2020 Lexus LS500h vs 1994 Lexus LS400...Battle Between Legends
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- Comparison review of the 2020 Lexus LS500h vs 1994 Lexus LS400. We see what 3 decades has done to the Lexus LS line up. The 2020 Lexus LS500h has been a highly anticipated review and there will be a dedicated in depth review coming up for the LS500h as well as a full feature tour of the 2020 Lexus LS500h. This will be a small glimpse while comparing to the Lexus LS400.
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Let me know your thoughts below on both of these cars and which you would choose. Many more videos to come on the LS500h so be sure to stay subscribed.
Do you think the 2020 LS500 will age as well as the 94 in 30+ years?
Ehh probably not it looks so of it's time and that's my problem with the LC500 as well. To be fair the 94 looks like a 90s car but it's clean and kind of timeless whereas the LS500 is not timeless. That's the one good thing the Porsche 911 has going for it because it's always an evolution not a revolution
I have an LS430 and to answer your question what luxury is:
To me: “not feeling tired after a tiring trip”.
In my LS noice cancellation, ride quality, interior quality and tech makes me not to get tired in long trips.
If your car is luxurious, you simply won’t get tired in it-that’s luxury summarised.
New LS is a little disappointing for me because for all its size outside it is not big on the Inside. Great review by the way.
Yea I noticed that I thought that was rather strange I guess it's because they went for a coupe like design. But leg room wasn't as much either kind of interesting but I did love the looks of it haha. Thank you again for stopping by and showing support my friend
It's just weird how the previous generation 460s had more space that's all usually space should go up not down especially when the cars get larger that's all most normal people of course don't have issues fitting
@Pika Pika yes roof line is def effecting things but I just love how this thing looks that I don't really care but again I'm a normal size person so I rather have the style
Yeah with the LS500 being bigger, how do they drop the ball on leg space? A Honda Accord has the same legroom.
@Pika Pika but that's the sad part tho. This car is longer than the previous LS but a smaller interior. That's unacceptable. The 7 series, A8 and S class have way more room. My LS430 UL almost has the same space. Lexus dropped the ball on that
Your the best with your Lexus cars reviews 👏🏾☝🏾
I appreciate that brother thanks again for watching!
Exhaust Sports Auto No problem bro
the 400 is all things considered the much more impressive vehicle, at the time it was a genuine leap ahead in terms of how meticulously and thoroughly it was engineered and executed, now there's no real reason besides price to get a 500 over like a new S class... the LS 600hl was really the last time the LS was on the same field as the competition
enjoyed your review, my 1999 LS is still my favorite car and that's even after also having the 2005 E55 for a few years... nothing else is just quite so nice to use, it's really the perfect balance of when a car stuck to doing it's best to just be a car without attempting to make any decisions for you, and the instantaneous and linear power delivery (and sound) of the V8 just can't be matched
if you're ever near the NY area i'd love for you to be able to review it, and the E55 for that matter lol
Sir, I appreciate your reviews, and unbiased and candid reviews. Always a pleasure, great way of articulating and delivering your content, with no B.S. and love the LS reviews, instant likes for these. 👍🏽 keep up the great work and much success.
Haha thank you so much my friend I'm truly humbled by that. I really appreciate you stopping by.
U always give the dope reviews brother, and this one was no different!! 👍💯
I really appreciate that haha thank you my friend
Excellent video!! Maybe do the first gen RX versus a new RX next
Haha thank you I did review the 2017 RX 350 if you are interested one of the newer videos I did
Would love to see first gen RX vs new RX as well
So the big comparison video launches on my Birthday! And mate that LS500h is beautiful, that interior though............stunning.
Wow Happy Birthday my friend that's insane lol I was thinking about releasing yesterday night but held out till this morning. Enjoy your special day!
@@MeynMotorGroup Thank You Buddy!
Great review!! Love the comparison video!! The color combo on both of those LS’s is gorgeous!!
Thank you so much Ryan, yea I agree I def like the color combinations the LS400s paint has held up flawlessly love it. Thanks again for stopping by.
Good comparison! It's pretty cool to see how it has changed over 30 years.
Thanks and yes that's what I mainly wanted to see it's a drastic change of course haha
I don't want to be that guy but the LS design is getting to much complicated. What was the LS400 LS430 and facelift LS 460 and freaking works of art
LS500 looks like it was originally designed for a videogame and had to switched to real life
Oh yea styling def fall under the "to each their own" category. Many dislike the new Lexus design I guess it was catered more towards weird yuppie millennials like me lol The 07-12 460 was kind of the last understated Lexus
@@MeynMotorGroup they need to follow Genesis they're kicking out of the park with the G90
The Older LS is a Million Mile Car all day long ! The New One , not a chance 👎
Mm idk, I wouldn't underestimate toyota quality and longevity, turbocharged or not
Thanks for the great review man
Just wanted to till you a thing.. at 10:35 you said there is no CD player but 11:35 the CD player is hidden in the trunk which takes around 6 CDs & lets you change among them
I appreciate how the lexus might look simple but cares about little details
Great job on covering both vehicles so well. I love your Lexus content and the passion you put into these videos, you also helped me learn more about the 2010 ES350 before I picked mine up. Regarding the LS400, I suspect that it needs new struts at the current mileage, which is probably why it rolled so much in the corners. I have a 98 ES300 that needed new struts at the same mileage and it completely transformed the body control.
Thank you so much my friend I'm humbled I could help. And def good to know glad new struts made a difference yea I really liked that older LS a lot. Thank you again for watching!
both are great! EXCELLENT REVIEW! !!!! nothing beats Toyota/Lexus
Great idea! I like both, and respect their differences and all. Both are great cars.
I def agree with that!
It’s a great motor in the original LS I love it
Very smooth for sure
The Japanese luxury cars of the 90s, were really destroying the American brands. The Lexus LS400, Infiniti Q45, Acura Legend, Infiniti J30, Lexus ES, Infiniti G20, all looked good!
Try and find a 98-00 LS400 to review :)
Haha perhaps but I think I'm done with these LS cars for now took me like 6 months to come across this 400 and the dealership had to purposely not list it or else someone would have bought it lol
I studied at The Art Center School and planned to be an automotive designer, so my comments aren't off the cuff opinions. The original Lexus was styled to have a quiet dignity, an understated purity of line in the manner of the famed Bauhaus, whose philosophy was Less Is More. Translated, that means form follows function. Toyota's target was the CEO or professional upper middle class management people who gravitated to BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Toyota spent over $1 billion on their Project F1, as it was called. Within 2 years of introduction to the US market, Lexus was No. One in the luxury sedan class. As the competition fought back, Lexus wanted to tap the younger performance market and the stylists were told to jazz it up. Unfortunately, the cookie cutter grille and swooping, pointy lines of front and rear made for an aggressive change of character and the entire feel of the Lexus was lost. Subsequent yearly variations only made any distinction Lexus had fade into obscurity. It's not easy to maintain a dominant character year after year, as Porsche, BMW and Benz have done, but if you can't make your product stand out from the rest without alienating your base customers, things could get out of hand. I'll keep my classic LS400. It suits my senior status and is a source of conversation, when I run across someone who knows the Lexus story. Whenever I take it in for routine maintenance, the younger mechanics ask if I want to sell it. It appears there is a certain cult of the elegant beater car lover afoot. "Less", as in money, is "More" for younger drivers of modest means and oldsters on a fixed income.
Too bad the V12 Toyota Century was never brought to the US. I bet it would be even nicer than the already awesome LS400😍
That’s the Yakuza car 🥶💰
ls400 had a spring type base like on a coach bus fyi lol. thats the bounce ur feeling. love it
Yea I love the seat lol very unique
When you said you were gonna review the LS500 I confused it with the LC500, a little disappointed but that's my fault, I hope you do review the LC500 eventually but any Lexus is a good car but the LC500 is just something different, and you're videos have always been good so far so I'm excited to see what's next
I really wanted to buy an LC500 but my gosh that thing is a mortgage payment for real lol. Going to have to hold off on that for a while but yes I definitely want to review one for sure! Thank you again for your support.
@@MeynMotorGroup Can't wait, you and Douge Demuro are some of the best car reviewers that review cars no one else reviews with such high quality, what kind of camera and microphone do you use? I'm trying to stsrt my own Yourube channel eventually but I want to get good resources for it
I'm humbled that you put me up there with Doug haha. I personally use a Sony A7III with a Saramonic wireless lav but like most others will say, use your phone and connect a Lav mic to it and get a tripod for your phone and you can probably even make better looking videos then me I have no idea how to use my Sony I'm still learning
@@MeynMotorGroup Thank you so much 😄, appreciate your advice and your willingness to help
Of course my friend let me know if you start that channel
Out of every Lexus LS generations what is your favorite one? And why and which do you think is the most reliable Lexus LS generation. And best looking?
I had a 1990 Lexus LS400 just like that one but with otiginal rims, and gray interior, 259k miles still floated away where I needed to go everywhere, sadly a lady in a nissan frontier totaled it, I got a 1991 Toyota Celsior with 65k miles now.
Great review. I disagree about what you stated about the LS 400 not being recognized as a status symbol by most people in current times. I believe they would be because of the Lexus badge on the LS 400 and it has aged well. Any German or british or domestic luxury car from that older era would be so lucky to look half as good in modern times...or wait, most of those German/british/domestic marques are in junkyards.
I hope people respect the LS 400 such a high quality piece of automotive engineering!
E39 5 series wipes the floor with this in terms of looks. LS isn't far behind though.
Thumbs up review. 👍
Thanks so much!
If you really like that solid feel it's time to review a 92-99 Mercedes s class (w140). Earlier cars were built better quality wise but are less reliable. The solidity easily beats these ls400s but so will the repair bills.
I did drive an old diesel Benz e class but not the S class older benzes are pretty solid I just find these Lexus cars to age better
I agree with exhaust, I dumped 5k since I bought my 91 from a dealership, and it was running perfect... But if I'm going to dump thousands into a car I'd do the first Lexus flagship ever over any Mercedes out there hands down!
How quiet is ls400 compared to the ls460?
Oh the newer LS cars are so much quieter lol
59 decibels at 70 mph made original LS world's quietest. I question if newer models are much quieter. Or more slippery at a CW of .29! Like a little Porsche 911.
@@roberte.andrews4621thought it was 64 d
Sorry not trying to hate or anything. Love your videos :) but just some info about the Cressida, That was made WAY before the LS400. In-fact if your car is a 1994 then the Cressida was no longer in production at this point. It ended in 1992 sadly. Good car also haha!
Celsior is what I was referring to just too many of these Toyota branded luxury cars that start with a C
6 disc cd changer in the trunk. Pick out your favorite 6 cause it’s kind of a pain to go back and change them out. Ha ha.
Correct lol a few cars did these even in the 2010s like Acura haha
Thanx bro 👍🏾
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I currently have a 1994 LS400 with 160,000 miles. Its my daily driver. I also own a 2006 LS430 with 87,000 miles. Almost time for the timing belt! Its a sweet drive. Its the blackcherry pearl color. I haven't seen another one like it. I am currently looking to buy a 2010 or 2011 LS460. Its just before they changed the body style. I haven't found one locally with the right color. I want a black interior and blue or red exterior. I am tired of the cashmere interior of my LS430. Once I find the LS460 I will sell my LS400, which I have had for 12 years. Except for a timing belt and a power steering pump, its been a vary reliable car. It will be hard to give it up but I must move on.
I want the LS500, but I will wait for a few years. It has some nice features but I can't see spending $100,000+ for a car
Nice those are some awesome Lexus cars you have there. Yea the unfortunate thing with buying used is all the parts that need to be changed eventually and they do cost a good amount too. I would recommend a warranty on the LS460s but you seem to have good experience with your other cars. I personally love the 430 smoothest engine i have experienced! Thanks again for stopping by my friend.
I am interested in your LS400 if you’ve decided to sell
Im not a big fan of the back end of the newer LS, if they could sort that out they could give the S Klasse a run for its money in the looks department, Mercedes has been making sleek model after model in the past 15 years.
Yea styling is heavily subjective
Review Lexus nx and lexus is turbo please
Def want to do the NX thanks John!
@@MeynMotorGroup and es350 2017.. like ur reviews
I did review a 2013 ES350 if you are interested it was one of the newer videos and I did do the 2017 RX 350 as well
@@MeynMotorGroup yeah I saw both already, I love Lexus. thinking on getting 2017 es350..
@@MeynMotorGroup be nice if u do more videos like the ones u have saying for example 50k miles later, 100k miles later.. on Lexus ..
The brakes on the ls400 are HUGE and will stop that boat really quick lol. Also, the new ones have a 4 speed and CVT? Not sure if I trust that..
Yea I agree those brakes are def nice on the 400 they do an excellent job
The new transmission specifically for the hybrid is a very strange one, I have no idea how reliable it is but it’s assumed to be pretty good. I prefer the normal ls 500 RWD since it is the classic luxury car style and has a 10 speed that seems to be pretty good. And it’s a decent bit quicker too
I'd rather take the previous generation LS 600 L with executive package or curent Kia K900/ Genesis G90 than this generation LS 500. Maybe the kiriko package would sway my opinion on the car.
P.S. Still holding out on buying a second car. I don't need a second car and am thinking I should dump the money into the stock market with the Coronavirus panic instead.
Dude same def capitalizing off that Corona for sure. Yea cars are cool but this is a nice opportunity and yea LS Is a nice car has some surprising compromises tho
لكزس ٤٠٠ وبس 🇯🇵
6:20 "at the end of the day, it's just a hoopty. Nobody's going to respect you for driving one except car people in the know who appreciates it"
I strongly disagree sir. Far from a hoopty. And still a highly respectable car.
I didn't mean that from a lexus fan boy perspective of course YOU don't think that. I mean the rest of the 7 billion people in this world that don't give a damn about Lexus or any car for that matter.
700 a month..... I can def work with that
No,,
94 Celica coming ....
The Ole LS 400 is a million mile car ! The new turbo No Freakin way!
That's true but would you keep a car that long
Exhaust Sports Auto I’m trying with my 2010 Avalon 😁👌
@@roadglide1142 oh nice how many miles do you have right now?
Exhaust Sports Auto I got only 54K I got a long way to go lol
@@roadglide1142 Oh wow that's not much for a 2010 car so you could lease a big baller LS500 if you wanted to lol #youonlyliveonce
go find an acura RL dude!
Still trying for that haha