Here's Why This One Option Package Costs as Much as a New Toyota Camry
The 2018 Lexus LS500 is already a luxurious car. It’s got leather
everywhere you look, and it’s loaded with the latest technology. With no
options whatsoever, the car already costs $75,200. But if you really
want to go all-out, it has one single option box you can tick off that
costs an astounding $23,000.
Twenty-three thousand dollars. To put that in perspective, you can
walk into a Toyota dealership right now, and pay $23,845 for a new
Toyota Camry. You’ll pay less if the dealership gives you a deal on it,
which I don’t see why they wouldn’t.
But there are likely no
discounts whatsoever on the most expensive option package on the Lexus
LS, known as the “Executive Package with
Kiriko glass.”
That little screen, my friends, is the key to the kingdom.
From
that little screen you can not only recline both seats, the back right
seat unfolds into an ottoman-adorned recliner, pushing the front
passenger seat out of the way as it does so, because only peasants sit
in the front. Both rear seats benefit from extensive shiatsu massage
programs, complete with a “spot heater” that applies heat in just the
small spot where you are currently feeling massage pressure, as as to
better replicate the feel of a human hand gently pushing against your
backside.
Because you paid $23,000 for it, damn it. You
need the
feeling of a human hand, especially considering as the level of wealth
you need to accrue simply to be able to afford such an option
necessitates, fundamentally, a distance from other “humans.” Might as
well simulate it then.
Of course, a screen would be a bit silly if
all you used it for was extremely precise control of the backrest, seat
bottom, head rest, seat heating, seat cooling, lumbar support, level of
cushioning, massage, spot heater, ottoman, and all 22 ways the rear
seats could possibly move. What a terrible waste that would be, of
course.
So you can also control all of the audio for the rest of
the car, the privacy shades that emerge from the bottoms of the rear
doors and the rear windshield, and the interior lighting.
(Jalopnik.com)
