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Old 10-15-08, 05:49 AM
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Just want to know if it is my eyes. Twice I have seen Camrys with chrome kits on the front, and thought they were 460s at first glance. Do I need to see the eye doc, or are they kind of similar?
Old 10-15-08, 10:08 AM
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lol... you think thats bad im worse


i saw an LS460 riding my a$$ and i thought oh crap whats this guy with his POS camry (not a POS i just said it lol) riding my a$$ for...


switched lanes and BOOM!

ls460..


felt so bad i thought i had to pray to the lexus gods
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I always mistake it as ES350 from my Rearview mirror.
Old 10-15-08, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by blacksc400
I always mistake it as ES350 from my Rearview mirror.
Me too!

I love the look of the LS460 it is just that the latest ES is following the same lines so closely that it takes a "second" maybe "third" look to distinguish.

If it is any consolation I have had to do double takes on some Mercedes models. I even passed an E63 STATION WAGON the other day and looked closely for all the correct badging (it was all there). The driver look more like a Volvo owner maybe an engineer with a hot-rod streak!
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You guys are just plain bad....you in a few years or months you will be buying one!! yes, you guys are right it is not distinctive enough from the other lexus models these days....well that what you get when you wanna follow the benz and bimmers...have them all look alike!!
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I will still get a white/blk LS460L.
Old 10-15-08, 01:39 PM
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JDMUSCLE is right, I will be getting one in a few years....lol
Old 10-15-08, 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by JDMUSCLE
You guys are just plain bad....you in a few years or months you will be buying one!!
Not me.. driving my '04 to the ground (hopefully not for 20 years). I always loved the LS430 and getting one was like "dream come true." LIVING MY DREAM !!!!
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my dream became a nightmare
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i'm sure the ls600hL looks nothing like an ES/camry or anything else from the front
Old 10-15-08, 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by AlexusAnja
Not me.. driving my '04 to the ground (hopefully not for 20 years). I always loved the LS430 and getting one was like "dream come true." LIVING MY DREAM !!!!
soon that cloud 9 you are talking about in signature will go away and you will want that 460.....believe me ...
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Now if I could only mistake my wife for Angelina Jolie..
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uh oh.. lmao
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Originally Posted by Kaiserseal
Now if I could only mistake my wife for Angelina Jolie..

so your stating she looks kinda like her? lol
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dude if i was up to my old antics i would have said something to the effect of "thats so funny cuz i did confuse your wife with angelina jolie last night" but that would have just been down right rude. thats very funny though, i'll have to see if i can mistake my wife for lucy lu or something... she really hates it when people say she looks like lucy lu,,, just cuz she's asian. but japanese people always say i look like jack bower... kinda racist too perhaps...

i always thought the 460 shared a lot of similarities (other than the front,,, more like the sides and rear) with that new redesigned 7 series bmw that came out with like 2 years ago..


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