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hello everyone and welcome back to Y2K
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my name is Blake and today we are going
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to talk about a 6500 M update on this uh
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2024 Lexus gx550 overt tril plus an
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incognito with the black
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roof um we're back in Florida we went to
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Montana and came back for those of you
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that didn't see that video um and we had
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zero issues so uh just a brief walk
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around of the are most of you have
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already seen these on YouTube A lot of
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people are reviewing
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them got the rock sliders which is nice
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I like that um the only kind of real
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issue we had was a cosmetic
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one and uh that was just this carpet
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kind of tearing from our luggage it's
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not the highest
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quality carpet
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so sorry so every body was calling me on
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my phone it's not the highest quality
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carpet and uh it tore so we're going to
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get a rubber mat back here from Lexus or
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weather attacker something like that um
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but other than that had great cargo
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space we folded some seats down we had
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three little corgis in here and
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everything went accordingly there is a
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little rattle back here
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somewhere um at lower speeds at lower
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RPMs and I'm kind of trying to track
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that down but I haven't been real
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successful
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yet that's the only main gripe I really
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have and it's not really a big
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one so
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uh let's jump in I'm going to point this
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down so you can see
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everything and we'll just kind of talk
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about uh the first 6,500 miles with this
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car a lot of uh dinging and donging
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still which is a 200 series uh owner
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that daily drives one this is my wife's
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car that's slightly
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annoying all
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right off we
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go had a nice little Park here
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actually near our home and uh it's a
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good place
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to go to what looks like a beach but
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actually it's on the bay but it's not
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near as
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crowded so yeah 6500 miles what do I
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have to report uh interior is holding up
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very well we put it through its Paces
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with the three dogs in the back seats uh
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for about 5,000 mil of traveling and
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then we also drove it more obviously
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we're in Montana for a little bit I was
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swapping back between this and our
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4Runner that we keep out there we drive
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once a year um so all the dogs can go to
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our place in Montana and other than that
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we usually fly but so we have the the
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4Runner TRD Pro out there
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2017 that we keep out there as our car
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to have uh because the turbo fees are
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quite astronomical these days inflation
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is a real
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thing as I've said
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before um so yeah it was a a nice
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trip and the uh I've kind of echoed this
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before but the thing I'm liking the most
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so
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far is the driver Assist Technology
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apparently
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this Toyota safety sense program that
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they call it I don't know if Lexus calls
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it something different but I'm going to
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call it Toyota cuz that's what it is
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nice day on The Sandbar always um anyway
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so the Toyota safety sense the
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driverless setup on this I'm going to go
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ahead and turn it on so just one button
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and now we are ready to go um that's the
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biggest feature I like on this car
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tech-wise
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um it's just such a nice it doesn't like
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really Chase or anything like that if a
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lane painted line kind of drops off
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which you'll see on this turn uh Lane
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right here it will kind of Chase that
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but it usually is pretty good about
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holding the lane um but you can actually
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just kind of we'll see what it does
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right here there's a little dotted line
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there so that's perfect we'll get it up
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to the speed limit um it's even got auto
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lane
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change so there it goes
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which I didn't realize till like on the
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way back
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home but uh it's a really good system
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it's I've heard it's better than uh I
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was watching a Doug deir video he said
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it was actually better than his Mercedes
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he just got that new Sequoia TRD Pro and
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he drives across the country a couple
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times a year uh like we do so um it was
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good to hear that he actually enjoyed it
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because I mean it really is a really
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nice system and uh that's the biggest
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thing I've enjoyed about this car other
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than um the normal things like the great
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powertrain um which honestly it has a
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lot of power compared to older Toyota
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products that were all naturally
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aspirated for the most part or a little
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bit hybrid with a naturally aspirated
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engine so
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um but yeah that's that's the the
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greatest thing is just the self-driving
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and makes everything easier on a road
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trip so this is our road trip car now
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I'm not going to be holding the steering
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wheel for 36 hours anymore and throw my
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back out and go to the caropractor while
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I get to Montana um other things to
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report I mean really not a lot the hood
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fluttering everyone complains about um
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it's doing it a little bit right now uh
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I I kind of noticed it at first but I
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really don't look anymore guys it
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doesn't really bother me um could they
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have done a better job I suppose but it
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it's really just not something I think
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about uh on my day-to-day uh task when
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I'm out driving this thing around or
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doing a road trip um so I kind of think
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that's overblown honestly you know if
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you really focus on little things like
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that I can see where it would be
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annoying um but really it's it's just
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not that bad so I would say it's time to
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kind of move on from that uh topic
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probably unless you're just super OCD
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and it just absolutely drives you
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crazy um gas mileage like I said before
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is like
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17.7 the engine's broken in now and I
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can tell that it's getting better MPG
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um and we did do the uh I went to do the
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5K service cuz it told me it was time uh
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on our way home in Dallas we went to
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Plano uh Lexus we stopped there
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overnight on our way back and I thought
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it was an oil change but it was a
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freaking tire rotation which was so
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stupid to go in just for a tire it's
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just a big waste of time they just
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waited come in there and buy something
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else um they did actually try to tell me
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that I could make money by trading it in
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because there's a big weit list of
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course I don't want to do that um but it
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made me think maybe I should do an
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episode where I like uh get this thing
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appraised by CarMax or carvana so maybe
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I'll do that I'm just kind of curious
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what they would give me for it um but
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they were they were eager to buy this
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back which made me feel uh somewhat like
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I made a good decision um financially
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cars are usually not great decisions
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unless they're like old classic cars
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like my Diablo but usually they're not
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so that was kind of cool um the 10K
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service is when they do the oil
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change and I just decided to go ahead
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and do both of them at the same time I
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don't like running 10,000 mil on a brand
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new engine um that just feels weird to
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me and we're going to keep this thing
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for a few years so I just want to make
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sure we do the best we can take care of
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it um sorry I just got like a little
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tickle on my throat um but anyways I
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mean that's that's pretty much it it did
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really
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well um we've enjoyed the 6,000 Mi of it
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uh without any issues I've got
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everything dialed in with all the driver
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alerts I turned all that crap off um the
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only time it bothers me really is the
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front cross traffic alert which is good
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but it's also just kind of annoying um
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especially when you're coming from you
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know older stuff that just kind of lets
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you drive the car and leaves you alone
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um but uh yeah I mean that's that's
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pretty much it's been Rock Solid
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minus the little rattle in the
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back and uh we had the first service and
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it's it's a happy car and uh I drive it
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like once or twice a week and my wife
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will take the lanr uh we like to drive
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them you know and compare them and see
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like you know do we still uh have the
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same thoughts about both cars it's it's
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nice to uh compare and contrast and see
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what we like better about one versus the
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other and I'll probably do a video on
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that comparing the 200 series to this
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250 Series in the next few days see that
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was the Laney assist kind of tried to
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Veer off but it doesn't do that a whole
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lot um but yeah it's been interesting
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the Land Cruiser is just a it's a tank
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man this this is not quite the tank-like
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feeling um but it has way better attack
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but we'll go into a little more depth
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talk about that later so anyways uh good
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car if you're out looking to buy one I
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would recommend it after my time with it
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uh we put enough miles on it I think to
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kind of say whether it's it's something
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we would keep or not and we're going to
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be keeping the
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gx550 um I can't think of anything else
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really right now that I would want over
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this we already have an older x 5 so I
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we don't want anything German uh right
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now in that regard and I've got an older
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M3 um those were our two daily drivers
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before uh we switched to Toyota stuff
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and I had some trucks before but um
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there's the new Defender I don't really
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want that cuz I don't want a
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depreciation Nightmare and a service
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nightmare this motor could end up being
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like that uh but uh I I would choose a
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Toyota any day of the week over Land
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Rover liability I think off-road the
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defender is is better from what I've
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read um but I like body on frame I like
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the towing capabilities that this uh can
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do in case I ever get like want to tow
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one of my classic cars to get serviced
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or something or do a track day in a GT3
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maybe if I buy one one day it's just
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nice to have
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options um and the torque is really nice
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from the motor for doing uh Towing like
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that and the only other kind of minor
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gripe I have as well is the ride uh over
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speed bumps and stuff is a little
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jarring like a little bit but I think
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that's also why it
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handles uh kind of more uh carlike which
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is nice for like when you're traveling
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or just need to take a turn that you
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didn't realize you need to take doesn't
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feel like it's going to roll over so I
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kind of accept uh the good with the bad
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on that most of the time it's great but
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over some bigger bumps it can be kind of
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jarring I think I think
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off-road um that that probably won't be
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as big of an issue cuz it's more like
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rolling undulations and you're you're
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not hitting like big jumps I'm not at
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least I'm not hitting big
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jumps I'm not jumping speed bumps off
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road one of the little small things
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before we finish this
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video is I've noticed a little bit of a
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rough
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idle but I think it's just normal um
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this is a six-cylinder you know the V8
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and a Land Cruiser is silky smooth and I
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think it's just normal um it kind of
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will come and go it might be based on
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the AC compressor you know how some cars
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like when the AC compressor's off it'll
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have like a little bit of a rougher
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lower idle um but I don't think it's
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it's any big issue I think that's just
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the way they engineered the
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car um I haven't got to take it Offroad
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yet but I probably will do that and
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we'll do a video on taking it Offroad
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and some state parks we have uh east of
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where we live and we can see uh how that
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goes but so far so good uh hope you guys
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enjoyed the video um if you did like
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we'll have more videos coming along here
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very soon
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all right have a great day
