Lexus/Toyota are great examples actually. They are generally in the older person, meticulous maintenance camp, in turn, their reliability is generally “good”.
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Counter with Dodge/Chrysler. They are generally bought by lower income people who tend towards abusing their vehicles while doing minimal maintenance, in…

Yes, the average Subaru WRX owner may fit a different profile than the average Toyota Camry owner. But we aren’t given data to that level of granularity, we’re given Toyota vs Subaru. And I’d suspect that the owner profile for your average Subaru owner isn’t so different from your average Toyota owner, beyond Subaru’s…

Likewise, overall reliability means nothing without ownership/maintenance records to back it up.
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Reliability reports miss out on these key points, which IMO, make them pretty useless.

Obligatory idiotic post about head gaskets

Living in Denver, we’re surrounded by Subarus. The mid 2000's Subaru crowd acts like a head gasket failing is no big deal. The early 2010's Subaru crowd acts like a little bit of oil consumption is to be expected.

If you want a pure driving experience, like what is offered in the old NSX, you probably drive a Toyobaru BR-Z/86 today. That’s as pure as it gets.

There’s like a billion choices for an automatic wagon out there with lot of gears. It’s called an SUV.

So, you only buy 10 year old Lexuses because you don’t like the grill on a brand new one.

You’re going to see a lot of this over the next 18 months. He’s got a measured response to things that comes across as a lot more genuine than a Bill Clinton type. He also seems like the type of person to never have a “you didn’t build that” moment.

Same comment, why would you buy this over a nicely equipped 4Runner?

I wonder how many potential customers they have put off.

The panel gap issue is one that is purely cosmetic and unrelated to the vehicle’s utility.

How do the proud union workers buying the same products they make, not care one bit about how well those products are made?

They still all have solid rears

I’m sorry. You confused me

That’s why pickup trucks aren’t one of the most popular vehicles in America.

I enjoyed my IS but I’m a bigger guy, and it just wasn’t that comfortable. My ‘07 LS was like driving a couch, but too floaty of a car to really enjoy. The GS’s have been just perfect: roomy, comfortable, but sporty-ish. I’ll probably be the last guy buying Lexus GS’s.

I got the ‘08 IS350 in ‘08, had it for two years. Traded for the ‘07 LS as I was doing 60 miles highway a day to work. Bought a Jeep for the weekends then got into offroading. Sold the Jeep, traded the LS for a new ‘11 FJ Cruiser, moved to Colorado. Didn’t have another one until the ‘11 GS460 in ‘15. Very limited…

The only one of those I bought new was the IS.  The LS and both GS’s I got lightly used for about half price.  And didn’t really lose that much when selling them.

I can see that you and I will be fighting over the right blue GS-F when they crack below $40K :) beautiful car, but I don’t miss the rear legroom in my IS.