Did you guys know that?
And I think they also did a great job at it. GS (Known as Aristo in Japan) is very powerful looking and is a very high-performance sedan, especiall with 300hp it has.

That's one of my favourite cars! I love it!

Yup, the last generation GS300 was done by Italdesign. Very gorgeous car!

I own a GS400 V8 here in the States ,,, this car is also only for US and Canada Sales.... more info to give the GS300 uses the Toyota Supra inline 6 cylinder engine and the Aristo is the exact same engine and the Toyota Supra Turbo engine,,,,, I love this car very nice powerful and well built. its hard to get modification done to the GS400 because of small space to work in and I would like to add any after market parts are $$$:( the Aristo in the other hand can be modified to fit your personal needs good luck guys

i drove my friends GS400..... good fun :D

http://www.fantasycars.com/sedans/japan/lexgs400.jpg http://www.fantasycars.com/sedans/japan/lexgs400side.jpg

I really love it.

Originally posted by BBD
...give the GS300 uses the Toyota Supra inline 6 cylinder engine and the Aristo is the exact same engine and the Toyota Supra Turbo engine...

Anybody ever hear of someone swaping in the TT, including the fancy bits from the Supra? I'd love to see pics. Same question goes for the SC300.

My dad just bought a 2001 GS430. VERY quick for a sedan:D how do you post pictures on here??? thnx later

DOH DOH DOH!!! stupid me, i figured out how to post pics now. i hope it works. if it doesnt then please tell me how to.later

heres another one:D

if any wants to let me know how to post more than one pic at a time feel free to tell me

Originally posted by CRESSIDA
if any wants to let me know how to post more than one pic at a time feel free to tell me

You cant. You can only upload 1 file at a time. :)

Originally posted by kbslacker
You cant. You can only upload 1 file at a time. :)

C'mon, kb, give him the whole answer! :rolleyes: :D

CRESSIDA, "you can only upload 1 file at a time" as he said, but you can post as many pictures as you like if you already have them online, on your own webspace. Use [*img][/*img] tags (without the stars ;) ) around the URL of a picture.

If you don't have a server to upload them to other than here, then he's right... "You can only upload 1 file at a time."

While the first Aristos (JZS141/147) were designed by Ital Design's Giugiaro the current body style GS (JZS160/161) was designed inhouse by Akihiro Nagaya.

If you guys are more interested in Lexus cars, I suggest try a Lexus specific site like www.clublexus.com. MUCH more information that what's here...

As for dropping in a Turbo motor, it's been done by a few people. Pretty complicated unless you have the entire front clip. I've seen some right hand drive conversions done too (to American GS's)

There are also a few supercharger applications available for the GS300 and 400, and soon, the 430.

The GS is a great car, I just hate it when some people, who can bearly afford the car anyways, try to "fix it up" and put one some sh*tty cheap wheels and basically make their GS's look like some ghetto Civic or Integra (as opposed to WELL DONE Civics and Integras). You know, the Pop-Boys special car "treatment"...sometimes, it should be just left alone!

Check the picture below...done right.

Yes Lexus maybe is the best of japanese sucking cars but it is still beated by The Big Three - Mercedes, Audi and B M W :biggrin2: . Don't you think so ;) ?

no way...... Lexus kills Audi...... it destroys audi

you would rather have an Audi A8 instead of a Lexus LS430? that's juss dumb! I think Lexus is tough competition for bmw and mercedes

It only reminds me about american sceptical look on Ingloshtadt cars ;) .

Then I'd like to know - have you driven any A8? I think the materials and quality in Audis are far better than any not-german car!

Example - Lexus GS 400 has 300 hp and A8 with Quattro and tiptronic also has 300, but S8 has 360 hp. OK, S8 is more expensive. And I have a spanish auto magazine where I see that Lexus has only 284 hp but ok I think its not true. (those are euro-specs, I hate that americans always has less hp etc ;) )

And BMW is not a competitor it just slams Lexus down :hehe:

the quality of lexus cars is 100 times better than Audi...... I'd consider M-B, Jaguar, BMW and Lexus all in the same league while Audi and Acura are a little bit lower

our family doesn't own any Lexus cars but I like them, I've driven my neighbours brand new Lexus SC430 and that is one sweet ride..... I like it way better than our Mercedes SL500

May I suggest you two continue to slug it out in here? Enginering: Greman vs. Japanese (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=1486).

I'd also suggest using logic and reason to support your statements.

you're right, oh wise silver S2000

You're so lucky Gang$tarr, we just mostly tlak about these cars but, you get to drive them around. As for that thing with Audi, I think Audi's "S" cars are worthy competition of any Lexus and I like the old LS400 better than the new LS430. There's just something about that car I like.

thanks :)
i'm not even 17 yet and i've driven almost all my neighbours cars, and some of their cars are up in the $100,000 range, heheh
I drove a Mercedes CL600 last week, now that! that's a fuckin ride!

yah, so what, the can all be faster, but from what I hear, not more reliable, once again, japanese prevail. If they put a Manaul transmission into their gs430, boy would those big 3, sure be pulling their exhaust out of their ass. :smoka:

I drove a S2000, Lamborghini Diablo VT 6.0 12Liter, costed like 300,000. But i still like the comfort of my maxima =P

the best i have driven are a Ferrari 360 Modena and Bentley Arnage

the Ferrari was just a test drive with my dad, he let me drive it :D

you have a 2000 328 Ci? why didnt you get the 330 and are they any good? all the ones i raced were kind of slow, but those were like 325

you're not even 17 driven a 2000 BMW 328. must be a hard working kid. can't hate on ya. do what cha do brah.

Originally posted by Mrcoilover
you're not even 17 driven a 2000 BMW 328. must be a hard working kid. can't hate on ya. do what cha do brah.

my dad bought it for me (for the 16th birthday)

Nick: I didn't get the 330 cause i didn't buy the car, my dad bought it and the 330 wasn't out yet, when he bought it i think the 328 was the highest 3-series model.
the 328ci is almost as fast as the 330... like 6.9s 0-60 i think
What kind of car do you have?

Maxima, but now I drive an Rx300

oh so you raced them with your maxima? are there any mods on it? stick or auto?

Yeah Beatyon, it is still "beated" by the big 3, to bad its better

Originally posted by JBL85
Yeah Beatyon, it is still "beated" by the big 3, to bad its better :confused:

yeah i don't know what the hell he's talkin bout :D :D

i think he's tryin to say that the 3-series is better than a GS... which i totally disagree. A GS is obviously way better than any 3 (that's why it costs so much more) and it's meant to compete with the BM 5-series

Jay, I wrote the wrong name, his name was like eatyon or something whack, and I was just making fun of his grammar. =)

The GS is pretty...:silly2: The front is so nice and classy, much better than those bug-eyed Mercedes. It's perfect.

WITHOUT A DOUBT MY GS COULD WHIP MOST OF THE BIG3 IN BOTH LOOKS AND POWER!!NOT TRING TO BRAG JUST SEE THE FACTS!!!BUT HEY WHAT WOULD LIFE BE IF THERE IS NO COMPETION?

PEACE
GS4LIFE
P.S.:flipa: THE TALIBAN AND THIER ASSHOLE CUZINS THAT LIVE HERE!

I think that the Lexus GS models are the best on the market and for the price, style, performance and eye catching ability they are outstanding. Check out my web page to see for yourself, it's the imperial jade mica GS 300 pictured there.:smoka:
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/lat3jam4/

Originally posted by GS4LIFE
WITHOUT A DOUBT MY GS COULD WHIP MOST OF THE BIG3 IN BOTH LOOKS AND POWER!!NOT TRING TO BRAG JUST SEE THE FACTS!!!BUT HEY WHAT WOULD LIFE BE IF THERE IS NO COMPETION?

PEACE
GS4LIFE
P.S.:flipa: THE TALIBAN AND THIER ASSHOLE CUZINS THAT LIVE HERE!

LExus is awesome, but go fuck your self for the comment about the taliban....cuz its those living over there and not here so dont say dumb shit.....im gonna get kicked off the form for that comment, but what you said is pushing it

Originally posted by JBL85


LExus is awesome, but go fuck your self for the comment about the taliban....cuz its those living over there and not here so dont say dumb shit.....im gonna get kicked off the form for that comment, but what you said is pushing it If you want to talk about what the Taliban is or isn't, do it here (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/f980/). Either one of you.

thanx jay for not kicking my ass....but that stuff pisses me off

http://www.streetsourcemag.com/ViewOwnerProfile.asp?Profileid=6898

Todd has the turbos, just waiting on booth time at Alamo Autosport for the install.

Should be nice, I've only seen motor rebuilds and NOS kits on these cars, no one going to the extreme.

Todd is trying to finish in time of SEMA this year.

Hopefully this is on the list of one of those cars "done right"
If so, then we do have others.....

Gravity Permits

beat in what way?

Lexus is #1 on dealership service and satisfaction, and #1 on least problems per 100 vehicles (j.d. power quality list), it blows even the 2nd place manufacturer away, i forgot what it was. (those are facts)

Take the volkswagen engineered audi out the list of high end luxery cars, give the BMW five good years to break down or start costing you thousands in repairs and you are left with lexus amd mercedes. Lexus isn't the best but its far from the worst. I can tell you haven't drove all of them and don't relly know what you are talking about. so get your info correct first.

Does anyone know if the newer avalons share the same chassi as the GS300s

The BIG 3 are recognized as
Benz
BMW
Lexus

Those are top tier luxury cars with the others battling in the 2nd tier. Read any magazine. Lexus is also the best-selling luxury brand and credited for totally turning the luxury mrket around.

The 2nd GS was designed in-house, the 1st gen was by the Italians.

Originally posted by 1SICKLEX


The 2nd GS was designed in-house, the 1st gen was by the Italians.

How noticable is the difference between the 1st and the 2nd gen? It's quite slight.

Originally posted by igor@af


How noticable is the difference between the 1st and the 2nd gen? It's quite slight.

I think the difference is a lot between the 97 and below compared to the 98 and above. Two totally different looking cars.

Originally posted by 1SICKLEX
The BIG 3 are recognized as
Benz
BMW
Lexus

Those are top tier luxury cars with the others battling in the 2nd tier. Read any magazine. Lexus is also the best-selling luxury brand and credited for totally turning the luxury mrket around.

The 2nd GS was designed in-house, the 1st gen was by the Italians.

Top-selling....in America. There's an entire world out there where Lexus isn't in the top three. You forgot Audi, Cadillac, Lincoln, Volvo...all in the top tier with the other brands you mentioned. Actually, on a global scale, Audi and Volvo outsell Lexus.

Originally posted by Hudson


Top-selling....in America. There's an entire world out there where Lexus isn't in the top three. You forgot Audi, Cadillac, Lincoln, Volvo...all in the top tier with the other brands you mentioned. Actually, on a global scale, Audi and Volvo outsell Lexus.

Cadilac and Lincoln are shit made cars, volvo is made good but ugly....only cars of those I respect is an Audi

you gotta respect whetever has the best resale value?