General Car Conversation
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There's still a market for the car, they just have to field an excellent product, which they aren't interested in doing. They're more interested in building entry level luxury FWD vehicles.
Can't sell a 10 year old design in the segment anymore, no.
Can't sell a 10 year old design in the segment anymore, no.
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There is like no market for this type of Lexus. show me a brand that has increased their sales from the generation before last to justify the expense of retooling the line to make this car. It was the right thin to do to cancel it. having four sedans in their line up at this point would be outrageous
So is Mercedes-Benz...Mercedes-Benz has two FWD sedans 
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There is like no market for this type of Lexus. show me a brand that has increased their sales from the generation before last to justify the expense of retooling the line to make this car. It was the right thin to do to cancel it. having four sedans in their line up at this point would be outrageous
Its a shrinking market for sure, but its important for the credibility of the brand, and crossovers can be built off the platform which defrays the cost.
So is Mercedes-Benz...Mercedes-Benz has two FWD sedans
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iMO it’s still a great car. They could tweak a little here and there to improve mpg and style, people would still buy it like the GX. But I guess they can make more money somewhere else and decided to drop.
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General Car Conversation thread guidelines (please read before posting)
The goal of this General Car Conversation thread is to provide an ongoing natural conversation about car related topics that ebbs and flows. The thread was requested by Club Lexus members to create a ‘general’ chat space for car related topics & tangents which allows continual conversation and will help keep other car chat threads on their more discrete and specific topics.
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The goal of this General Car Conversation thread is to provide an ongoing natural conversation about car related topics that ebbs and flows. The thread was requested by Club Lexus members to create a ‘general’ chat space for car related topics & tangents which allows continual conversation and will help keep other car chat threads on their more discrete and specific topics.
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I just wanted to send a shout out to SW …. This thread is fantastic …. I feel that this thread has promoted a good sense of community and has made it feel more like a “club”. I like the fact that we can just randomly post whatever….and I think it helps keep other threads “on topic”
anyone else feel the same?
a big thanks SW.
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I just wanted to send a shout out to SW …. This thread is fantastic …. I feel that this thread has promoted a good sense of community and has made it feel more like a “club”. I like the fact that we can just randomly post whatever….and I think it helps keep other threads “on topic”
anyone else feel the same?
a big thanks SW.……
anyone else feel the same?
a big thanks SW.
……Thank you SW! (Idk how to tag people lol)
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maybe the admins might want to make this thread a “private” thread that can’t be read by people with no membership. Further….perhaps there might be some consideration that each member in this thread must have a minimum “1000” posts or something …. That might protect the integrity of the thread and help promote community…. And thus no trolls. As you’d need to post 1000 posts to get in.
just my suggestion….
and maybe
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But they are not a muscle car out of the Lexus dealer. And yes, they do sound good when revving. But still boring overall. IMO
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This thread was great idea though. Good thinking SW.
