@rlj676-Carbon Footprint Size - Clownshoe: Rode in one one time. It was nice. I guess. But not as nice as my buddy's BMW 525 wagon, which is 10 years older, and gets 10 more miles to the gallon.
My wife loves the current RX, I mean genuinely obsesses over the thing. Every time she sees one she says "ooh look there goes my car!" The most deranged part of it is that she likes it not because it's some sort of rich person status symbol that she covets, it's because she likes the styling.
Myself being someone who enjoys cars, especially car design, this comes as something quite depressing. I suppose the upside to this is that she's not a spoiled status seeker, she just has horrible taste.
On a non "personal stories" note, I cant tell if the interior is somehow cutting edge and Im not realizing it, or if it's just intentionally crap. Id expect to see that in a Honda Civic, or some odd Franco-mobile. Gotta hand it to Toyota, when they go weird, they give it their all.
Do we really need to light up the "L" logo? I mean, it's not a particularly riveting logo. It's no Roundel, 4 Rings, 3-Pointed Star, Cadillac Crest thingey, or whatever. It's just an L. Nicely drawn. But an L it is. And that pretty much sums up Lexus. Cars for people who want nicely drawn cars, but think Volvo is for people who drop acid and ride roller coasters, and shriek at the thoughts of a BMW or a Mercedes. Heavens no! They want safe and boring. They do not want to be noticed amongst the field of grey-shaded cars at the company car park.
They want to be coddled. With heated seats with massaging functions and 9.75 million different seat positions, one for everybody, because if someone, somewhere, was a little uncomfortable or a little bit "offed" because their optimum seat position was .55 millimeter away from the front, uggh, perish the thought.
Their design must be so bland, you can not tell cars apart. They only build hybrids because a fortune teller told them that in the future, everyone would drive them. Then Lexus wouldn't have a hybrid! They would be. .perish the thought- DIFFERENT! AHHH! So, away they went.
So, is what I'm saying is that eventually, Lexus will be building only one model. See a concept sketch below.
@Schm, problems around every corner: I never thought of Volvo drivers as the roller-coaster type. Compared to Lexus owners, maybe. But standard Volvo activities include "driving to the health food store", "ascending an unplowed back road", and "plastering one's car with bumper stickers", as far as I can tell.
Not that I've actually done two out of those three things with mine, just sayin'.
Mmh as an owner of the current RX 400H, I find this new version not very exciting. The prototype they introduced some time ago was so much more promising... I'm sure it will be an even more the perfect robot than the current version..
No driver's car fun with the 400H, but is so damn relaxing cruising in it..
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It scored 3 stars in the "Impending crane of doom" crash category.
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That has to be the worse vehicle on the road to me. So ugly, so expensive, yet so popular?
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Myself being someone who enjoys cars, especially car design, this comes as something quite depressing. I suppose the upside to this is that she's not a spoiled status seeker, she just has horrible taste.
On a non "personal stories" note, I cant tell if the interior is somehow cutting edge and Im not realizing it, or if it's just intentionally crap. Id expect to see that in a Honda Civic, or some odd Franco-mobile. Gotta hand it to Toyota, when they go weird, they give it their all.
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Back to the vehicle itself. I th....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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They want to be coddled. With heated seats with massaging functions and 9.75 million different seat positions, one for everybody, because if someone, somewhere, was a little uncomfortable or a little bit "offed" because their optimum seat position was .55 millimeter away from the front, uggh, perish the thought.
Their design must be so bland, you can not tell cars apart. They only build hybrids because a fortune teller told them that in the future, everyone would drive them. Then Lexus wouldn't have a hybrid! They would be. .perish the thought- DIFFERENT! AHHH! So, away they went.
So, is what I'm saying is that eventually, Lexus will be building only one model. See a concept sketch below.
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Arguably, also appropriate.
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Not that I've actually done two out of those three things with mine, just sayin'.
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No driver's car fun with the 400H, but is so damn relaxing cruising in it..
/snore