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Old Feb 24, 2011 | 08:08 PM
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About to be a 3GS, but wondering your guys opinions:

07 gs350 awd, black sapphire pearl / cashmere, 38000 miles, nav, parking sensors, NO ml, NO rolling headlights for $25,300

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08 gs350 awd, obsidian / black, 49000 miles, nav, parking sensors, rolling headlights, rear sunshade, NO ml for 27,500

whats your guys take? Id say the 07 is a littler cleaner inside and out, but both are in excellent condition. Thanks!
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Old Feb 24, 2011 | 08:33 PM
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Does either have the CPO? That would be the deal breaker for me, then again a cleaner car with less mileage would is where I'd lean towards.
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Old Feb 24, 2011 | 08:45 PM
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I would go with the low miles car although it does not have that may toys to play with, The 08 is newer and has more but has some miles, depends on how long you will keep it and if it comes with a warranty or its a CPO.
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Old Feb 24, 2011 | 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by 97GS350
About to be a 3GS, but wondering your guys opinions:

07 gs350 awd, black sapphire pearl / cashmere, 38000 miles, nav, parking sensors, NO ml, NO rolling headlights for $25,300

OR

08 gs350 awd, obsidian / black, 49000 miles, nav, parking sensors, rolling headlights, rear sunshade, NO ml for 27,500

whats your guys take? Id say the 07 is a littler cleaner inside and out, but both are in excellent condition. Thanks!

for me, the price difference is too small to go with the 07. and the 07 has nasty beige leather.

10000 miles mileage isn't gonna make a big difference. The engine is still good. But the 08 has no bumper to bumper warranty left. but maybe there's no engine recall to deal with depending on vin #.

I don't like the beak on the 08+ models, especially on the darker colors, but I'd still go with the 08 in this case.

you got an even better deal that 'gsteve' from the other thread.

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Old Feb 25, 2011 | 03:36 AM
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Neither find a rwd!! FTW!!
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Old Feb 25, 2011 | 05:31 AM
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Thanks guys

Neither is CPO. Ill admit the black sapphire is really a nice color but I do prefer the black interior over the cashmere.

KBB and NADA both value the 08 higher than the 07

Cant do RWD as i live in RI.

So you guys think these are both good deals?....GSteves only had liek 31k miles though and it was an 08.

Any more opinions before i decide?
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Old Feb 25, 2011 | 05:52 AM
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id go with the 07 for the fact it still falls into the lexus 5yr/50k warranty
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Old Feb 25, 2011 | 06:29 AM
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What the heck are rolling headlights?

Black interior is the best looking interior on these cars, hands down! (Plus they are easy to keep looking clean) :P
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Old Feb 25, 2011 | 06:38 AM
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What the heck are rolling headlights?

Black interior is the best looking interior on these cars, hands down! (Plus they are easy to keep looking clean) :P
i'm gonna say it's the AFS feature where the lights turn with the front wheels
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Old Feb 25, 2011 | 06:53 AM
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i'm gonna say it's the AFS feature where the lights turn with the front wheels
That isn't standard on all 3GS? Mine has it, but I thought they all did. Then again, mine has some stuff that I think was standard before but became options in later years (like cooled seats?) so maybe that's one of them.
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Old Feb 25, 2011 | 06:58 AM
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AFS headlights arent standard but their pretty useless imo
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Old Feb 25, 2011 | 08:43 AM
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warranty is up on the 07 as it was built in late 06.

Yah the "rolling headlights" is the AFS feature, sorry for the confusion.

So what do you guys think?
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Originally Posted by 97GS350
warranty is up on the 07 as it was built in late 06.
que?

late 06 + 5 years = late 2011
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Originally Posted by 97GS350
Thanks guys

Neither is CPO. Ill admit the black sapphire is really a nice color but I do prefer the black interior over the cashmere.

KBB and NADA both value the 08 higher than the 07

Cant do RWD as i live in RI.

So you guys think these are both good deals?....GSteves only had liek 31k miles though and it was an 08.

Any more opinions before i decide?
But I think that GSteves was looking at a RWD vehicle so the price is lower, but yeah they should give a better price than that since its got nothing really in it, got any pics of these cars!
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Old Feb 25, 2011 | 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by IXI187IXI
que?

late 06 + 5 years = late 2011
basic warranty is 48 months or 50k miles.

powertrain is 72 months or 70k miles.
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