200-Series to 300-Series Pros and Cons (2 Viewers)

[eNx]

Too keep things light, I triple locked my car going over a speed bump at wholefoods and no one notice that my fat Rav4 can do that.

Now, back to the real discussion....

 

[Docyota]

"If you have 600 "and then modify it" money, you have 700h OT money."

This. And this is why I flip-flopped and decided NOT to spend $10k on tires and a lift and another $5k more on lockers front and rear on my '22 LX600. It's just too sweet to get all that from Lexus as a stock vehicle in the 700h OT.

(Plus all the luxuries: heated and cooled first and second row seats, massaging front seats, power third row, AHC, hybrid power plus increased efficiency, and a stock 33in tire in the spare position).

 

[Joe T]

Too keep things light, I triple locked my car going over a speed bump at wholefoods and no one notice that my fat Rav4 can do that.

Now, back to the real discussion....

I have noticed this new Rav4 has a higher RTI score than the out going Highlander.

I was a little scared and hesitant for a few minutes, but I hopped a curb the other day.

 

[MRego]

Hey, I am glad I am not the one confusing it with a RAV4 anymore...

 

[TexasHusker]

This is all so funny. I'm a 20 year Land Cruiser/LX owner of one kind or another. When it's time to drive to Colorado to my fly fishing haunts and take on the bush, I stop by Enterprise Car Rental, grab a Camry, and rawhide that thing for three days. Thing takes 4 hours of washboard road like a champ!

Rear seat pops down, so I never even have to take apart my 8'6 rod, and I get 30 MPG until I reach the trails. Two tanks of gas, $150 to rawhide someone else's car, nothing but net.

 

[stiffarm]

"If you have 600 "and then modify it" money, you have 700h OT money."

This. And this is why I flip-flopped and decided NOT to spend $10k on tires and a lift and another $5k more on lockers front and rear on my '22 LX600. It's just too sweet to get all that from Lexus as a stock vehicle in the 700h OT.

(Plus all the luxuries: heated and cooled first and second row seats, massaging front seats, power third row, AHC, hybrid power plus increased efficiency, and a stock 33in tire in the spare position).

The 700 is the bomb. So very glad I traded my 68k 2021 LC. A constellation of difference and hugely better tech and ride. Not looking back.

 

[Joe T]

This is all so funny. I'm a 20 year Land Cruiser/LX owner of one kind or another. When it's time to drive to Colorado to my fly fishing haunts and take on the bush, I stop by Enterprise Car Rental, grab a Camry, and rawhide that thing for three days. Thing takes 4 hours of washboard road like a champ!

Rear seat pops down, so I never even have to take apart my 8'6 rod, and I get 30 MPG until I reach the trails. Two tanks of gas, $150 to rawhide someone else's car, nothing but net.

I sometimes laugh at the off roading stuff like literally other people in the world taking Camry’s off road every day. I have seen them pull whole trailers of hay with them through fields.

A couple years ago I bought a 97 WS6 Formula (think mullet). They spray painted flames on the front. Kid was like “this is supposedly a rare car”. I am thinking yeah less than 250 made.

Anyway his buddy pulled up in a newer muddy Camry and was asking if I would go help pull out a truck that was stuck way back in the woods. I was in my f250 w/trailer and they determined my truck was too nice to go back in there. They were definitely back in there with the Camry though, it was their little shuttle bus. Most impressive thing I saw that day outside of the WS6 Formula (black, cloth, 6speed, no t-tops, base wheels ).

This all happened at a gas station in front of a trailer park. Some of the best things can happen in these parking lots.