Ougrad1.... Wow...we "HSE Folks" hit a nerve, huh? Good lord. I personally was not attacking your LUX. I'm sure its fabulous. I didn't realize people on here got so heated when we all drive the same car. I mention the cameras in my post and referred to it on a LUX bc the only posters I have seen on here with Vision Assist and with those problems happen to drive the LUX. I am well aware that package is separate and not standard on the LUX. We are all on the same team here and love our Land Rovers and we could have afforded the LUX, but it wasn't crucial to me and I could have never gotten it for the price you did bc there is one dealership in my area and that's over an hour away. The next nearest is 4 hours away. I paid more for my HSE than you did for your LUX. Kudos to you. That was an impossibility for me. And what I wanted most in the car (navi, bluetooth, backup camera, iPod,) came standard on the HSE, so I was sold.
Again, no need to get your back up. It's not us vs you. HSE v LUX. It's our experiences we share for basically the same car we all share and love.
UGgirl97,
Believe me, I don't take your post personal and am sorry if I used your post as an example of inaccuracy as it was. I honestly don't remember whose posts I used and replied more based on the content of the posts I read. Thus I never called anyone out but I do feel strongly about making sure new posters who ask questions regarding the packages do get an honest, accurate view...sorry if I got you worked up there.
Obviously, it will be subjective, which is why they are asking for both sides. But let's face it, what comes from staunch HSE owners is at times inaccurate and baseless regarding the LUX options. That's where you guys are not understanding you are not actually helping the potential customer at all. For instance, you may have understood that the vision assist package doesn't come with the lux and can come with HSE but your post communicated otherwise. This may leave them to think the LUX has camera issues when it doesn't and don't know some of the folks with issues were actually also HSE owners too. Can you see how that is not helpful?
This should be a more engaging topic where flat-dumb assumptions are left out. I have no business commenting on the longevity of HSE leather or your projector lights as I have no idea how they function daily. Any attempt on my part about how the HSE might be lesser to the LUX would be assumptions only on my part as I don't own an HSE...well, basically I do but you get the point. But I can tell you why I appreciate my cooler box on long Texas drives to visit the inlaws, how the auto-highbeams are very nice and the memory seat is great for after my car wash guy moves my seat around , I can just hit a button to move it back to where it was. It does seem like HSE owners have way too many assumptions on why the LUX package options may not be worth it, which is fine as it's your own opinion, but the reasons given are often pure assumptions that as a LUX owner, I know isn't accurate.
Also, thanks for sharing your purchase experience as like I mentioned before, had you been able to get a LUX for what you paid for your HSE or what I paid, you would have gladly taken it. I was not looking for the LUX either so I feel like I understand where most of the HSE folks come from...for $60k, all the LUX options were not worth it to me at the time. For $48k, hell yea!
I'm sure I repeated myself a few times in this post as it's late but I honestly am trying to communicate this as not to upset folks but to hopefully ask that the HSE folks put a little more thought not around your opinions on why you chose an HSE, but the assumptions you're making about the LUX options or at least qualifying them better since you do have resident "LUX experts" who will gladly offer our experiences, good and bad. That to me would be more of what you termed "on the same team." I may be the most vocal LUX owner but I think this is something that will help this small community going forward.
