My parents are crazy random

Hahaha!

Parentals. Couldn't have made it without them, can't make it with them. Go figure. :)

My parents have always been the most random and fickle minded people I know. It is both an adorable trait as well as a point of contention (drives me up the wall all the time - I tend to be super organized in planning and scheduling - and crazy punctual) for me.

But today, they have just out done themselves once again.

This afternoon, they decided to go buy some paint (prepping to move out of our/my house - possibly here or somewhere else - read above) to paint some walls. Guess what they ended up taking back home with them?

Whatever it is, you won't guess it.

They took back with them, a FULLY LOADED LEXUS GS 450h....... I bet you were wrong right?

How one goes out to buy perhaps $50 bucks worth of paint (crazy modest estimate) and goes home with something that costs 1300x more is honestly beyond me (they didn't buy the paint either - HAHA!).

In their defense, my dad has been wanting a GS since it came out. In fact, we test drove it (and I test drove the IS 350 as well mmmm) and loved it. I can just imagine the giddish smile my dad has now. har har har.

Lexus interiors are second to none. Mercedes Benz? Sure parts are nice but aesthetically inferior. BMW? Way too many buttons (plus most euro car's center consoles are usually a mass of ugly buttons) and well just odd and overly complicated (though techies and engi's would probably love it - the other 98% of the world's population don't - there is this thing called ergonomics). Seriously. Step into one, close the door and you are sealed from the outside world.

The one they got is Pearl White (purdy) and has all the bells and whistles (cruise control with front bumper sensor, voice everything, active dampers - car stays level when cornering, sport suspension and tranny, and tons more). Before you cringe at the hybrid, this one is different. The electric motor's purpose is not really to save gas... It's for acceleration (TORQUE) and it is the fastest accelerating GS (0-60 in 5.2s).

Me biased? Hah! I'm a Nissan fan. But interiors easily Lexus > Infiniti (and also in car audio too - Mark Levinson > BOSE).

EDIT:
My younger brother pointed out that this is actually a trend when it comes to them buying cars.

It was the same with the G35 coupe (hey let's take a look at this, and ended up driving it home) and a Hyundai Santa Fe (meet us up for lunch at this place, we go there then tadaaa, new car).

So... Umm... yeah...