I regret to inform you that the 55 inch TV is the largest TV you can fit in after the Lexus LS 500
You must love Google Photos. It backs up every photo you take, and then, from time to time, decides to curate a set of photos from your past that you have no interest in remembering. Although recently, my phone decided to remind me about moving to Detroit. As you may (but probably don’t) recall, supply chain problems made it a disaster. But that photo gallery featured a photo I took of a situation that taught me a lesson that is Important Consumer Advice: Lexus LS500 not the best car to buy a TV.
Because I left my beloved Fiat 500e (but not specifically Jalop) in Los Angeles, I used press cars to get around when I first moved to Detroit. And one of the first ones I got was a Lexus LS 500. And it just happened to come at just the right time I was frustrated enough that I didn’t have a TV to go out and buy one. After all, watching Hulu on a work laptop after work can only sustain one person for so long.
The plan seemed simple enough. Drive to Best Buy. Buy a television. Drive it home. Enjoy the big screen experience. So I jumped in the LS 500, drove to Best Buy, and tried to do exactly that. I found one that I liked and was about to buy, but luckily an employee asked me to make sure it would fit my car first. Maybe they have experience with this.
When I pulled over to the front, I folded the rear seats down, only to realize that wasn’t going to happen. If you get the Executive Pack, those seats won’t fold down. That makes sense if you think about it for even half a second, but obviously I didn’t. That means the TV has to fit in the back, not the trunk. It’s a big trunk, but it won’t fit into a TV unless we’re talking about one of those old 12 or 13-inch CRT TVs with a built-in VCR that families used to tie between seats for entertainment. their children. road trips.
Unfortunately for me, back of LS 500 It may be bold and luxurious, but it’s not bulky enough to fit a 65-inch TV. Shout out to the staff member who offered us to make sure it would fit before I paid. Also, shout out to that employee for not being weird when it’s clear that I’m not particularly familiar with the $100,000 car I’m driving.
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The 60-inch was also out, but the 55-inch seemed like it just might work. It would be tight, but, at least theoretically, it should have fit. But it didn’t. Was I really going to have to downgrade to a 50-inch like A Poor? I was a Lexus LS 500 man for the week. Living like that was simply not an option.
But after some front-seat moving, angle adjusting, and a little swearing, we finally managed to get both doors to close. That was it. I was now the owner of a 55-inch TV and would soon be able to watch Happy Endings the way it was meant to be enjoyed: not on a laptop. Hurray for me!
And also hurray for you. Because now you know that a 55-inch TV is the largest TV you can fit in the back seat of a Lexus LS 500. Next time your rich LS 500-driving friend tells you they’re going to buy a new 70-inch TV, you can authoritatively say, “No you’re not. 55 inches will work, but that’s really pushing it.” Your friend, who was definitely not just going to simply have it shipped to their house, will be in awe of your knowledge.
Hopefully, though, Lexus can fix this Very Serious Problem with a significantly wider next-generation LS. Your loyal customers shouldn’t have to settle for 55 inches, Lexus. They deserve bigger. Both TVs and flagship luxury sedans. Surely, TV hauling capacity is an important part of the LS’s development criteria. If not, it should be. Do you want your wealthiest customers to only be able to buy small TVs? I sure hope not.
