I drive a '16 200 series and other 200 owners in my upscale neighborhood don't usually wave back

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RustySeattleCruiser

RustySeattleCruiser

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Of all the LC's I've owned (62, 62 again, 100, 200, then my current 200), the 200 gets the least amount of wave-backs 😥. When I drop-off or pick-up the kiddos, I see at least 2-3 200 series every morning AND driving around town I usually see another 3-4 on the road. The worst part is the lack of wave-backs, then the blank stare from the other driver(s). If you see an Onxy blue 200 waving at you, give a wave back or maybe just nod ;)

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RustySeattleCruiser said:
Of all the LC's I've owned (62, 62 again, 100, 200, then my current 200), the 200 gets the least amount of wave-backs 😥. When I drop-off or pick-up the kiddos, I see at least 2-3 200 series every morning AND driving around town I usually see another 3-4 on the road. The worst part is the lack of wave-backs, then the blank stare from the other driver(s). If you see an Onxy blue 200 waving at you, give a wave back or maybe just nod ;)

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Well if you want another perspective...
There's a 200 series in our neighborhood in Blizzard Pearl (same as ours) driven by a really attractive lady. I've seen her a couple of times and we've both waved. Then it happened when my wife was with me. We waved enthusiastically. I tooted the horn and I got from my wife the "Who was that" look. Haven't seen her* recently.

DON'T BE LIKE ME.

*the lady in the other LC.
 
In the normal people world, the 200-series is just another car/appliance. There's 4 in my community. No one's waving.
 
I like to see if the 200 series drivers will wave at me when I drive other series Land Cruisers, separates the contenders from the pretenders, plus this isn’t a JEEP Thing!

Seriously though, I don’t think they realize the uniqueness of LC’s, but in parking lots etc. I have had several People ask me if I like my 200 and they almost always respond “it is the first vehicle I ever kept this long!“ They just don’t know why.
 
Gross generalization but I would argue this tends to be true - Wavers tend to be extroverts. I’d argue an extrovert is more likely to drive a Range Rover than a Land Cruiser. Introverts drive Land Cruisers.

Couple that with the Seattle Freeze and no one is waving.
 
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I wave at any Toyota/Lexus body on frame that has bigger than stock tires and I get a 25% success rate. The newer it is, the less likely I am to get a wave back. If they have stock tires, the wave is never returned.
 
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I've known about the waving thing for quite some time. But I vividly remember the first time I experienced it. I once dated a girl whose family was STINKING rich. She drove a Porsche 914 her dad bought her as a high school graduation gift. Anyway, one day we were out in her car and she starts waving and flashing the headlights at an oncoming car. So I ask what's that all about. Her reply was that Porsche drivers always wave to each other. I replied: oh yeah, right. Like I had a clue.:rolleyes:
 
Live in Round Rock, TX my neighbor hood had a guy with 100 series (he recently sold it it was mint). He waves all time and we even talk every so often. Their is one LX570 he also waves, the GX4560 waves and new 2023 Sequoia guy waves. So I would say it all about people you live around more than the vehicle.
 
I somewhat understood waving while I was riding motorcycles - it's a brotherhood of sorts with common risks, gripes, thrills - but absolutely never understood waving in a car. For most people a car is nothing more than an appliance, and has as much emotional attachment as a microwave.
 
I was in my 200 a month or so back sitting in it with the windows just a tad down….a man and wife walked by and I could hear them.
Him: “Those are $90,000 vehicles!”
Her: “Well, I don’t like them”
Him: “I do”

Then I passed a 100 series LX470 on the interstate the other day…guy in the passenger seat started pointing at my 200 and getting really excited.

Mine is a 2011….so not a $90k vehicle, but I started laughing.
 
@DallasTide took the words right out of my thumbs. If it’s modded at all, there’s a certain kinda somebody behind the wheel that is capable of seeing you, and I mean seeing the Toyota imprint on your soul. Not every stock LC driver isn’t capable, but I’d guess most are seeing other things.
 
200’s are about where 80’s were when I started almost 20 years ago. I had a modified 80 and very few others were modified back then, they were still soccer Mom and Yuppie rigs and none of them waved.

Fast forward ~20 years and now almost every 80 is modded and they all wave when I am driving my 80 and few of the 200’s wave!
 
Maybe they think you're driving a Highlander?

:doh::flush:
 
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I somewhat understood waving while I was riding motorcycles - it's a brotherhood of sorts with common risks, gripes, thrills - but absolutely never understood waving in a car. For most people a car is nothing more than an appliance, and has as much emotional attachment as a microwave.
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For most cars absolutely. But for enthusiast cars its safe to assume that the person driving it has the emotional attachment. When I had my M4 I got the thumbs up from other M cars all the time. The issue with the LC is that it's an enthusiast car for some and just a family hauler for others.
 
RustySeattleCruiser said:
Of all the LC's I've owned (62, 62 again, 100, 200, then my current 200), the 200 gets the least amount of wave-backs 😥.
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"What's wrong with that guy in the Sequoia? Does he think he knows me? Fiddlesticks! I'm going to be late to the Nordstrom sale. I hope they still have that Prada bag in taupe!" - the avg LX driver around here.
 
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