ES300

I'm looking at getting one of these boys soon. Is it just a cushier Camry, as I've been lead to believe, or is there anything else that I should be concerned with? I'm in college so I just need a reliable, kind of powerful comfy cruiser.

Thoughts?

I would prefer to say go LS400 because it's objectively better but I know premium gas is like a dollar more expensive in some states.

>that guy who thinks es300 and ls400 share a market

what's wrong with your current car?

Yes it's a cushier camry, nothing wrong with that though, camry's were pretty reliable. these also seem to be the least molested lexus sedans in that era. stance fags seem to prefer GS and LS.

Nothing except it gets 15mpg and I'm tired of repairing things on it.
That's been a relief although I do likr the LS a lot. Stancetrash should stick to the IS and the ES. Leave comfycruisers alone.

What car and mileage? What have you fixed?

All ES's prior to current gen were based on Camry, now Avalon platform.
The V6 is great, I had a 2007 ES350 and it does 0-60 in like 5.6s according to the automotive magazines.
Super reliable comfy numb floaty feeling car, similar to LS in that regard.

When you're talking OLD OLD cars, ES and LS might as well share a market because the price diff b/w a 2007 ES and LS is like $3k, and they both offer reliable unassuming comfortable transport.

Considering replacing my totaled ES350 with a LS.

Basically no cars exist to me anymore except Lexus, I don't know how anybody puts up with their shit being broken all the time.

I Had an Lexus ES300 2001 Platinum edition for 9 years until one winter someone smashed right into it while it was in a mall parking lot. In my experience it was a great car with no major failures, but I had to keep replacing the O2 sensors on the car frequently. Also I've heard people having acceleration problems where the car would accelerate on its own. All in all my experience with my ES300 was great. But depending where you live it might be hard to find one that still has the leather intact.

I just recently bought a higher mile (203k) but well looked after '96 ES300 for $1600. Been very impressed with it so far as far as how well much of the original components hold up. 206k now, just did t-belt/wp, brakes, and rear swaybar bushings and a few other odds and ends Put on some fatter snow tires on Camry steelies as well. I was lucky in that the PO who owned my car for the last 18 years and 175k miles took care of it (changed oil, did repairs when necessary). The suspension on mine aside from those rear sway bushings is all original and still tight with no slop in the balljoints, any of the control arms, tie rod ends, etc. The car still rides well, the rear springs have a bit of sag and the rear struts are starting to make just a bit of noise, but that is nit-picking.

It is head and shoulders above the 2000 Maxima I had before it, which was starting to rot something fierce and at 142k needed a full suspension refresh (rode and handled like crap).