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Originally Posted by Tundrav8yamaha
I think sales of the platinum will be killed within a few year's just like Avalon having this trim level for the 1999 model platinum edition which never returned ever again in that model . Allthought im sure you justify your purchase like the rest of us loyal owners I do disagree with you on a few physical aspects on platinum replacing luxury name plates which doesn't compare. Toyota has always been Value not Luxury .Should we compare an Avalon to the Ls460? sadly different class inself since These Nitch nameplates have there place.Number one the data on first gen seq owners very likely will remain the same Toyota didn't go upscale with this model period just raised the content of a new powerfull 5.7 liter v8/6 speed.
When it come to Buyer demograhic I know a ts member who had a 2004 seq limited ($40k)who is 22 years old switched to a Diesal Dodge ram 05 to a new 07 Tundra limited Trd crewmax yet his income didn't exceed those levels as found on those reports.Wile date is good from buyer demographic it can be very misleading in a few ways thus not a good source of information.I have enjoyed this post to some degree but put off on the remarks back and fourth however its been a great debate I have to say. I'm heading home it's been intresting reading this thread as I have not much to say at present.
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They are are just opinions so don't take mine or anyone else's too seriously. Toyota's a large corporation and they make their decisions based on self-interest and profit. If maintaining a broad, extensive and sometimes overlapping product portfolio makes more money than a more limited portfolio, then they'll keep products like the LC and the sequoia together on the showroom floor for as long as the money is rolling in. When its stops, they will adjust accordingly. Its just my outsider opinion (and only an opinion of one) that a less overlapping and more limited menu of products will in the end make more money for Toyota.
BTW I don't consider myself necessarily loyal to Toyota or for that matter even the Sequoia. I buy the vehicle I like that best fits my needs at the time. I pay in cash and generally cost is a not a limitng factor (within reason), although I like a good deal as much as the next guy. As I've posted before I've owned BMWs, Pontiacs, Buicks, Nissans, Toyotas, GMC's, Cadillacs and VW. In each case they were the car that best met my needs and I leave a manufacturer as soon as someone else makes a better product.
I do own an Avalon and its my 3rd one (I actually owned a 99 Platinum Avalon - Lunar mist ...I think they all came in that color), simply because its my wife's car and that's what she likes, plus I'm comfortable in it and it has huge back seat leg room for tall kids. It wouldn't be my first choice but that's what she likes.
I'll stay with the Sequoia so long as its the best product to meet my needs which currently nothing else achieves. The real question is whether there's lots of folks with similar needs that end up considering the LC as I did and choosing the Sequoia or am I just an anomaly? Time and the marketplace will decide regardless of the opinions expressed here.....but aren't the opinions fun anyways?