mince condition.

All I wanted to say is that Lexus as a brand does not exist in Germany. Thats how it is. Plain and simple. Here is what your Google maps is pointing to:

There is not a single dealership for Lexus in Germanistan. Trust me. Thats Toyota. Or Honda. Or whatever subdivision of a japanese subdivisions subdivision. Even these are insignificant. I pretty much doubt that there is any japanese carmaker within the the top 10 of the german bestseller list. I must confess that I…

Lexus/Acura/Infiniti as brands do not exist over here in Germany. There is no dealership. On the bright side: Cadillac does still exist in Germany - and has never ever ceased its presence in Germany. A fact that americans never take pride in, possibly because americans are used to sales-by-the-million numbers. Thus…

I speak german and I can assure you that you definetely do NOT need german language skills to understand BMW-Nerd-Talk.

I like this one. It´s the famous

That`s absolutely and totally exaggerated!

Methinks some history might be useful here:

A Camper can be nice

AWS-Shopper. 1974.

Looks like a predecessor of Peugeot nez-de-cochon (=Pig nose) although from a different brand.

Well until late 80s the german language had no word for Offroader; SUV or anything the like. The collective term for these vehicles was "Jeep".

I always thought Canyonero was an early 90s Ford Explorer

Typenbezeichnung = type designation

Iin Germany Hanomag 2/10 (Kommissbrot) is considered as real predecessor of the Beetle.

I had several E30s -used cars of course- when I was a student (Germany). BMWE30 back in the 90s was the only way to get a real car for money that was not crappy italian/japanese/vw and could make a distance without "planning" several pit-stops.