Need new/used/lease large sedan

Husband is looking for a spacious comfortable sedan. 2-3 years used, something new, or something in either category coming off a lease. He has a 2017 Toyota Avalon now that he may or may not trade in.

He’s looking at the new Toyota Crown Platinum that he says is replacing the Avalon that Toyota is discontinuing. I think he’s crazy to look at a car for that kind of money. I’m trying to get him to look at least at used cars that are spacious and comfortable with good gas mileage. He’s agreed to look at 2-3 yr used ones.

Any recommendations for a car that he should/could look at?

Sure, my advice is for him to do nothing, keep driving the Avalon which he already owns, and save his money. And of course, keep up on the maintenance, so it lasts longer. To this day, I cannot understand why otherwise intelligent people will spend tens of thousands of dollars, and incur debt to replace a perfectly good, functional vehicle, with a new(er) similar model.

I could understand if one needs a different type of vehicle, for example, if one owns a coupe, but now they have kids and need a van. But spending all this money to buy a different vehicle which does the same exact thing??? Think twice.

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Here we go again. You just bought a used vehicle and it has problems and you want to do it again ??

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If he wants a new car, the Toyota Crown seems like a pretty good choice. I wouldn’t advise trading-in the Avalon to buy a used car. Just keep with the Avalon in that case.

The new Camry is excellent, or a lightly-used ES350h.

Why does he want to replace the 2017 Avalon? It’s OK to do that “just because” as long as you two can afford it. The Avalon was produced through the 2022 model year. If he likes the 2017 I’m sure he’ll like the 2022 and it will cost a lot less than the Crown.

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Well, couple reasons for another car - one of our kids’ died and the thought was he’d give them his Avalon and get himself another car. The other is I think he’s of the mindset that he just wants a newer car. Maybe he thinks he deserves one. I don’t know. It’ll most likely be the last car he’ll ever get. Personally I think there’s others out there much less expensive similar to if not the same as the Avalon. And he does like the Avalon. I just think it’s ridiculous to pay the ridiculous amount of $$ new cars go for now. But he wants what he wants.

And I agree with bcohen2010’s statement “I cannot understand why otherwise intelligent people will spend tens of thousands of dollars, and incur debt to replace a perfectly good, functional vehicle, with a new(er) similar model.” Which is why I had my Mazda for over 20 yrs. But now it’s trying to help one of our kids.

But I will suggest the other Avalon years and the Camry and lightly-used ES350h (is that a Camry?) that both jtsanders and texases mentioned. He likes them to be roomy and he’s into all the tech stuff (which I can live without), so if those cars are all that, he may like them.

Stop already. Any car can have a problem, brand new or used. The only real problem I see with mine is this crack going on, which is actually scary to me. The others were the headlights, which it turns out EVERY car on the road has the same “problem” and the road noise. And not one of any of the cars you’ve had have ever had a problem, right??

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I agree. But I’m not him…or rather he’s not me.