GTP Cool Wall: 2001-2005 Lexus SC430

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2001-2005 Lexus SC430

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I don't think anyone can really step out of one of this and be seen as cool, just based on how ugly the car is, and the retirement cruiser image.

Seriously uncool.
 
I'd rather be seen stepping out of a candy pink Nissan micra cc than this. Seriously uncool.
 
If I remember right, one of the reasons people usually list cars as uncool is because sports figures buy them. Well, several footballers (NFL for us yanks) bought these & a Cowboys player still has his to this day. So, uncool.
 
The only two things I know about this car is the it was the last production car with a cassette player standard and Tyra Banks drives one, neither of those things strike me as cool.
 
I've never voted seriously uncool since I've been around these threads. And I lost my seriously uncool virginity for a very good reason. There's never been a car so suited to this spot like this one.

It's ugly as hell, it has a cassete player, it is driven by spoiled brats and I could kept going...
 
Seriously Uncool. Hideously ugly despite of being blander than Camry, overweight, underpowered and automatic only. These have a special place in automotive hell.
 
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Even in the context of 2001-2009, I still cannot fathom why this car would've had one. Everyone by then was buying CDs.
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True, but nostalgia.

And pointless feature that's out of date, so it's kind of funny in a sense.
 
Azure Flare
Even in the context of 2001-2009, I still cannot fathom why this car would've had one. Everyone by then was buying CDs.
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Well, given the tendency for retirees to buy these things, I could imagine the CD player was just a bit too complex for them. Plus, what they gonna do with all those mixtapes then? :p

Meanwhile, the '92 SVX my father owned had a CD player :lol:
 
If I ever get my hands on one of these, I'm changing the factory rims... :yuck:

Except for that tiny detail, it's a solid Cool 👍
 
I'm surprised at how many people think this car is "ugly", I don't see that at all. The styling is quite bold for sure and I wonder if that would be seen as a good thing if the car had more going for it otherwise. People seem to perhaps get a little insecure sometimes if something that looks a bit different comes along. "How dare they style it like that? What were they thinking?" etc.
 
I'm sure it has nothing to do with being the followup to one of the most attractive cars Toyota ever built; or that its two principle competitors managed to slot into the same market without sharing the proportions of a Camry.
 
This is bold:

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More conservative flank lines, but a genre-busting rear end (the Bangle-butt), and a truly bizarre front end.

This is not:

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It's not the fact that it was different... Heck, the Nissan/Infiniti Skyline that came out at the same time had a similar light/grille arrangement, though it had slightly neater proportions and a better glass/body ratio...

No, it's just that it's not an exceptional design. It's clean, with detailed line-work and flowing contours, but it just doesn't inspire passion.

 

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