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Old Nov 11, 2024 | 05:42 PM
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These are aging better by the day. I have noticed that people mug my car now than ever before, and I've had it 12 years.

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Originally Posted by Stroock639
oh right, audi guy... here i fixed the proportions for you this should feel more familiar now lmao

Yeah except I have both and measured both just for you and there is less than 1 inch difference front and back. It's your head.....the newer Audis have no difference in proportions due to the custom trans they use.
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Old Nov 11, 2024 | 08:50 PM
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Yeah except I have both and measured both just for you and there is less than 1 inch difference front and back. It's your head.....the newer Audis have no difference in proportions due to the custom trans they use.
i know lol i just enjoy making this a bigger deal than it needs to be
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Old Nov 11, 2024 | 08:55 PM
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They will drag the LS out another few years. Like what Lexus did with the CT200 (12 Years!)
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Old Nov 11, 2024 | 11:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Stroock639
still looks kinda bloated and bulbous with the sloping rear window, and of course the spindle grille is still a fail... that's assuming i even see one at all lol even around here they're a rare sighting

the first facelift 460(SWB) and the 1998-2000 are the ones i think are, and will continue to age the best

Half agree.
Pre-facelift front half is the best LS design ever. The issue is the rear half of the car being plain and bulbous. It's as if the front half and the rear half are designed by different people.

But hold on they thought the front wasn't "good looking" enough so they decided to kill the front end too for MMC. Oh and the beautiful dash was gone too. And you wonder why sales are so miserably bad.

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Old Nov 12, 2024 | 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Stroock639
i know lol i just enjoy making this a bigger deal than it needs to be
Ah you got me good then lol! Now my S4.....that thing has a LONG nose
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Originally Posted by Striker223
Ah you got me good then lol! Now my S4.....that thing has a LONG nose
thing is i made that pic as a joke but it's actually kinda growing on me lmao... that's basically what it'd look like if an LS had aston martin lagonda proportions
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went on autotrader and lexus websites - there appear to be exactly 0 2025 ls500's available in the u.s.
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
went on autotrader and lexus websites - there appear to be exactly 0 2025 ls500's available in the u.s.
I don't think the production or deliveries have started yet.
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Old Nov 13, 2024 | 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by LexusForever
I don't think the production or deliveries have started yet.
Or that they haven't told us yet that it's received the ax.
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Old Nov 13, 2024 | 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by AJT123
Or that they haven't told us yet that it's received the ax.
that's not true, lexus has already issued their press release on the '25.
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Originally Posted by sl0519
Half agree.


But hold on they thought the front wasn't "good looking" enough so they decided to kill the front end too for MMC. Oh and the beautiful dash was gone too. And you wonder why sales are so miserably bad.
Exactly. They gave it the Camry Treatment (hey lets just rip the original air vents out, but keep the same molding and slap a cheap screen half-way up)



Hey: What's the cheapest way to slap on a touch screen and give it some big thick bezels, and replace brushed aluminum around the radio controls with gloss black (because that's what 18 year old focus groups like):


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Old Nov 15, 2024 | 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
really?

s560 side:
e350 side:
s560 rear:
e350 rear:
Yeah I agree with this. Even I have a hard time telling them apart.
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Old Nov 15, 2024 | 09:46 AM
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about the dash change, if you go on their page and look at the 'gallery', you'll see they don't show any close shots of the dash because it looks so bad now.

https://www.lexus.com/models/LS
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Old Nov 15, 2024 | 09:50 AM
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In person it really does not look bad at all. The improvement in usability if the touch screen vs the old RTC is well worth the change.
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