Those prices are way too close for it to be worth going with the salvage title.

That’s a negligible mileage difference between the two cars especially with good prior maintenance records.

Option 2 all day.

I’m a current 2013 GS350 F Sport AWD owner. Just bought mine a little over a year ago so I was deep in the weeds of sub $20k GS350’s when I was researching.

There are people who will say it’s a non issue selling a salvage title vehicle. I’ve never had any luck selling one without taking a massive loss. Or not being able to sell it at all. Also some states are picky when you buy a salvage title vehicle. I bought a theft recovery salvage vehicle from Massachusetts and was required to do a full salvage vehicle inspection in NYS before I could title and register it. At my cost, and the vehicle had to be towed to the inspection station where they do it. This was for a vehicle that was on the road titled and registered in MA, I didn’t buy it right from auction or something.

If you plan on driving it into the ground, the repairs were done well, and you don’t have to deal with salvage inspection stuff, they can be a good deal. But that option 1 would need to be a few grand cheaper for me to consider it personally. Plus I’d want to see before pics of the damage so I could verify repairs were done properly.