Hello, New Lexus Owner & New Member

[Ninety-Eight]

Just picked up my "new" Lexus yesterday. I am now driving a '99 LS400 in some crazy purple and lilac 2 tone (although in most of the photos I look when I got home it looks brown!)

I like big cars (you can sing that to the tune of "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mixalot if you like) and was all set to buy a Jaguar V8 4.0 S type until I thought I would go look at a local Lexus for sale "just to cross it off the list". Well, my misconceptions of the brand were shattered within about 0.4 seconds of seeing the car. The automatic trans hadn't even got into 3rd gear on my test drive and I knew I had to buy it.

I've owned/driven/borrowed/hired some nice cars and some big luxury monsters of course, but the LS400 seems a perfect "compromise" of size, power, agility and luxury. OK, not as "sporty" as the S Type or whatever, but its cut from a different cloth... a far more luxurious cloth...

Hopefully my photo link will work....

thats the beasty at home last night.

I'm looking forward to putting some more miles on it :D Just getting the hang of all the controls now...

[sparkystav]

Welcome mate,

the car looks great.

Stav

[Ninety-Eight]

Thanks. I like it. I still can't believe how much quality luxury motor you can buy for about the price of a 5 year old Focus LOL. I had enough change from £3K from buying that to fill the petrol tank and buy a nice lunch!

[Lexus2D]

[TommyH]

Nice motor mate, enjoy.

[Gord]

Welcome, nice car you have :D

[Ninety-Eight]

Thanks, I'm sure I will have plenty of questions. I am about to attempt to fit an FM modulator to the aerial lead into the audio system to run an iPod so I can see me getting in a mess there...

[treborlex]

Hello & Welcome to the loc.

[iceman67]

hi and welcome to the loc

nice looking ls400 matey

[passman53]

Welcome, car looks really good.

[aztecbandit1]

Hello and Welcome to the club matey, :D

Lovely looking LS that :)

[randyreindeer]

Nice car. Thought I was looking at mine when I looked at your pictures. Identical. The colour is like Marmite.

I hope you realise its just slightly upgraded with lowered springs and 17" alloys? Do a search for the DHP version.

Oh, welcome by the way.

[Ninety-Eight]

DHP? I never heard of that. I assumed all LS400 were the same. I learn something new every day.