2013 GS & 2013 ES Side by Side Comparo
08-21-12, 08:50 AM
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2013 GS & 2013 ES Side by Side Comparo
Ever wondered what the 2013 GS looks like next to the 2013 ES? Here they are both in Starfire Pearl.
08-21-12, 10:41 AM
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08-21-12, 10:50 AM
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These wheels are nice: 
Unfortunately, such CANNOT be said with these ones below:
Ah gawd........my eyes are in pain. Such superb-looking car is being ruined by some ghastly looking eyesores.
Kill it kill it with fire.
P.S.
Someone should murder the designer who made that abominable wheel design
Unfortunately, such CANNOT be said with these ones below:
Ah gawd........my eyes are in pain. Such superb-looking car is being ruined by some ghastly looking eyesores.
Kill it kill it with fire.
P.S.
Someone should murder the designer who made that abominable wheel design
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08-21-12, 11:14 AM
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GS for me any day.
GS has the essential core ingredients - GS will be much better styling at mid-life facelift; just needs "cleaner" tail light lenses, and more stylish sports-luxury alloy wheels.
IMO, ES won't improve much at facelift.
IMO, previous 2007-12 ES was the most gorgeous ES ever...
GS has the essential core ingredients - GS will be much better styling at mid-life facelift; just needs "cleaner" tail light lenses, and more stylish sports-luxury alloy wheels.
IMO, ES won't improve much at facelift.
IMO, previous 2007-12 ES was the most gorgeous ES ever...
08-21-12, 11:49 AM
#9
The two look about the same, just different bumper. I do like the ES trunk and taillight look bigger and bolder than GS.
The GS interior look nicer than ES (of course) otherwise who gonna buy the GS.
Both wheels are so awful. (fire the wheels designer please!) But make sense so Lexus could sell their accessories wheels.
ES have power trunk & rear cross traffic detection, panoramic glass roof. GS not! :-O (not make any sense)
For sure ES will be selling more than GS. The new ES look much better and bigger than their previous gen with the tail look like LS.
Both ES & GS need new motors & tranny to improve gas millage thought.
The GS interior look nicer than ES (of course) otherwise who gonna buy the GS.
Both wheels are so awful. (fire the wheels designer please!) But make sense so Lexus could sell their accessories wheels.
ES have power trunk & rear cross traffic detection, panoramic glass roof. GS not! :-O (not make any sense)
For sure ES will be selling more than GS. The new ES look much better and bigger than their previous gen with the tail look like LS.
Both ES & GS need new motors & tranny to improve gas millage thought.
08-21-12, 12:21 PM
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I also got to play with them and take pics of them side by side and the details are very different. The GS is much more tight and athletic looking whereas the ES looks more laid back. The GS has significantly shorter overhangs as well.
From a marketing perspective it makes sense, now you can tell a Lexus a mile away and it's better to confuse a Lexus with another Lexus than other cars. Also if anyone remotely even copies that front end it will be an obvious rip.
They have enough differences in person to not look the same and the ES is larger believe it or not. The interior of the ES is huge especially the rear compared to the GS.
Even in sport mode the ES drives nothing like a GS, responses are much slower and feedback is much less. The GS drives like an amazing machine.
From a marketing perspective it makes sense, now you can tell a Lexus a mile away and it's better to confuse a Lexus with another Lexus than other cars. Also if anyone remotely even copies that front end it will be an obvious rip.
They have enough differences in person to not look the same and the ES is larger believe it or not. The interior of the ES is huge especially the rear compared to the GS.
Even in sport mode the ES drives nothing like a GS, responses are much slower and feedback is much less. The GS drives like an amazing machine.
08-21-12, 12:44 PM
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I understand this strategy for Lexus, but I prefer to have cars in different market segments to be at least distinguishable from one another. BMW 3-5-7 all look very different, and the same goes for MB C-E-S; though less so for Audi 4-6-8.
On the road, I sometimes have trouble telling apart the front of CT and GS, and I'm a guy who can usually identify a car at night just by looking at the oncoming headlight. Now add in ES, LS, and probably IS when it has a refresh, I see this problem only getting worse.
If I'm paying $20k extra for a GS than a CT, I want it to look different, damn it!
On the road, I sometimes have trouble telling apart the front of CT and GS, and I'm a guy who can usually identify a car at night just by looking at the oncoming headlight. Now add in ES, LS, and probably IS when it has a refresh, I see this problem only getting worse.
If I'm paying $20k extra for a GS than a CT, I want it to look different, damn it!
08-21-12, 03:31 PM
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Are you joking? The 5 and the 7 series look very similar and for good reason : they're basically the same car since the 5 series is just a modified 7 series platform. That's even worse than looking similar(which they do).
08-21-12, 07:16 PM
#14
nice pics,,, these cars IMO do not look similar. and it's crazy that the ES is larger. i know it's always been longer but now it looks wider. i like the hidden like fogs on the ES as opposed to the right on the bumper fogs on the GS.
08-21-12, 08:12 PM
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Well, they do look similar and the ES is a nice-looking sedan, but if the GS looked like that I wouldn't have bought it. There is something more aggressive looking about the GS. It is almost a more traditional sedan, where the ES looks more organic with a longer front overhang (due to FWD) and lower roofline.