Hmmmmmm....while I appreciate the information in this little story/ad about this 02 SC430, I’m certain I don’t agree with the underlying and implied message the SC430’s are not a ‘real’ sports car.

No, it’s a RELIABLE luxury sports convertible cruiser. It is not some austere, uncomfortable, overpriced, and mechanically dealer depended European import. Our SC430 Lexus gives endless hours of enjoyment to its owner and passengers while those ‘real’ sports cars spend much of their lives supporting mechanics, dealership owners, while causing frowns, frustrations and drained accounts.

The SC430s are a reliable fun-to-drive, comfortable to sit in, for two, wind through my thinning hair, sports car. Weather it’s (homophone intended) Southern California or South Florida this year round Coupe knows its place in the hearts, and souls, of many. Sure, the SC430 may never have the fall-to-their-knees, koolaid drinking Jim Jones fanatics. Instead we are the ones satisfied with money-in-the-bank, driving down the road, and only stopping to offer to call a tow truck for that just got-out-of-the-shop, now broken down again Italian supercars.

It’s true, some SC430 owners keep their convertible car locked up as a garage Queen. And, for those of you who live in more frigid zones, I’m sadden you do not have the chance to drop-the-top on a frigidly crisp but clear February day. Heck, there might even be a person or two who has one hidden in dimly lite corner of a collection of car memorabilia, but the fact is the car IS in the collection.

So the car may be the Rodney Dangerfield of sports cars, you know the one always looking for respect. But it’s my SC convertible, and not only do I love it, I drive it proudly.