2009 GS 450h v Honda Legend

[Legendliving]

An unusual nice little recent video posted by a car dealer local to me. Especially interesting for me as I drove a Honda Legend for 150,000 miles and was sad to see it go with 180,000 miles on the clock. Not sure I agree with everything but I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. He has also posted a standalone review of this particular GS.

[Malc]

John hi ..  I also have a 56 plate Honda Legend, a very fine car too BUT it really is NOT quite so happy a car to drive as my 95 plate Ls400 with, now, 236k miles of which I have done about 110k 

The Honda Legend is really the g/fs car and that's now covered 137k miles about ( we've had it 5 years or so )  .. as I say a very fine car but not quite so as my Ls400 to drive etc ...  maybe it's the lack of comparative power in the Legend that's the issue, not sure really, it just doesn't quite match up 

Malc

[The-Acre]

Excellent video. As he says, it's all down to personal preference. I've had a GS but not a Legend. From the video I prefer the look of the Honda interior but the Lexus exterior. I wonder if a non hybrid GS would have been more comparable.

[Legendliving]

Yes Phil, in the US it seems since 2006 the GS with the larger v6 has been the obvious direct comparison. Sold as an Acura RL in the States the Legend sold slightly better than here. The Legend was a rare thing in the UK and Europe with only 500 or so sold in the Uk, so I virtually never saw another,(a bit like driving a Mk4 facelift GS!) so when I came across any GS it seemed to be the only comparable car despite the Legend being front wheel drive biased 4 wheel drive. My driving is 90% motorway and so the Legend in 2007 with adaptive cruise and lane keep assist was both a novelty and made for relaxing long road trips. The Honda 3.5 vtec made a wonderful noise when opened up. But once the Legend was discontinued the GS was the only way for me to go once I’d scratched the itch of owning a V8 with an RCF for a couple of years. Just a shame no suitable GS450h was available at the time I needed to change, but now very content with the 300h. Actually the 0 -60 in the Legend was 7 and a bit seconds and from a number of YouTube videos the 300h apparently does it in 8.1 or 8.3 rather than the over 9 published by Lexus so not really that different. The interiors I would say are very comparable, both totally solid and mechanically engineered to a high standard.

This was my Legend.

[Malc]

21 hours ago, Legendliving said:

Actually the 0 -60 in the Legend was 7 and a bit seconds and from a number of YouTube videos the 300h apparently does it in 8.1 or 8.3 rather than the over 9 published by Lexus so not really that different.

and the Ls400, even still at 26 years young is 6.9 secs 

Malc