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2005 gs430...how many were actually made?

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Old 09-03-13, 05:12 AM
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I want a rare black cherry 05 430 now lol
Old 09-03-13, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by GokuSSJ3
I want a rare black cherry 05 430 now lol
ALL GS's in '05 were rare.. Honestly, I'll take any color GS300 or GS430 just because of this limited year. But a Blk Cherry 430 would be sweet. It'll be great if I can find out how many of each color..

I'm glad I found my Crystal white, So far I only seen one other white '05 and it had low miles as well around 40K miles.
Old 09-03-13, 01:23 PM
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Gas prices I think, was a main reason why V8 production was so low, but little do people know MPG is similar to the 300

I'm a proud owner of a 05 silver/black 430
Old 09-03-13, 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by clos430
Gas prices I think, was a main reason why V8 production was so low, but little do people know MPG is similar to the 300

I'm a proud owner of a 05 silver/black 430
you definitely got a rare beast...
Old 09-03-13, 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by clos430
I'm a proud owner of a 05 silver/black 430
Oh nice, you're the 3rd one so far on here.. Lets see who else... We should start the "422 Club" like the SC guys have the 1200 club for manual SC's..
Old 09-03-13, 06:01 PM
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Some interesting numbers in here, although I wish the '98 was a bit more rare.

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Old 09-03-13, 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by tmf2004
you definitely got a rare beast...
Thanks brotha!

Originally Posted by 1QWKGS4
Oh nice, you're the 3rd one so far on here.. Lets see who else... We should start the "422 Club" like the SC guys have the 1200 club for manual SC's..
Yeah we should! It would be interesting to see how many are on here.

Originally Posted by ThomasGS4
Some interesting numbers in here, although I wish the '98 was a bit more rare.
Give it some time, I'm pretty sure later down the road the 400's are gonna be really rare. They really hold their value now too so that's always a great sign for a 15yr old car
Old 09-04-13, 08:06 AM
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Originally Posted by ThomasGS4
Some interesting numbers in here, although I wish the '98 was a bit more rare.
First year of the 2GS redesign. Those probably have the most in quantity. I see 98's popping up everywhere....
Old 09-04-13, 01:08 PM
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ive got a black on black 2000 GS4, wonder if theres a way to find out how many of those were made.
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Originally Posted by talbott
ive got a black on black 2000 GS4, wonder if theres a way to find out how many of those were made.
You should "Read" the 1st page of this thread..
Old 09-04-13, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by 1QWKGS4
You should "Read" the 1st page of this thread..
I did, I dont see any numbers based off color combo anywhere, from what I understand the blacl on black and black on saddle were very uncommon.
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So far we don't know how many of what combo, just #'s produced of each model. I have a friend with 2000 Blk / Blk Platinum GS400 (not many blk/blk out there)
Old 09-04-13, 04:40 PM
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Thanks for posting those production numbers, 1QWKGS4. It's always nice to know that the 400/430 fraternity is a small one.....lol.

I had a friend of mine who was working at Lexus when I bought my 430. She was able to access some internal database that gave production numbers based on options and color combos. I never asked her to send me anything, but she told me that for my color combo (Millenium Silver Metallic with Ivory leather) and option package (every option offered that year, including cellular phone), there were 26 cars produced, or slightly under 1% of total production.

I wish she was still there, because I would really liked to have had access to that database.
Old 09-05-13, 07:30 AM
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Originally Posted by ntwrkguy1
Thanks for posting those production numbers, 1QWKGS4. It's always nice to know that the 400/430 fraternity is a small one.....lol.
Very true. I'm seeing a lot of 98-99 models lately but they are all 300's
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Just picked up a silver/black 05' 430 and figured this would be a good place for a first post. Look forward to being part of the community.


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