Comparo: 535i Versus Just Announced 2013 Lexus GS 350

esqu1re · 08-19-2011, 02:13 PM

I really want to like new lexus products, but they all end up looking cheap.

jlstyle · 08-19-2011, 02:15 PM

Somehow I resemble Audi for GS front and rear is without a doubt a Sonata.

theArgiope · 08-19-2011, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by esqu1re

I really want to like new lexus products, but they all end up looking cheap.

Plastic is the new walnut, my friend.

E92LNGCGY · 08-19-2011, 02:19 PM

Front: Lexus
Side/Rear: BMW

Interior of the Lexus is similar to LFA and it does look good. At the end of the day German car for me. I just can't pay $50k for a Japanese car. It's not that they are no good but I feel my money is better spent on a German brand.

The F10 needs to lose some weight though.

Remonster · 08-19-2011, 02:21 PM

I knew someone would bring up the weight, you have to remember BMW's curb weight (this is true for all German companies and a few others) includes the driver, 3/4 tank of gas and some luggage. I'm pretty sure Japanese curb weight is usually the car itself, sometimes even without its fluids or fuel.

eamon · 08-19-2011, 02:22 PM

Once you go German, you can't go back.

Bodie217 · 08-19-2011, 02:26 PM

It looks like Lexus stole some E9X M3 styling cues when doing the front bumper, and the rest of the car looks like an IS. Doesn't flow nearly as well as the BMW.

theArgiope · 08-19-2011, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by HomeRun217

It looks like Lexus stole some E9X M3 styling cues when doing the front bumper, and the rest of the car looks like an IS. Doesn't flow nearly as well as the BMW.

Yea; very curious if the Lexus exterior is the vision of one designer, or design by a committee of suits telling the artists what to sketch.

-=Hot|Ice=- · 08-19-2011, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by SamS

Dang Lexus sure is copying BMW LED tail lights!

BMW is the one copying Lexus. Lexus first introduced those lights on the LS a couple years ago.

bimmerJP · 08-19-2011, 02:50 PM

Lexus vs BMW... Are you kidding me... Lexus is MB kind, and even MB can beat it.
Japanese only has Infiniti that can come closer to Germans, but still.... Not comparable.

-=Hot|Ice=- · 08-19-2011, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by jerrypon83

Lexus vs BMW... Are you kidding me... Lexus is MB kind, and even MB can beat it.
Japanese only has Infiniti that can come closer to Germans, but still.... Not comparable.

Please tell me you're joking.

bimmerJP · 08-19-2011, 02:52 PM

BTW, that Lexus logo on the steering is kinda gross... not joking here...

Sedan_Clan · 08-19-2011, 02:53 PM

As usual, the Lexus styling leaves more to be desired. I'll take the 535!

bimmerJP · 08-19-2011, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by -=Hot|Ice=-

Please tell me you're joking.

Do you mean the Infiniti part or Lexus vs BMW part?
If you mean the Infiniti part I can say... YES!
Lexus vs BMW part... no, im serious.

theArgiope · 08-19-2011, 02:56 PM

Lexus markets itself more like Mercedes... Even sounds like the same voice over talent.

I'd take an E550 over a GS too.

=D

SE3P_to_E90 · 08-19-2011, 03:04 PM

The thing i hate most about lexus' is the terrible body lines along the rear door. For BMW's, the rear door flows very well. This lexus, along w/ the current IS, seems like the proportions just don't work. If you follow the rear door line (toward the trunk), it looks like a fat chick w/ a bra that's just too tight -- fat bulges. But, then again, fat chicks need loving too

Thud · 08-19-2011, 03:06 PM

Yay, Lexus finally adds LED light strips... because every modern luxury car must have LED light strips.

bobbyd1961 · 08-19-2011, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Questforpower

I would love to drive the gs to see how it handles given that it's lighter.

i agree the lexus is faster . im dissapointed with the speed reduction on the new 535 s the older model. lexus should be faster

Jblack4083 · 08-19-2011, 03:39 PM

THe face of the GS is amazing. It's profile isn't bad either.

CSWM3 · 08-19-2011, 03:40 PM

Sorry, I am not buying a toyota, they may be reliable but they suck when it comes to driving experience and I hate the retards who think Lexus is a hyped up brand and not a toyota....lmfao when I hear this stuff about people who call lexus as toyotas being fan boys, that is just idiotic....its a toyota and that is where it ends, I personally think people who spend money on a lexus over a toyota are literally pissing their money away

Q4P · 08-19-2011, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by coldsmoothwildM3

Sorry, I am not buying a toyota, they may be reliable but they suck when it comes to driving experience and I hate the retards who think Lexus is a hyped up brand and not a toyota....lmfao when I hear this stuff about people who call lexus as toyotas being fan boys, that is just idiotic....its a toyota and that is where it ends, I personally think people who spend money on a lexus over a toyota are literally pissing their money away

I didn't know toyota made rear wheel drive sedans in the US? intelligence abounds as always...

DooBs · 08-19-2011, 04:07 PM

wow that interior on the gs is great.
Both have its strong points. Its just a matter of taste and wants

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bimmerJP First Lieutenant 11 Rep 380 Posts Drives: 2008 e90 335i Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Texas, the United States of America, Planet Earth, Universe iTrader: (0)	Lexus vs BMW... Are you kidding me... Lexus is MB kind, and even MB can beat it. Japanese only has Infiniti that can come closer to Germans, but still.... Not comparable.
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theArgiope Private 1 Rep 70 Posts Drives: 2011 e90 M3 Join Date: May 2010 Location: San Francisco Bay Area iTrader: (0)	Lexus markets itself more like Mercedes... Even sounds like the same voice over talent. I'd take an E550 over a GS too. =D
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