOPE)

Here comes europe. YES they will get all the luxury feel in the world as if they are walking into a maybach showroom and they can pick each aspect of personalizing the car.

could it be that us North Americans are considered less "refined" so they can slap anything on and we say " WOW luxury " and Canadians are 2nd class citizens of the world?

I'm just saying...

LexusNN

iTrader: (5)

Hey you guys get free all weather mats don't you? A least I read that at one time. That's extra!
Just kidding

a310pilot

LOL.

OH yeah how can I forget that... and cargo net.

LexRuger

I thought in the US you could do a special order with individual options?

a310pilot

Yes you can pick certain options. But you cannot pick let's say black interior with brown exterior (fire agate pearl) and with Black interior it comes with whatever wood trim LEXUS feels North american ES should get...

Bamboo is only available with Hybrid models - what if I want it for gasoline car. I'm out of luck.

Europe has more leather color options as well.

savon

Lexus or any other car manufacturer want to maximize their profits. Their prices are set based on a market which they are competing in. U.S. is a huge car market. We are getting better options and prices In U.S. because Lexus has to compete harder for market share with other luxury brands. Lexus has to offer more with lower prices. They make up lower margin profits with more sales.
It may look to us that offering more options will cost them nothing, but we really don't know the facts. I can tell you from my personal experience in my profession that offering one option instead of three on one item will save us a lot of labor money. If they can save for example 1 dollar on each car sold by not offering an option they can just save 50-60 thousand dollars in U.S. alone on ES models. Multiply this by 8 million cars that toyota sells around the world.
Some countries have tariffs on imported cars. It maybe one of the reasons Lexus models are so expensive other parts of the world compare to U.S. or Canada. To me, it is all about money. They do whatever it takes to make more profit. it can be selling higher prices with less options in one country or vise versa. The market dictates what prices they have to sell (of course when there is a competition).

jollick

I took a look at the Lexus site for Europe and found that the ES is not available in Europe. They also do not have all the tech options we have.