so toyotas have a really high reliability right? well, what about a lexus from the mid-90s? do all the little bells & whistles start to fail out? like around 100,000 miles?
I've heard of LS400's and GS400's having well over 250,000 miles without a single problem or failure of any sort. One of my Mom's clients had a GS400 with 290,000 miles (he drove like a maniac too) without any problems whatsoever. They're all very well built, but occasionally you'll run across one that is just ridiculously good. Unlike a lot of German cars (Audis especially) the climate control and such very rarely malfunction.
No, not at all this isn't even debatable, Lexus was, is, will be the most reliable cars on the road for some time. http://www.channel4.com/4car/news/news-story.jsp?news_id=10668
This is because of the image the BMW portrays, not that the Lexus doesn't portray a good image, it's just that people hold a certain view of the German luxury cars.