[speaker001:] uh are you presently looking uh for a used used car
[speaker002:] well as a matter of fact I just bought one just just within the last three weeks
[speaker001:] just bought one so what'd you get
[speaker002:] I got a Lexus LS four hundred
[speaker001:] Lexus um
[speaker002:] which is made by Toyota
[speaker001:] okay Lexus is a Toyota sub brand
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] okay I was wondering where that came from because they're talking like it was an American built car
[speaker002:] it's kind of their right it it sounds like it but it really isn't it's uh marketed of course it its own dealerships
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] usually usually or somebody that's maybe got a Cadillac or Lincoln and Lexus dealership uh sometimes they do that but
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] it's uh a brand car but I've really liked it it it drives just wonderfully and there is it's so quiet you almost can't tell the engine is running
[speaker001:] that's their big selling point uh other than general luxury and and but the particular seems to be the uh the quiet ride it seems they it's
[speaker002:] it really is it's got pretty good acceleration too it's got a CD player in it so I can I can play those and
[speaker001:] yeah uh was that wasn't a standard feature was it
[speaker002:] hum-um
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] but there's not very many options on that car
[speaker001:] uh I get the impression
[speaker002:] there's only about five or six options everything else is standard uh some of the tracking control things and skidding control things for up north the CD and the premium sound system
[speaker001:] yeah you get the impression that's um-hum yeah skidding control you mean the antilock brake system
[speaker002:] yeah it's kind of a traction control I think they call it it's it's not just antilock brake I think that's already on most of them but there's a further traction control uh
[speaker001:] yeah oh this is a uh uh probably suspension tied into the brakes
[speaker002:] yeah and and also the suspension can be raised for driving like in the ice and snow it can raise the car's center up a little bit
[speaker001:] oh yeah
[speaker002:] for going under a lot of piled up stuff if you were up in Michigan or somewhere
[speaker001:] yeah uh shoot some of these muddy driveways use it around here
[speaker002:] Mississippi probably doesn't Mississippi probably doesn't have to worry too much about that
[speaker001:] no snow doesn't happen very often
[speaker002:] if it does people go what's this stuff
[speaker001:] yeah uh originally I'm from West Virginia we got a pretty fair amount of snow but uh I got down here in June of eighty four
[speaker002:] oh well you had some there yeah
[speaker001:] and the first winter down here was probably the worst winter they'd seen in twenty years and it was amazing how a few inches of snow would turn normally sane manly adult men into playful little children
[speaker002:] oh I know
[speaker001:] we had this group of uh surveyors come into uh a shop I was working in um four or five of them these big old flame worn suburbans and the snow all over the place they had just come in to get gas in their vehicles and get the oil checked but while they were there they set back drank about four or five cups of coffee apiece and made snowmen on the hoods of their vehicles threw snowballs all over the place
[speaker002:] oh no
[speaker001:] had themselves a ball for about an hour
[speaker002:] well the uh the Lexus uh really and the moon roof I think is also an option although most of them are ordered them with it but there really is only about a half a dozen uh things and
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] everything else is pretty standard I did not get the traction control which also when you take the control traction control and the and the suspension thing it also puts heaters in the front seats too
[speaker001:] oh so that's kind of
[speaker002:] you go out and get in that real cold car and you turn that on and it yeah and it kind of uh but that's only available if with the traction control and the other option and those two are sold together so you have to take a two thousand dollar option there to
[speaker001:] it's a package deal yeah ouch
[speaker002:] to uh do it so I I opted not for that but
[speaker001:] no it doesn't sound real necessary in Texas
[speaker002:] and uh the dealership I dealt with they order them all with the uh moon roof and uh you know nice floor mats and everything in there
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I worked for Lincoln
[speaker002:] so the only thing I had to decide on was whether I wanted a CD or not in the stereo system and that was pretty much it and they had like three or four basic packages that they
[speaker001:] yeah sounds like the Lincoln Mercury dealer I used to work for they didn't order anything but the extra luxury version of whatever they got little Mercury Tracer
[speaker002:] they offer yeah I've been over I've been
[speaker001:] imagine or not they make a they make a luxury Mercury Tracer
[speaker002:] yeah I've seen that in the dealership I was driving a Lincoln a Mark Seven for the last four years before I traded it for this and uh
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] I'm leasing the Lexus I usually lease them since I own a business I just run it through my business but
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] but it the Lincoln ride is certainly good too but the this Lexus is nothing like I have ever been in before it just
[speaker001:] like sitting in your living room
[speaker002:] yeah it really is and it's got a lumbar support in the seats adjustable uh power and just kind of brings that support up in the small
[speaker001:] adjustable yeah