Taste of Lexus El Toro Marine Base, Irvine, CA
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Taste of Lexus El Toro Marine Base, Irvine, CA
Just a few shots I took at today's event. Very nicely done with some great food that fit the luxury settings.
Was fun to take the same model as my own and thrash it around an autocross setup. Was very impressed with how the car handled. Actually was able to get the rear to slip out some on a long sweeper but you could feel it coming on and and was easily controlled. Came away appreciating my ride even more.
Was also surprised that Lexus had four (2 each) S550 Mercedes and BMW750is to test along with the Lexus LS460 and LS460L. I guarantee that the new LS460 will be a hot seller here in California. Smooth, quiet and with 380 horses and an 8 speed trannie it moves out smartly. I took two drives with one of their professional drivers who know how to get the most out of the car. Impressive.
Photo of my ride.......
Was fun to take the same model as my own and thrash it around an autocross setup. Was very impressed with how the car handled. Actually was able to get the rear to slip out some on a long sweeper but you could feel it coming on and and was easily controlled. Came away appreciating my ride even more.
Was also surprised that Lexus had four (2 each) S550 Mercedes and BMW750is to test along with the Lexus LS460 and LS460L. I guarantee that the new LS460 will be a hot seller here in California. Smooth, quiet and with 380 horses and an 8 speed trannie it moves out smartly. I took two drives with one of their professional drivers who know how to get the most out of the car. Impressive.
Photo of my ride.......
Last edited by Gtidan; 09-25-06 at 07:32 PM.
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And the last one
The GS ES and IS Autocross setup. The route was pretty long and not many tight turns and one very nice long sweeper where you could get some speed. Was able to just feel the rear come out but was easily controlled. I drove a 330i a year ago on the same pavement at El Toro and I thought the IS handled every bit as good and in fact it didn't understeer nearly as much as the Bimmer as I remember it...
Last edited by Gtidan; 09-25-06 at 07:37 PM.
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They had several colors of LS460s on hand. Blue, Gold, and a Black one I believe. While they were pre-production models they looked completely finished off and were very plush inside.
Last edited by Gtidan; 09-23-06 at 05:01 PM.
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Fun event and strongly recommend attending if you have the chance. I've been to ones from BMW and Mercedes which are also fun. I would rate the Lexus and Mercedes about the same and the BMW much lower in terms of food and displays. BMW did have a autocross contest made up of teams and we drove 330is sedans. They also had professional drivers to take you on 'hot laps' like Mercedes and Lexus.
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it's a closed course with cones as you can see in one of the pics. you drive by yourself so you can really push the car as much or little as you want. of course that doesn't mean knock over all the cones, do burn outs and crash the car into the other cars. although you can push the car as much as you want, you'll be limited to the car in front of you if you catch up to them. that happened to me... i was having a blast the first half of the course until i caught up to the slow car in front of me. the rest of the course was quite boring...
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the self parking demonstration on the LS was pretty cool.. but the only thing was that they showed the demonstration AFTER all the initial programming/set up of the self parking, so its quicker than the actual time it would take to parallel park the car... NONETHELESS, great event, i was just disappointed at the lack of competitor cars for the other models like last year
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the self parking demonstration on the LS was pretty cool.. but the only thing was that they showed the demonstration AFTER all the initial programming/set up of the self parking, so its quicker than the actual time it would take to parallel park the car... NONETHELESS, great event, i was just disappointed at the lack of competitor cars for the other models like last year
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