GTP Cool Wall: Lexus LS400

Snore. Its a comfy solid car but very very boring, unless your into VIP style.

Ah, the '90s. This is just another one of those boring cars for me, however the 4.0L V8 puts it at a solid cool especially since it probably wouldn't take much to perk it up and seriously show off at the strip. Otherwise meh.

It just looks like some car. Meh.

If this was the early 90s this car would be Sub-Zero but here in 2013, it's Seriously Uncool, as these days it's pretty much treated as a plush Toyota Avalon.

Its cool for me Its Toyota at it best in reliablity and Comfort and i like the looks of it

I'd say it's cool. It's subtle and a great bargain these days. Buy a cheap one now and people who don't know cars might find think it's worth a lot, of which it was worth quite a bit. Would have bought one as a daily myself...

Uncool. Overwhelmingly bland, plus it's pretty ugly in my opinion.

Not a car that really sets your heart on fire, but I still like the LS400 quite a bit. The early ones were a bit cosmetically challenged; the '94-'97 models were my favorite. But still, it's comfortable, quiet, is rear wheel drive, has a V8 and will probably outlive your children so long as it doesn't fall into the hands of an up and coming gangsta. I'd say this is a cool car for the impact it made to its market, its success, and its engineering feats.

Uncool. Boring, comfortable, dull to drive, quiet and boring. There's just nothing exciting about it.

Snoozermobile.

Seriously uncool.

It moves people comfortably, not emotions. I give it a Meh based on the grounds I don't have a feeling one way or another.

Big & comfy, but seriously boring.

Uncool

So uncool that it goes past seriously uncool and comes back round to sub-zero again.

A luxury branded Toyota, how cool is that ? It's not !

SERIOUSLY UNCOOL

And hah, hah...they still run despite myriad tech-too-good-to-be-true options that try to stop it. They either run perfectly, or have scads of issues at this age, and can be terrific money pits. Like it or not, they put Mercedes-Benz and BMW and Cadillac on serious notice, whereby they couldn't use the same design for ten years anymore. There was seven years of development on the Celsior/LS/F1 (Flagship 1) project, including a moment whereby engineers even wore fake nails to test out interior switches and controls...most everything still operates with the same fluidity as when new. UZ engine has life expectancy of thirty service advisors.

Still, rather boring to drive; any car that size feels tedious to me. Probably great for long highway stretches and being stuck in traffic, a rare moment when isolating qualities are wonderful. Probably a secondary-echelon historic car, but the knock-on effect is that Lexus stopped innovating in such huge strides for many years, and their clientele's buying average age rose for the next decade.

Meh...although if you want a biased answer, darn if they didn't make me boatloads of money.

Famine

The UK's most famous Lexus LS400 driver is this man.

So if you're after the bumbling octagenarian paedophile look, cool it right up. Otherwise it's as cool as kicking kittens to death.

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What happened to you? Worst argument ever.

Meh.

Don't like the look of cars from the Late 80s-Early 90s, Uncool

It's a spongecake with no flavour. Uncool.

Famine

There's a bigger backstory to this...

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I figure if we had to judge the cool of cars by matching them up to their worst owners, we'd never be able to rate anything. Mercedes-Benz has had their share of despotic rulers that were also great customers, but that's also an unfair argument. (I had to make some example.) Now if Lexus advertised that their car was impervious to crimes against children:

it's so quiet, cops won't hear the muffled screams inside
innocuous looks deflect your troubled past
the relentless pursuit of other troublemakers
(because you've got a Lexus, not some clapped-out white commercial van)

Then holy crap...we've got a problem.

Famine

Soundproofed boot, eh?

No, it was simply that he was kind of an icon of tat and the XF10 kinda met his tat head on (along with many other tatmeisters that characterised the car). It's just that whereas before it was associated with tat, now it's forever more associated with a meganonce.

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It doesn't mean anything if you're American and have no idea what any of these names mean, or what a tat or a meganonce is.

V8 sedan that isn't a Town Car. Subzero.

I give this a cool, but because I oddly like how vulgar it is. It seemed a pretty brash foray (or it was at least an earlyish Lexus model?) for Toyota. I think in the future folks might look on it more kindly, a little like some of those old boxy Japanese cars often used as state limos etc. in the late 70s and early 80s.

Oh and extra obnoxious props for the ones with gold bits, not sure if that was a factory option but a few seem to have gold badges etc.

Though, as far as I understand, they are bullet-proof in reliability, these have gotten to the point where all the ones you see are beaten, run down examples. It also conjures up the image of people who want a nice car but can't really afford one.

If this was the second gen LS, it would be a cool, if not sub-zero. This unfortunately, is kind of uncool.