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Old Dec 20, 2023 | 04:18 PM
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I’m sometimes surprised at how people treat their cars. .
Same, and the vast majority of vehicles on the road (I'm speculating) people are paying payments on which makes it even worse.

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I don’t understand spending luxury car money, even at entry level like the IS, to then just trash the car. I also don’t understand spending $ to modify a car and not taking care of it. To each their own.
Our truck gets dirty inside because of all the dog hair and there's tons of our random BS in the very back, but it is always washed and shined up on the outside. Always. It is a little bit of laziness on my part but hey it's a truck, we use the utility of it quite often.

I had my spouse get me a $400 interior only detail for Xmas last year for the LS430, it still is great in there.

The Mercedes I won't even leave the house with unless the rims are basically perfectly clean.
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Same, and the vast majority of vehicles on the road (I'm speculating) people are paying payments on which makes it even worse.



Our truck gets dirty inside because of all the dog hair and there's tons of our random BS in the very back, but it is always washed and shined up on the outside. Always. It is a little bit of laziness on my part but hey it's a truck, we use the utility of it quite often.

I had my spouse get me a $400 interior only detail for Xmas last year for the LS430, it still is great in there.

The Mercedes I won't even leave the house with unless the rims are basically perfectly clean.
Yeah, trucks are different. I see a lot of modified lowered cars here and there’s plenty invested, but the cars are not taken care of. So why spend the money on wheels, springs, coilovers etc if you’re going to treat it like a rental? Not something I spend time trying to understand but I don’t get it.
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Yeah, trucks are different. I see a lot of modified lowered cars here and there’s plenty invested, but the cars are not taken care of. So why spend the money on wheels, springs, coilovers etc if you’re going to treat it like a rental? Not something I spend time trying to understand but I don’t get it.
I don't get it either.
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I saw a beautiful black 99-00 LS400 (can tell it wasn’t a 98 because it had DRLs) today on 270. Perfect shape and spotless
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I saw a beautiful black 99-00 LS400 (can tell it wasn’t a 98 because it had DRLs) today on 270. Perfect shape and spotless
that was your favourite generation? Was it not?


I saw some nice cars today



I have always liked a two-door version of this model.



@AJT123 I love the wheel covers. This was a 320



looking back, this was a nice design. in other words looking back, there is no over styling here, Boring yes





@Striker223 I don’t think this is the mighty W12. This is the Bentley that I keep seeing



Just not a fan of the color. Black on black is just terrible.

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Hideous wheel covers!!! Never, ever seen that before so it's cool though. Looks in pretty good shape because I see the wind buffeter in there. Most don't come with that. Mine didn't.



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Just not a fan of the color. Black on black is just terrible.
You're crazy lol. A murdered out Rolls?

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You're crazy lol.
you can custom pick any colour you want for a Rolls-Royce. I can’t imagine black it’s something thats picked.
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you can custom pick any colour you want for a Rolls-Royce. I can’t imagine black it’s something thats picked.
I can.

But I'll admit, you can choose from virtually anything so maybe black isn't the most creative choice.

I'd love a baby blue one with a light beige interior.
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I'd love a baby blue one with a light beige interior.
that would be sweet. I’d go for dark blue, or some sort of purple blue. Not sure about the interior, I have fallen out of love with beige lately. I really like the wheel covers on that Mercedes because it’s different and you don’t see it very often

just another reason why Lexus is not really a tier one brand. Porsche, Mercedes, BMW have far more colors,

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Originally Posted by LexsCTJill
you can custom pick any colour you want for a Rolls-Royce. I can’t imagine black it’s something thats picked.
It’s picked extremely often.
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Originally Posted by LexsCTJill
that would be sweet. I’d go for dark blue, or some sort of purple blue. Not sure about the interior, I have fallen out of love with beige lately. I really like the wheel covers on that Mercedes because it’s different and you don’t see it very often

just another reason why Lexus is not really a tier one brand. Porsche, Mercedes, BMW have far more colors,
Yeah but a high end Lexus paint job is just as good as a Mercedes or BMW. Better even maybe.
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Originally Posted by LexsCTJill
that would be sweet. I’d go for dark blue, or some sort of purple blue. Not sure about the interior, I have fallen out of love with beige lately. Is,
I can't think of anything else to go with a baby blue exterior, can you?
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I can't think of anything else to go with a baby blue exterior, can you?
you could go with black. Your Lexus LX, not the model year you have used to have a baby blue. I wonder what the colour combinations were for that?
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Yeah but a high end Lexus paint job is just as good as a Mercedes or BMW. Better even maybe.
Not maybe, definitely better.
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you could go with black. Your Lexus LX, not the model year you have used to have a baby blue. I wonder what the colour combinations were for that?
I remember! Beige only, there were only beige and black choices until 2016.. That was a nice shade of blue.. the pre-refresh LS430s also had a nice baby blue. I was sitting in the DMV parking lot admiring it once, I'm not a fan of pre-refreshed 430s but it looked very classy and regal.

I don't personally think black would look great with baby blue.



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