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Are there many Luxury Package cars out there?

Old 10-25-16, 02:37 PM
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You guys need to upgrade the wrist rest (lol):


Old 10-25-16, 02:43 PM
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Originally Posted by program1
Agreed, I found one the other day while shopping when my daughter jumped in the back seat and pulled down the armrest. I said: "Oh, this one has the controls in the back too!"
I had to look it up. It wasn't listed on the net for that car and the only give away which I hadn't noticed was the wood steering wheel.
It's funny you mentioned that. My son (16 years old) dreaded going to shop for cars with me, until I gave him the job of looking for wooden steering wheels. The local dealership must have had twenty pre-owned GS 350 cars in two rows. Once he located about six luxury packaged cars, I told him look for the cold weather packaged ones (the salesperson said they wouldn't have any, as "that was something you'll find up north"). When the salesman left to get some keys, my son took off and about thirty seconds later called out, "here's one!"

Funny how most auto salespeople don't actually know much about the very cars they are selling (nor do they seem interested in learning).

We also found one that had a HUD and LP, but it was a 2013 (if I recall correctly) and not my color of choice.
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Originally Posted by DallasDave
It's funny you mentioned that. My son (16 years old) dreaded going to shop for cars with me, until I gave him the job of looking for wooden steering wheels. The local dealership must have had twenty pre-owned GS 350 cars in two rows. Once he located about six luxury packaged cars, I told him look for the cold weather packaged ones (the salesperson said they wouldn't have any, as "that was something you'll find up north"). When the salesman left to get some keys, my son took off and about thirty seconds later called out, "here's one!"

Funny how most auto salespeople don't actually know much about the very cars they are selling (nor do they seem interested in learning).

We also found one that had a HUD and LP, but it was a 2013 (if I recall correctly) and not my color of choice.
I've looked at so many of them on cargurus that I can tell as soon as I look at the door trim You can tell that some of the sellers have no idea what the luxury package is.
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Originally Posted by Dave144239
I've looked at so many of them on cargurus that I can tell as soon as I look at the door trim You can tell that some of the sellers have no idea what the luxury package is.
What's different about the door trim?
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Originally Posted by JDR76
...but I don't think most people can tell much difference between Sport S+ in the Luxury Package vs F Sport package.
I doubt I could tell the difference. So, I adjusted my searches and alerts last night to look for a LUX car in addition to the F Sport I'm after. One will show up. There even appears to be a C/Lexus Blue Mica in CT that someone replaced the Lux wheels with F Sport wheels. That might be the car... It looks sexy as hell.
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Originally Posted by grayson73
What's different about the door trim?
It's a different wood on the Luxury Package cars. The lighter standard wood trim is on the left below, and the darker LP trim is on the right.
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Old 10-26-16, 06:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Dave144239
The lighter standard wood trim is on the left below, and the darker LP trim is on the right.
Excellent! Thanks for the pics.
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Originally Posted by grayson73
What's different about the door trim?
Other way to check is to look at the Passenger front door trim. Luxury package has memory seat buttons on both front Driver & Passenger door trims.
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Originally Posted by songoku
Other way to check is to look at the Passenger front door trim. Luxury package has memory seat buttons on both front Driver & Passenger door trims.
Or just look for the ever so elusive wood trim steering wheel. 👍
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I have a 13 GS350 AWD Luxury, starfire pearl/flaxen, cold weather with ML and only $38k miles - $35k an it's yours.

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Originally Posted by LXGXSAM1
I have a 13 GS350 AWD Luxury, starfire pearl/flaxen, cold weather with ML and only $38k miles - $35k an it's yours.
Thanks, but I'll probably buy closer to home. Just to give you an idea of what's out there, these are the LP cars I've found in the past week.
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I found a 13' last year with loaded lux. HUD, rear heated seats, dynamic radar cruise control, ML, attention monitor and even night vision (yes for real) and it's AWD. I put on a mild drop (which slightly further firmed up the rode unfortunately). But love it!

The only thing I miss might be the variable ratio steering box and I don't like my color. (That dark red/brown).

If you can find one get it.
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Default Wrist rest

Where can I get the black wrist rest with white stitching that matches the black interior of my '15 luxury package GS?
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I made mine. I want another (spare) wrist rest to make another one. You give me a spare rest, I'll give you a leather one like the picture.
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Originally Posted by DallasDave
I made mine. I want another (spare) wrist rest to make another one. You give me a spare rest, I'll give you a leather one like the picture.
Do you think it would look bad on Flaxen?

Since you are local i am wondering if i should take you up on your offer...........

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