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Lexus Sales Model
I would make a wager that 95-99% of Lexus new car owners end up with a vehicle they did not want…wrong color, wrong interior, wrong trim, vehicle loaded with Christmas tree ornaments, dealer add-ons…etc…But the sheep keep buying…Lexus is just like Henry Ford…. I will build you a car you like so long as it is black. This is really sad they get away with it….and the Lexus sheep put up with it.
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I would make a wager that 95-99% of Lexus new car owners end up with a vehicle they did not want…wrong color, wrong interior, wrong trim, vehicle loaded with Christmas tree ornaments, dealer add-ons…etc…But the sheep keep buying…Lexus is just like Henry Ford…. I will build you a car you like so long as it is black. This is really sad they get away with it….and the Lexus sheep put up with it.
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Wow I feel lucky that I am in the 1%to 5% group. Whoop Whoop. Got exactly what I wanted and with a hybrid with a waiting list. Turned down one waited a month and got the perfect one. You know what they say about when you assume.
Last edited by Freds430; Jan 8, 2026 at 03:47 PM.
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It seems OP has has signed up on the forum with a sack of sour grapes
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Welcome to the real world post Covid. But, in all fairness this has been going on for many years for many European and Japanese and Korean, etc manufacturers!. People who actually NEED a vehicle resort to whatever is required to get it. Don’t blame the dealers and manufacturers for that.Dealers having flooring charges on every unit in inventory. Manufacturers allocate quotas to dealers so common sense says the will order the most popular vehicle with every option they can throw on it. Again, not the dealers fault. More like Econ 101. Buyers are not sheep, maybe negotiators but surely not sheep. They want what they want. If it’s not available they have a choice. We are picking up our new 26 RX on Monday and it is the exact color combo we wanted with all the add ons we wanted except it has an $85 option for device cords we didn’t really want. But, were we not going to get it because it had one option we didn’t really want. No. That would just be stump dumb. We just negotiated it away during the process.
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I would make a wager that 95-99% of Lexus new car owners end up with a vehicle they did not want…wrong color, wrong interior, wrong trim, vehicle loaded with Christmas tree ornaments, dealer add-ons…etc…But the sheep keep buying…Lexus is just like Henry Ford…. I will build you a car you like so long as it is black. This is really sad they get away with it….and the Lexus sheep put up with it.
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That original post is an odd take. The dealer from whom I've bought my two Lexi orders cars with the trim their customers generally like (in a cold weather climate). As such we bought both cars very easily...got the colors we wanted, the trim we wanted. The only deviation is we got a few extra options we didn't particularly want or need but they weren't expensive. Very similar to what we experienced when we used to buy Volvos.
I'm sure there are a lot of solid statistics backing up the claim that "95-99" of Lexus owners ended up with a vehicle they did not want."
I'm sure there are a lot of solid statistics backing up the claim that "95-99" of Lexus owners ended up with a vehicle they did not want."
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That original post is an odd take. The dealer from whom I've bought my two Lexi orders cars with the trim their customers generally like (in a cold weather climate). As such we bought both cars very easily...got the colors we wanted, the trim we wanted. The only deviation is we got a few extra options we didn't particularly want or need but they weren't expensive. Very similar to what we experienced when we used to buy Volvos.
I'm sure there are a lot of solid statistics backing up the claim that "95-99" of Lexus owners ended up with a vehicle they did not want."
I'm sure there are a lot of solid statistics backing up the claim that "95-99" of Lexus owners ended up with a vehicle they did not want."
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Seems like the OP is somewhat of a Forum troll, I see this all the time on other Forums. Also, they haven't been back since making that silly opening post. I dunno, my dealer searched up and down the Northeast to find the car my wife wanted and succeeded. Had the vehicle brought from 70 miles away, excellent work.
Last edited by rule18; Jan 10, 2026 at 02:44 PM.
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Seems like the OP is somewhat of a Forum troll, I see this all the time on other Forums. Also, they haven't been back since making that silly opening post. I dunno, my dealer searched up and down the Northeast to find the car my wife wanted and succeeded. Had the vehicle brought from 70 miles away, excellent work.