rev up your engines, today I'm gonna tell you why the gs350 are really good cars
though most people say these are very good-looking cars with an exception here
great candy apple red but they painted the aluminum car here and it's coming
off on head side and on that side I mean that's kind of crazy he's my wife's
Lexus that's eight years older and the rubber molding is still in pretty good
shape and looks fine they shouldn't have done that really curse has the chrome
plated sure it's plastic but it's chrome-plated plastic handles it still
look good where this has the painted hand also as you can see they're ready
getting a little bit chipped here hey I like the chrome ones myself now as you
can see as we go over to the car there's the rear differential
this baby is rear wheel drive a classic car as you can see inside the front
wheel there's no dry shaft here this isn't front-wheel drive this is
rear-wheel drive only it has a legendary Toyota v6 engines that are known for
lasting forever but at the same time it puts out 305 horsepower really reliable
horsepower it's a quick fun car to drive around in an ad respect for my many
years experience of working on cars with these you're better with the v6 305 a
lot of horsepower you buy a Lexus with the v8 engine they cost more to fix
they're harder to work on especially if they're all-wheel drive versions as an
example I could change the starter and this thing out in about 45 minutes if it
had been a v8 Toyota Lexus engine I would have to pull the intake manifold
off it would have taken me hours and hours and cost the customer a small
fortune because of the design the engine not my little cramped in here
buy really that's just a bunch of plastic beauty covers bunch of nonsense as far
as I'm concerned you can see nobody ever even put this on tight the clips are all
gone it's just sitting there, we'll even take this stupid beauty cover off now
that that stuff is taken off you can see it's relatively easy to work on too, not that
they need work very often there's 3 spark plugs are just on the top very
easy to get to on the other side they're in the same position all you got to do
is take off the rubber intake duct that's all then you can get to all those
three spark plugs it's a real easy engine to work on putting in here like I
worn on the back they painted it and the paint came off why didn't they
just leave it nice and silver I think it looked better with the silver against
the red then all red and then the pink comes off she just loved it silver it
looks perfectly fine silver you're really you kind of wonder if you look at
the door it's got the chrome going around it they
should've just after the chrome up here instead of painting that stupid piece, now
this baby's got 139,000 miles on it it still runs like a top
she's got all the bells and whistles that modern luxury cars have really
comfortable seats lots of room in the back the obligatory sunroof of course
they're totally useless here in Houston because it's so hot you never want to
open the things now I do have to say it as the usual Lexus faded plastic
headlamps they do tend to make them too cheap but you can get aftermarket ones
but the overall look and power and a ride and a four-door sedan you really
can't beat it at the price that these things go for especially use not some
guys like the Acura is better some guys like the infinitis better but not a
little hold up like these Lexus is doing the infinities their money pits when
they get to be 10 years old 11 years old over a hundred thousand miles the acuras
are somewhat better but they still won't hold up as long and break down as little
as one of these Lexus's with a v6 engine one and of course it's got a decent
sized trunk that goes in deep too, these things were well thought out of course
the lexuses they're known for quality this thing has the six-speed Automatic transmission
one of the best they ever made and it's v6 engine same thing they can just run
I've seen these things with four hundred thousand miles on a the original engine
original transjmission still drove and shifted like a dream
they're not like anything of those crazy German luxury cars here's the air filter
one two three four, that' how easy you can change it the battery is even easy to get to
it's right there you know does it take half the car on like some another
Porsche SUV you got to take the driver's seat out to change the battery this
thing whoop in and out it goes easy to change and me I love the old
style grills I can't stand those new why wide-open scowling mouth ones I think
they're ridiculous but everybody's use them I would rather have this car than a
brand new one to tell you the truth for how it looks now these cars do have one
big problem is if you buy a new they're really expensive and good use one still
go for quite a bit of money you can save quite a bit buying them use but you're
still gonna pay quite a bit because they're popular they're rear-wheel drive
and they're Lexus's that can run forever really the truth of the matter with its
being rear-wheel drive v6 customer wants to sell this car Scotty's gonna buy it
because I miss driving a rear-wheel drive car I like my wife's Lexus it's an
ES 300 but it's front-wheel drive it does tend to oversteer sure it rides
great but this thing is a lot more fun to drive yes just as dependable as a
rolled one is you can't go wrong with one of these GS 350, so if you never want
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