And that exact point along with it being a Toyota to begin with means the youths they are claiming to market them to will not buy them. Lack of flash in super high-end luxury cars is a dead end, look at the mid-2000s Maybach.
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With some of the rumors about Mercedes coming out with an even higher brand than Maybach I wouldn’t be surprised if they brought the Century here as its own brand sold through Lexus dealerships.
Aston DBX starts around $185k. G550 is $150k. Escalade starts at $80k. So yes, a G, DBX, or two Escalades. There have been cars sold here (attempted) that have tried to cater to it. Look at the old Maybach. They were mostly driven by the owners (new ones are mostly driven by owners too) and they are sales failures…
Are you seriously trying to argue that we shouldn’t limit the ability of children to drive motor vehicles on public roads? I would argue you should have a driver’s license to use a golf cart on the street, but at least a permit is something.
If it’s not a Toyota it’ll be its own brand and still won’t be bought by the rich youths who want a prestige brand. It won’t be a Lexus, the predator grill won’t fit on there and they’re just releasing the Texas which is the same size.
Sorry Toyota, but anyone in that younger demographic that has enough money to buy a flashy luxury SUV isn’t going to be seen in anything with a Toyota badge. At $170k they’re buying a G-Wagon, DBX, or two Escalades.
Not only don’t they have seatbelts, the worst part IMO is no doors and likely a jump seat on the back with zero protection.
It means you’re at least the minimum age that the state deems fit to operate a vehicle on public roads, and that you likely had some driver’s education to go along with it.
The mid-2000s Ford GT.
From what I’ve heard with their new lightweight batteries you really need to drive the newest 911s regularly anyway to keep them working right.
Not sure what you’re going on about, but someone taking over your lease has always needed approval from the leasing company. I had a few clients who wanted to pawn off their leases through one of those swap sites and sometimes they could, sometimes they couldn’t. The sub-leaser still needed to be approved for the…
That’s not a good excuse when they designed this car well after the I6 was (I6 came out in MY2019 so it was designed well before then) and they knew from the get-go that there would be a lower-end model.
“What you don’t get as standard are things like a heads-up display and active driver assistance features like adaptive cruise, lane change assist, etc. This isn’t surprising since they’re still options on the near-$200k SL63, but it’s still annoying that safety features are optional in 2023.”
Yeahhh good on them for requiring it.
Yeah our cars probably don’t have the newest bluetooth software and no wireless carplay (2014 and 2018), but wired vs bluetooth audio with a good sound system is night and day sound-wise. My car’s Harmon Kardon and wife’s Bose both have so much more fullness and less muddiness in the lows-mids when plugged in, to me…
Ah, early CUE, where they didn’t want to admit it was shit so they pretended it was too complex to learn on your own and hired a whole staff of genius-style people to teach it to new owners.
Your car can charge 2-6x faster than almost every other EV on the market... because you paid for that capability.
Only if the leasing company allows it. Which in this case would be Porsche.
Unless Michelins are the only option, they’re almost never worth it for a non-tracked car. It’s diminishing returns, a good set of Continentals may be 50% more than the walmart brands but they’re 50-100% better, Michelins are 20+% more but maaaaybe 5% better at best...