RON430

Did that get your attention?

According to WSJ, January 14, 2004. Hottest models for December 2003.

Model/Days on the Lot before Sale/Averge Price

1.Toyota Prius/8/23,333
2.Mercedes SL Class/12/104,084
3.Mini Cooper/12/22,827
4.Toyota Sienna/12/29,596
5.Honda Pilot/13/30,790
6.Lexus GX470/13/48,366
7.Lexus LS430/13/57,569
8.Lexus ES330/14/32,920
9.Acura MDX/15/39,464
10.Honda CR-V/16/21,510
11.Lexus RX330/16/39,599

List is top 10 but went to 11 because of ties. GS needs that new model but good grief, four Lexus and two more Toyota's in the top 10. Any notion of the demise of Lexus is greatly exaggerated.

jet864

Holy...good to see. This is really good news, showing Toyota and LExus are still going strong and not letting up. So, 6 from the Toyota family, 3 from the Honda family, 1 MB and 1 MINI. I say over half is a ver strong accomplishment. I like this study because it deals with ahrd facts only. No opinions to argue with, no editors who could be biased. This and the reliability tests show ver accurate and useful facts IMO.

James

vboy418

haha it did get my attention... great to see 6 of the 11 cars being toyota and lexus.. they are doing something right...

Captain Bone

Biggest surprise to me was the SL and Mini Cooper.

The SL because of the price and the Cooper, because, well, I don't see many of them!

-Anthony

Davtown

To tell you the truth, the Cooper is one of my favorite practical, real world cars. They look like really fun toys, I'd rock the Cooper S any day of the week, those things are a blast to drive.

jet864

Where I live I see lots of both. I live right by and kinda in a rich little suburb where soccer moms and microsoft dads get everything new and different that comes out. H2's, new 7 series, and 5 series all over the place, SL's and Mini Coopers pretty often too. Its kinda ridiculous to see a 5 foot 2 inch wife driving a brand new H2 on some nice 24's with two kids in the back.

James

Gojirra99

There's still a ~2 years waiting list for the SL in some places, so you'd expect their days on lot to be even less than that.

RON430

Bingo. If you look at what the WSJ reported, in order to make the hottest seller list, you needed the shortest average time in inventory. The ways to make the list are either to have buyers lined up or have very little supply. Or both. Sort of surprised the new SL had any amount of time in inventory. As for the Mini, I don't see many of them around here either so I have to guess that bimmer is keeping a tight reign on supply. But seeing as how the results were for December, I would have thought the five would have been on it, being just released to that pent up demand. Then again, having seen only two on the street so far and also seeing a bunch on the lot at the bimmer dealer next to Magnussen Lexus, maybe it isn't such a surprise.

But I really have to say that with all the hand wringing about the demise of the Lexus brand, primarily driven on this site by the fortunes of the GS (and a lesser extent the IS), it was easy to get lulled into thinking that Lexus just didn't have any pop anymore. Seeing every Lexus model other than the GS and IS on the top ten list for December makes you speculate on where Lexus emphasis is going to be.

bluelex

its always good 2 c that no matter what some say we r still in the top ten ...

RON430

In the top 10? For December 2003, Toyota/Lexus owns the top ten hottest models in the US.

bluelex

thats what i meant that we r through out the top ten from top 2 bottom....

bitkahuna

iTrader: (20)

Tiger's marrying this hot model...

D2-AUTOSPORT

I'll take 2 of the last one please, thank you

bluelex

is she in the top ten car models of the year?

One HoT

iTrader: (5)

Do I see another hot women thread in the mist? haha....

I love owning a Lex...Brings much enjoy in my life...