Lexus Confronts Midlife Crisis With Aging SUVs Losing to Rivals
#106
Equity is not market capitalisation for stock market.
TMC's $180 billion dollar equity shows their further huge potential to invest money into R&D and factories, while Tesla's $5 billion in equity shows that they are already stretched to the limit for borrowings.
TMC is doing fine.
Far more companies in dire straits than TMC.
TMC has battery packs up to some 110 kWh underway, and TMC products most likely to have superior build quality & long term reliability - patience is a virtue...
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Last edited by peteharvey; 01-03-20 at 03:51 PM.
#107
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but you're probably right, given the greater saturation of the market and toyota's cautiousness in investing in lexus maybe your view is much more realistic, but i can still want EPIC.
#108
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EPIC based on my prior experience with body on frame Toyota or Lexus SUVs would be to enhance them slightly. Full-time 4WD, a GX or 4Runner do not need to get bigger, they are perfect, losing the V8 in the GX might be a bad move, definitely do not go turbo. An LX should grow to become a Sequoia size. I would be on the fence if they moved away from solid axle, maybe for the LX.... And don't mess up the powertrain by using more gears like they did in the Tacoma which apparently everyone hates.......so yeah, don't mess it up!
#110
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For Toyota Motor Co, its Toyota brand finished the year down 7.2% for December and off 2.0% for all of 2019. Its luxury Lexus brand was basically flat off just 0.6% in December and down 0.1% for the full year. Those results were propped up by a 5.6% increase in Lexus SUV sales in 2019, marking the best year ever for the brand in that segment
https://www.forbes.com/sites/edgarst.../#5d169c0267d6
So Lexus sales are flat but Lexus has the best SUV sales ever in 2019? A counterpoint to all the people who sales Lexus SUVs are not doing well.
#111
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/edgarst.../#5d169c0267d6
So Lexus sales are flat but Lexus has the best SUV sales ever in 2019? A counterpoint to all the people who sales Lexus SUVs are not doing well.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/edgarst.../#5d169c0267d6
So Lexus sales are flat but Lexus has the best SUV sales ever in 2019? A counterpoint to all the people who sales Lexus SUVs are not doing well.
#112
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Toyota and Lexus just need to revamp the large SUVs. I don’t think there is any need to do anything with the smaller SUVs. IMO the large SUVs have been neglected for far too long. As soon as the Tundra, Sequoia, Land Cruiser, GX and LX get a complete makeover sales should shine. It is odd that these big boys have been forgotten.
#115
I think another stopgap fix would be a hybrid onto the GX or LX- they would capture some massive sales including myself potentially. Their fuel economy would potentially be back to the average of large suv's nowadays (e.g. Merc GLS, BMW X7, Lincold Navigator) with none of the reliability issues of those.
#116
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Nice!
So has your BOF experience with this Lexus...has it matched or exceeded your expectations of ownership? Plan to keep it a while?
So has your BOF experience with this Lexus...has it matched or exceeded your expectations of ownership? Plan to keep it a while?
#119
I think another stopgap fix would be a hybrid onto the GX or LX- they would capture some massive sales including myself potentially. Their fuel economy would potentially be back to the average of large suv's nowadays (e.g. Merc GLS, BMW X7, Lincold Navigator) with none of the reliability issues of those.
#120
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Thread Starter
I think another stopgap fix would be a hybrid onto the GX or LX- they would capture some massive sales including myself potentially. Their fuel economy would potentially be back to the average of large suv's nowadays (e.g. Merc GLS, BMW X7, Lincold Navigator) with none of the reliability issues of those.
Last edited by Toys4RJill; 01-04-20 at 07:21 AM.