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Originally Posted by Tundrav8yamaha

as long as your happy and justify your decision to get what your intitled too really all that madders in my book. I personally think toyota is stilly to offer there top of the line seq platinum with outdated navigation since the infiniti and nissan aramada offers nicer hdd equipment at a nicer price point.toyota needs to review what is offered esp at the given price I would skip toyota entirely given the factors above or get a lexus gx or lx.

Trust me...I'm no rabid toyota fan. I simply buy the the best vehicle on the market that meets my particularly needs at the time I'm shopping. I shared those needs above with the thought that others might have those same needs.

I've owned many GM vehicles and would have bought another if it was the best option. I carefully considered the Escalade, Armada, QX56, Denali, Sequoia and Navigator. No other vehicles were in the running due to tow capacities and general level of luxury features. Money was not a deciding factor as all of these were in a general ballpark that was equivalent to me. The toyota twins LX & LC, the MB GL and Range Rover were all too small for my needs, plus only the GL has seats that fold into the floor.

On balance, the Sequoia wins relatively hands down with only the QX56 giving it a run for its money based on the features I found important. Namely power, interior space, interior flexibility, drivetrain, several key luxury features and to a smaller extent the overall esthetics of the vehicle.

• The Sequoia and GM twins win on power.
• The Sequoia, Nissan twins and Ford win on interior flexibility
• Of these, the the Nissan twins lose the interior space race.
• The drivetrains were good on all of the choices.
• Luxury goes to the GM's with the QX running close. The Platinum Sequoia kept Toyota from getting knocked out of the running but they clearly could have done a better job and my guess is that the next 6-7yrs of this model's refinements will be mostly focused on the interior.
• Esthetics (my tastes) goes to the Sequoia. The Caddy is too gaudy, and the Denali is too bug-eyed (I liked the looks of the previous gen Denali far better). The QX and Armada are simply too odd in the c-pillar and front end. The Navigator looks too close to being a minivan.

So much for my opinions. Maybe they match others or maybe they are the opinion of one, but my guess is that the Sequoia will be behind the sales of the GM luxury twins and will pull far ahead of the Nissan or the Ford products in terms of units sold this year.

Its also my guess that the LX and LC will disappear from the US market over the next 5 yrs. For all intents and purpose they are effectively gone already in terms of unit sales.

They're overpriced because they are imported from Japan and offer very little for the $10-20K premium over the Sequoia. Once Toyota has weaned the Japan manufacturing plants down to ROW only without the US volume for the LC/LX, I expect that the US plants will be upgraded to handle a Lexus version of the Sequoia. When that happens, the LC and LX will be dropped from the US model line-up all together.