LexFather

HOLY THEY SHARE 4 DOORS AND A STEERING WHEEL BATMAN!!!

I must say I don't like how they BOTH have the Bangle butt , even if its a small butt

Gojirra99

For those who care about it looking like a $70K car, some may mistake the new LS from a distance from the side & the back for a 7 series , that's a $90K -$130K +car

BrickHead

I am a little troubled/puzzled by this as well. Others mentioned the taillights of the ES resemble the LS's too. I know they don't look exactly alike. But why the similarity among several Toyota/Lexus vehicles?

Mandingo

I actually agree with the original poster - from the back, in the same color, the average person couldn't tell the difference.

Side view is also very close.

Helps sell a lot of Camrys I'm sure "a Lexus look alike for $40k less!" but would make me hesitate to invest in a 460.

rominl

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seriously i am so tired and can't really understand all these "omg this looks like that" discussion.... what's the point? for god's sake they all have 4 wheels, they all look so damn alike in my eyes..... if someone comes and say hey your camry is nice (when i have a ls), i can really care less about what he thinks already, coz' he's an idiot in my eyes for all i care. i think we should just serioulsy knock off all these discussions.......

Mandingo

rominl,

sounds like you're the ideal customer for the hot new model below.

Only has 3 wheels but hey, its only one wheel difference and they all look basically alike.

Gojirra99

Yes, I always tend to look at a car as a whole rather than it's individual parts. It's always very easy for anyone to isolate certain parts/angles of a car and find examples of other cars that it looks similar to(same family or not).
It has been discussed in the Car Chat thread that the new LS looks like a 7 series, & now it looks like a Camry & has ES tail lights, so which one is it ?? A $25-30K Camry look-alike or a $90-130K 7 series look-alike ??

rominl

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hahaha there you go man, sounds like need one of those easy

and yeah, if we wanna talk about similar, i think the 7 series is way ahead of teh camry. but do i care? no, maybe just one initial statement. if lexus can copy and perfect it, i am fine with it.

sha4000

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most everyone buys a luxury car so they can stand out in one way or another, so its complete bull when they say that they dont care if it looks like a car thats 40k less even if its a reliable toyota

Agent0986

Completely agree with the above post ^
Especially when I'm dishing out enough
money to be potentially driving an M5.

Also, the old LS was quite distinct looking...
maybe a little Avalon blood but hey at least
thats Toyota's flagship. And well before the "stupid"
people would walk up to you and say
nice "avalon"....now nice "camry"

GRAND_LS 4

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And that’s exactly right. Maybe it doesn’t look EXACTLY the same, but why make them similar? Has Toyota run out of designs? It’s called product differentiation.

rominl, what ever happened to all the talk about exclusivity? Would you spend $1k on JP's if you could buy ones that looked VERY similar but inferior for $150 a pair made by JP for example?

My only point is they should make the LS a little more exclusive. Make the Camry look like the ES, or IS instead… not the LS. Not to mention that Toyota should separate the designers from the two child companies.

The recipe changes completely changes when you talk high-end luxury cars. Lexus is already stealing customers from Mercedes and BMW, buy offering class leading reliablity and design, would it hurt to add a bit of exclusivity? After all, that why people buy BMW's and benzes to start with. And thats what the segment wants.

Gojirra99

The current LS430 is like a big Toyota crown if you judge by the looks, & actually the crown looks better IMHO. I much prefer the new LS460 over the LS430 easy.
The new LS looks WAY more exclusive to me than the new Camry already just by the pictures alone, & the difference will be further magnified many folds when you get to see them both in person.
The current S class is also ~$40K more( at least, could be much,much, more) than the 4 cylinder C class & people have critisized in the past that it's a baby S class, why did they make them look so similar it's hard to tell them apart especially a distance? That's bad for S class owners. Why buy an S class when you can get a C class that looks so similar & save at least $40K ? Yeah ,a 4 banger C class is still a Mercedes
In the end, it really didn't matter as both of them continue to sell successfully. The same will happen to the new LS & the Camry, just wait & see . . .

SMC

It's pretty much the same as Benz C class, when that first came out I saw lots of resemblance between the 2 cars. Now they are just different.

encore888

I still see a lot of resemblance between the C-class and current Camry, for some reason. I know it doesn't make logical sense, but for some reason a black Camry and black C-class ring bells for me...

I agree that the rear lights look similar (Hyundai Sonata as well!); they also resemble the 2LS rear. I think the 2IS rear is the best of the L-Finessed designs.

That said, I think the rest of the car looks very different, and exclusive...

xknowonex

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Ok, if u wanna defend Lexus, u can also say that most of Benz line look alot alike