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Ladies and Gentlemen, what think you to this?
2005 LEXUS RX400-H Hybrid 4x4 3.3V6 SE Auto | eBay
It ticks an awful lot of boxes for me, not least the colour scheme (which was mainly why I bought the ML420, tbh); if it were an ML420 or ML500 I'd have it like a shot.
I definitely don't want a 2009-on version, primarily because of the bizarre front end styling (Transformers R Us meets Origami...), so a sensible-mileage earlier one like this it would have to be.
It's not much more than half the mileage of the ML, and likely to be very reliable long-term, while the ML may or may not be (and if it's not, anything major on the engine or gearbox will cost an armannaleg in labour costs to fix...). I could stop wondering/worrying about reliability, and what oil to use, and bloody DPFs, and sludged-up inlet tracts, and just drive the thing...
Any and all opinions are very welcome, especially from any forum members who have had one.
2005 LEXUS RX400-H Hybrid 4x4 3.3V6 SE Auto | eBay
It ticks an awful lot of boxes for me, not least the colour scheme (which was mainly why I bought the ML420, tbh); if it were an ML420 or ML500 I'd have it like a shot.
I definitely don't want a 2009-on version, primarily because of the bizarre front end styling (Transformers R Us meets Origami...), so a sensible-mileage earlier one like this it would have to be.
It's not much more than half the mileage of the ML, and likely to be very reliable long-term, while the ML may or may not be (and if it's not, anything major on the engine or gearbox will cost an armannaleg in labour costs to fix...). I could stop wondering/worrying about reliability, and what oil to use, and bloody DPFs, and sludged-up inlet tracts, and just drive the thing...
Any and all opinions are very welcome, especially from any forum members who have had one.
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