This is how the 1990 Lexus ES 250 served as Toyota's luxury division's entry-level offering 

I work at a Honda dealership, and a few years ago, we had a 1991 Lexus ES250 as a trade-in vehicle. It was immaculate with only 25K miles on it. The previous owner was an elderly driver who barely drove it. Not only was it rare to see an early ES250 that clean, but also rare with that many miles on it. Eventually, one of the sales managers actually bought that car, and he still has it today.

My aunt had a 90 and I loved it she sold it to my oldest sister in 2022

Loved the review, keep up the good work

Never driven one, but I have seen 1 or 2. The ES300 was so cool looking back then with the projectors. I don't remember any car having them before it 🤔

Excellent, articulate, detailed, accurate, and concise reviews! I am happy to have found your channel, and I love the focus of your content. I'm glad to be following and subscribing to you now.

Man this car is so beautiful. It really gets overshadowed by its big brother but it only makes sense. If I could have one of these with some nice A/C and my city pop playlist, I could probably die happy haha. Thanks for the very knowledge/entertaining video. Cheers!

Coming from a 1986 Nissan Maxima SE 5 speed, I test drove a 1991 Lexus ES 250 5 speed. Lexus wanted to sell them badly and they offered a goody bag just to come in and test drive one. 2 things I remember from the test drive: it felt much slower than my Maxima. It was so much larger inside than I expected. Later that year, I Test drove an Acura Vigor, Honda Accord, Infiniti M30 and Nissan Maxima. It was close between the Acura and Nissan, but in the end horsepower won. I ended up buying a loaded 1992 Nissan Maxima SE. In hindsight, I should have bought a 1992 Lexus ES 300 or perhaps an Acura Legend.

I got my first drivers license in 1992 and drove an ES250 (unsure of the year) for my driver's test. I now drive a 2001 ES300.

I remember as a kid in the early 90s when Lexus first came out I marveled out how modern and cool the ES and LS were

This was an amazing video. I loved the history aspect and great voice narration. I clicked on this video, because I am the proud owner of a 5th gen ES on the XV40 chassis. It is such an amazing car with 138k on the odometer. I've owned it for a couple of yrs, and just recently dropped 5k on some replacement parts. Drives almost brand new again. I wish there were videos like this for my '11. Gonna check out some more of your videos. Really well done video. IMHO.

Both my cousin and I owned es250s. Cool car at that time!!

I just saw a es 250 in the parking lot of Olive Garden had to go check it out! Such a cool looking car. I want one now haha nice video I’ll subscribe for more!!

I presently have one, have it about 7yrs now, drives beautiful, suspension is still tight however I'm in need of a paint job hopefully that'll be by the end of the year, maybe I'll start a RU-vid channel to show the rebuild.

Most of these old ES250s are probably crushed by now

Quite informative. I looked the footage from the Japanese market as well. I remember these as well. It is interesting how far Lexus as come. I liked the information you shared compared to Nissan as well. I know Honda was already doing its thing with Acura and then they got passed up over time. Things are really different in 2023.

Love the LS 400 more!

Should’ve changed the sheet metal a bit, at least the front before the A pilar. In relation to its Toyota reliability, I believe it would have sold better.

It's very rare compare to ls400, Thanks for the review

This was good. I've been binge watching your videos. Could you do an upload of the early 2000's Toyota Camry or Honda Accord? Those cars are still on the road today, 20 years later.

What kind of car is that at 1:29?

First video on this channel about a Lexus model. More specifically the ES 250 was their entry level model until the Lexus IS (Glorified Toyota Altezza) came to North America for the 1998-1999 model year as their proper entry level model while appealing to JDM enthusiasts. I'm surprised the Lexus ES is still in production today, largely due to it always being a glorified Toyota Camry.

Great vid! Haven't seen a "original" ES250 in quite a while. I had a really clean 90 Camry v6 briefly and I agree the build quality on these cars was amazing....Even if it was a bit...80s boxy lol.