GS vs Toyota Avalon
04-12-10, 11:08 AM
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04-12-10, 04:04 PM
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Your rapidly unpopular friend 
might not be entirely incorrect - but probably just technically correct or lucky!
The Lexus GS was sold in Japan as the Toyota Aristo from 1991 through 2005. In 2005, with the 3rd gen, they switched the Japanese market to the Lexus brand.
might not be entirely incorrect - but probably just technically correct or lucky!The Lexus GS was sold in Japan as the Toyota Aristo from 1991 through 2005. In 2005, with the 3rd gen, they switched the Japanese market to the Lexus brand.
04-12-10, 06:48 PM
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The Camry, Avalon and Venza are all on the same chasis....and built in Georgetown, KY. I live 15 miles away. Also, we own both of these vehicles. I drive my GS, my wife drives her Avalon (both 2008s). On occasion when I drive her Avalon...there is in no way any similarities between the two....ZERO. Her car is HUGE...enough room in the back seats to house a small village. The ride is a lot softer, but that's probably because it's on 55 series tires, the longer wheel base and non run-flat tires. Your friend is an idiot.
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04-13-10, 08:36 AM
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There is some confusion here.
The GS was ALWAYS designed to be a GS. This is shown by the 1GS getting its design from Guigario, the Italian design firm and was sold worldwide EXCEPT in Japan. Remember that these cars were designed as Lexus but they were REBADGED as Toyotas in Japan as they decided not to debut a dealer network until 2006.
It it was a rebadge job or they put no effort it in, we simply would have gotten a Toyota Crown rebadge. We didn't, Lexus got an entirely new and different vehicle.
Also remember that we got the I-6 and then a V-8 here that Japan never got. Japan got the I-6 and a tt I-6. They also got 4WS and other tricks we never got. When the 3GS debuted both here and there got V-6s and V-8s and the hybrid.
The Avalon debuted in 1995 I believe based off the Camry, stretched 6 inches or so but weighed only 100 more lbs amazingly. It basically was the better Buick for 15 years until Buick woke up recently. The Avalon has always been built in KY and always for the American market only. It is not exported from my understanding.
The GS was ALWAYS designed to be a GS. This is shown by the 1GS getting its design from Guigario, the Italian design firm and was sold worldwide EXCEPT in Japan. Remember that these cars were designed as Lexus but they were REBADGED as Toyotas in Japan as they decided not to debut a dealer network until 2006.
It it was a rebadge job or they put no effort it in, we simply would have gotten a Toyota Crown rebadge. We didn't, Lexus got an entirely new and different vehicle.
Also remember that we got the I-6 and then a V-8 here that Japan never got. Japan got the I-6 and a tt I-6. They also got 4WS and other tricks we never got. When the 3GS debuted both here and there got V-6s and V-8s and the hybrid.
The Avalon debuted in 1995 I believe based off the Camry, stretched 6 inches or so but weighed only 100 more lbs amazingly. It basically was the better Buick for 15 years until Buick woke up recently. The Avalon has always been built in KY and always for the American market only. It is not exported from my understanding.
