The important thing I did to my 200 this week is decide to keep it. I admit I was attracted to the bright shiny new GX550 and Land Cruiser for sure, but it’s clear for my use case the 200 is simply stellar. It happily tows any of my 4 trailers and gets my family reliably and comfortably to/from our cabin through miles of a dune sand road along the Lake Superior shore. For local use I have an EV, so the 200 is not my daily driver. Even the timing was right for a change. Since the 8 year extended warranty on my LC is up in December, I looked especially carefully at specs, test drives, reviews, first owner impressions, and trims/prices for the GX and new LC. I also looked at a GX550 Overtrail+ in person at the local Lexus dealer. Both have positives and negatives for my use case, but for each of them the positives don’t offer compelling reasons to trade. So, I’ll continue for the foreseeable future with my venerable older (just like me) 200 and go give it another coat of wax. That Brandywine Mica cleans up really nice and still looks bright shiny new too.
