A Grand Sport 25 years ago - a Grand Shed now?
Since the '60s at least, and possibly long before that, car manufacturers have tried to suggest the level of luxury on offer in their models by tacking letters onto the ends of their names. By the '80s we all understood that a GL was better than an L, and that a GLX was better than a GL, even if we didn’t actually know what any of those letters stood for.
The other meaning of the GS in GS 300 is Grand Sport. Shed has no idea what kind of sport could ever be classified as grand. Ferret racing up north is a possible example but he can’t confirm that as he has never been above the Watford Gap. He can confirm however that there is very little that is sporty about a Lexus GS 300, which is fine because nobody ever bought a GS 300 to put it through its paces on a racetrack.
Thing is though, in 2023 there is something mysteriously grand about a GS 300. This year-one, second-generation from 1998 is an SE, another of those alphabetty-spaghetti tack-ons which we all think might mean Special Equipment, and which puts it somewhere near the top o’ the range. That’s correct in Lexus Land as SE is one below Sport, which is the best spec because, well, it’s Sport innit. In equipment terms any GS was at least the equal of, and usually superior to, any comparable rival.
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