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Detroit, 11:50 PM
Thu Dec 3
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It scored 3 stars in the "Impending crane of doom" crash category.
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05/07/09
That has to be the worse vehicle on the road to me. So ugly, so expensive, yet so popular?
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Look at it as an evolution. Station wagons, SUVs and minivans were all products of automotive evolutions.
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THANKS.
02/23/09
Believe me, these trips are like pulling fingernails. Hours and hours of time wasted on planes and in airports which I don't get paid for, getting the schmaltzy sweet pitch from polished PR men, ridiculously expensive digs and meals all in a lead up to something as silly as driving a car. It's obnoxious. Liken it to a chef in a restaurant serving every dish with frois gras, shaved black truffles and delicate gold leaf. It's a bribe trying to influence you're opinion.
I'd much rather stay in my very comfortable apartment, near to my very nice girlfriend, and get an RX parked in my driveway for a week for a real review. In the 28 hours I was in Georgia, the RX was made available for driving for about 4 hours.
It may sound like we're bragging but we're not. Junkets are obnoxious and part of the way the old boys club worked/works. We go on them because that's the way the business still operates, but they provide access to the cars. All the other stuff which goes along with it is plain baloney. If I could sweep it all aside right now, I would do so happily; It would save us time, it would save automakers giant wads of cash, and it would make my life easier, but we aren't the ones with the cars, so we don't make the rules.
02/23/09
P.S. Did you go near Sea Island? I went there last summer, and I recognize that bridge.
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It's a competent, boring mom-mobile. But they do have good dealer service (at least from our experience)
02/23/09
The RX is not a drivers car, but at least it does not pretend to be one, unlike other cars in the same segment that are much worse to drive than the RX... I've tried them all, and for me the RX was by far the best compromise.
A compromise because I really wanted a nice luxury wagon, that is reliable as a Lexus, comfortable as a Lexus, advanced as a Lexus and has the price of a Lexus.. if only VW or Audi would build one...
The first drive impression is far from complete, the Hybrid offer some interesting new technologies, again many years ahead of the competition.
I'm not so fond of the new styling, but it makes sense, just as all the other improvements/refinements make sense.
I know I'm not going to convert the haters, nor do I care. I understand their point of view, well from those few that have at least tried to drive a RX, but there is just no point in expecting to drive a muscle car while sitting in a Lexus... both have the right to exist, both have their share of the market...
if only it was a wagon...
02/23/09
You got it right. The RX is probably the gold standard in Nice, Comfortable transportation.
As long as you didn't do this:
...then to thine own self thou art true.