rev up your engines, today by popular
demand I'm gonna talk about three luxury cars that you should buy used, and yeah normally
I talk about five vehicles but hey I could only think of
three good luxury ones to buy, because most luxury cars hey as they get old
they have problems and their very expensive to maintain now true luxury cars if they
follow their actual name they're expensive to buy cuz they're luxury cars,
so if you can get a good used one you can save a ton of money, for example my
wife's lexus ES 300 it was thirty two thousand dollars when brand-new, but
Scotty's cheap and smart I only paid $3,000 for it when it was used, yeah it
was twelve years old but it only had sixty thousand miles on it, and with that
low mileage and the many years I've owned it, the only things I put on are brake
pads and changed the engine oil filter and the air filter a few times, but
there's many used luxury cars out there that if you would have bought you would
have paid three four times that in three or four years just repairing the
stupid thing now the first used luxury sedan that I
suggest buying is the 2016 Acura, either the RLX or the TLX they're both
excellent vehicles, not as usual I'm never a fan of all wheel drive vehicles,
they add complexity in the acura line the ones that have the all-wheel drive
automatic transmissions have had histories of problems with those
transmissions when they're hooked up to an all-wheel drive system, so I say stick
to the two-wheel drive systems myself let's take the RLX, it's a true luxury
car it's got 310 horsepower a really smooth ride, responsive steering and
comfortable seating for five, it gets about average fuel economy but it's a
luxury sedan you don't buy a luxury sedan for fantastic gas mileage, that's just
not part of the package in any real luxury sedan, and of course if you're into
technology for a luxury car it's got all the things you, want a navigation
system moonroof, push-button start, all kinds of
electronic controls you can mess around with to your heart's content, and being a
Honda product come on now acuras are just fancy Honda's, its reliable so you get a
lot of fancy stuff on it but it tends to work for a long time before it breaks
down if it ever does break down, now years ago Cadillacs are seen as a big
luxury sedan in the fifties and sixties my grandfather's a mechanic then and he
loved them, but the modern Cadillacs to compare them to the Acura, Hey
the electronics on those things are breaking down all the time, I've seen the
dash modules go out on them, they're nowhere near as reliable as these Acuras
are, yeah the Cadillac is a lot cheaper to buy use than the Acura but there's a
lot of reasons for that, because the cadillac is made a lot cheaper and there's
a lot more problems, say you can't find an RLX but you can find a 2016 or so TLX
those a good cars too, they're not quite as luxurious, they got a little bit
less horsepower but their still excellent luxury vehicles, the regular
model has 280 horsepower and if you got a sport-tuned s model it's got
305 horsepower that's a lot of horsepower, and the TLs they're
reliable vehicles, the only recall ever seen in those things is that Takata
airbag recall that all these people that use millions of them Takata airbags
those are recalled, hey you get that done it doesn't cost you anything they gotta
replace it for free anyway, now my next used car that you might want to buy as a
luxury sedan might surprise people, I'm talking about the 2003 to 2011 Lincoln
Town Car, now people might poopoo this but for an old man car hey it's comfy
and they're relatively reliable vehicles those Ford v8 engines you change
the oil and don't overheat them they can run forever, and for a vehicle of that
size they get decent gas mileage just like the Acura Hey but on a highway they
get decent gas mileage, and a lot of people poopoo them because they say, oh
they have a soft suspension, well it's an old man car a lot of the old men want
soft suspensions, you know you can ride around
those things on the highway all day long you're not gonna
get a worn out, on a highway I've seen customers get 24 miles a gallon in
those things so you know they're not that bad for driving around cross
country, the lincoln town cars have one big advantage they made a bunch of them and
you can often get them relatively cheap, you're never gonna find a relatively
cheap Acura you're always going to pay pretty top dollar for that unless it's
really old or has 250,000 miles on it, but there's tons of these town cars
around and you can usually get a pretty good deal if you look around, now as I
said in previous videos, you can use Mercedes real cheap too but those things
they will bankrupt you even if you don't drive that many miles, where the Town Car
no they're not that bad to fix they're just Fords, and of course there's a lot
of guys around and know how to fix them, the repairs on those are generally much
cheaper than imported luxury cars, and really the main thing in spending money
on a luxury car is the engine and the transmission, and the Lincoln Town Cars
have an excellent reliability rating for the engines and the transmissions the
major parts, now the third luxury sedan that I advise people to buy is the Lexus
ES or GS which might surprise some people because I'm not a fan of their v8
engines, they're extremely complex hard to fix and they do have a tendency to
break down as they get really high mileage with the v8 engines,
and guess what even today all the Lexus luxury sedans
they're still made in Japan they're not making them any place else, so you're
getting true Japanese quality, your not getting something like a Mercedes Benz but
you know it's made somewhere else not Germany and not made by Germans, you're
getting the real thing with a Lexus, now the v6 engines and these Lexus's
they Run For Ever, I've had customers be
driving them with 500,000 miles, original engine original tranny, and you get in
them and they still run like a dream, they have a combination of really good
handling and a really nice ride, I mean a lot of people say, oh well some of these
cars they handle a lot better than other ones, yeah
but when you compare how they handle and how they ride, you're not gonna find a
better comparison for something that's in that price range, some of them now do
have a v8 engine in them, but like I say I am
NOT a fan of the v8 if you want power go ahead it's still you know really well
built vehicle, but as they age the v8 are probably five times more expensive to
repair than the six cylinder Lexuses are, so if you're gonna buy used one my
advice go six-cylinder, because yes I had customers that didn't listen to me and
said, oh I like the body style of the v8 better and bought them, ha it bit
them in the rear end later on when they found out, oh they had to replace
two catalytic converters all three of them and that was gonna cost them three
grand, and then when the starter went out you had to pull the intake manifold off
the v8 engine to change the starter, stick to the sixes they got plenty enough
power to get you around, they ride like a dream and they get
quite a bit better gas mileage than the eights do, I mean the best gas mileage
I've ever got is like 25-26 miles a gallon going 65 miles on a highway
these Lexus are luxurious inside, and yes they do hold up over time, look at
the inside of my wife's car, this car is a 17 year old car now, look at the wood
still shining, the leather seats are immaculate, now I do have aftermarket
mats I have to say I like them better, but there's tons of room front and back
yeah and it even has air conditioning and heating vents going into the backseat
it's a true luxury car, the Lexus ES sedan has been their biggest seller, now
this is an old 2002 ES 300, the ES 350 the newer version, hey at last just as
well very luxurious car, of course it is a lot more electronic stuff than the old
one had in it, but that's a great used luxury car to buy, so now you know if
you're going to a luxury sedan, there's three choices
three relatively different choices, but three good choices that you can buy used
and still drive for quite some time before they start having serious
problems, like most other luxury cars will, so if you never want to miss
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