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I may lean towards the "Similar Vehicles" listed at the bottom of the page. The 2014 is only 2 years older, has just about the same miles but is about $8,500 cheaper!Hi Everyone! Very new here, but wanted to get some thoughts from the forum. My wife and I are looking to upgrade our family camping/adventure vehicle. I have been looking at Lexus gx 460 for awhile and this one popped up at a local dealership. Again, new to all of this, and was curious if this looks like a solid option/price. Also, anything that I should look for specifically when viewing the car. I will attach link below. Thank you for your input!
Depends what the under carriage looks like. If it were all banged up, probably not. If all the skids looks pretty clean with minor scrapes, I'd give it a thumbs-up!So I’d I were to sell my 460 would you recommend someone not buy it?
I was being a little facetious, however you are correct that I don’t go beyond dirt roads or flat-ish grass fields to get to a campsite. I do plan on replacing the factory skids with something thicker IF I keep the rig. I’m contemplating selling it this year or early next year.Depends what the under carriage looks like. If it were all banged up, probably not. If all the skids looks pretty clean with minor scrapes, I'd give it a thumbs-up!
It's just that many folks out there don't know what to look for.
They'll see this totally stacked (built up) off roader and think to themselves, " Wow! I could go anywhere with that!" without considering just how hard it's been wheeled.
Not a problem, if it has been wheeled hard, just that someone with experience and knows about these things would know better suited of what to look for (regarding damage) and not mind the mods and maybe even some minor dings.
So, the short answer to your question, is I probably would buy your rig. You've never posted any pictures of your rig scraping along boulders or trees, hung up on rocks or having to be winched out of 4 feet of water. All your adventures seem reasonable and I'd know what to look for when examining your rig!
Land Cruiser Prados that the GX is based on have been carrying this sort of gear or similar weight in equipment all over the world in places harsher than most of the US. I’m pretty confident in the ability of the GX to be able to adequately handle all this kit.
I think you missed my point. Just because it "can handle it" does not mean it was designed to. A lot of these overland vehicles go way beyond the parameters of what the engineers intended. I get there is a market for it. Not all of us buy into it.
Just to pipe in, aside from all that extra weight a Prado may be loaded down with, those Prado's do it all over the world with either a 4 banger diesel or 6 cylinder petrol.
New and used car market is broken. New car supply is broken because of chip shortages and other supply chain issues. Lack of new cars plus stuff like people moving away from cities drives up demand for used cars. Demand is highest for larger vehicles with AWD/4WD so they have the largest pricing bubble.
I get the reliability thing. What I don't understand is why anyone would purchase a used vehicle same model and options for more than new. And don't get too warm and fuzzy over a used Toyota. When purchasing used (even with a mechanics inspection) you are rolling the dice. The GX 460 is no different than any other used "reliable vehicle".
This is not true at all. Lexus dealers here in Southern CA almost always have a few new GX460's on the lot. ADM's at Lexus dealers are far and few between. As I stated in my last post the GX460 is not in high demand.
The broken market conditions apply across the board. A lot of the used prices are dealers shooting their shot (compare Carmax to a local dealer) but over here in the mid Atlantic new vehicles are still few and far between.
