VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION ABOUT LEXUS (all model ranges)

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02-03-07, 09:23 AM

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One aspects that really puts me off the LS430 is the digital clock at the middle-top of the dashboard, just screams CAMRY.

02-03-07, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by bitkahuna

I think Lexus originally had less 'range' of interior materials from ES to LS, but now, you go from an LS into an IS or ES and there's NO comparison.

I agree, & I think the interior of the SC430 is still the best among Lexus. That's one of the main reasons I bought the car.

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I think the interior of the RX300 I owned was higher quality than the 'painted fake aluminum' plastic in the RX330/350. The first gen IS was cheap but that's because it really was a re-badged Toyota (Altezza) and aimed at the 'boy racer' crowd. The 2IS is more luxurious but the materials seem cheap compared to the GS, and definitely the IS. The latest GS may be 'subtle' but that can also be 'boring' and it has so little wood I'm disappointed.

The latest LS has also inherited some of that awful metallic painted plastic around the screen, but other than that, it's really really nice.

The latest ES to me seems only a small step above an Avalon but at least the ES doesn't have the swaths of metallic painted plastic panels, as does the Camry. Fugly.

New ES use cheaper plastic (same as those on the 2IS) on the dash & doors than the previous generation ES, but still looks quite a bit upscale than the Avalon.

02-03-07, 10:51 PM

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New ES use cheaper plastic (same as those on the 2IS) on the dash & doors than the previous generation ES, but still looks quite a bit upscale than the Avalon.

That cheap metallic painted plastic actually is an improvement over the ugly tan/black plastic in the older lexus models/stereo headunit, although maybe more wood/real metal would be nice in place of the plastic.

Alfter seeing the es 350 compareing it to the 2nd gen es and 1st gen es, I'd say the 1st generation es had less cheap plastic..almost every surface is padded and covered in leather/vinyl.

02-04-07, 12:02 AM

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Originally Posted by LexArazzo

I agree, & I think the interior of the SC430 is still the best among Lexus. That's one of the main reasons I bought the car.

That and that little trick it does with the roof.

And yeah those door handles feel great. Sometimes I just sit in there with the engine off admiring the craftmanship and I've been in more cars than a cheap hooker. The SC interior is dare I say, Bentley like. Audi is no slouch either.

02-04-07, 07:49 AM

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I remember a friend of mine showing me his new Mercedes C-Class and saying that the salesman had made a big selling point of the leather interior being "leather twin". I asked what this was and he said that only the seat facings are leather, the rest is vinyl! I had to laugh at the level of penny pinching Mercedes had stooped to. I haven't seen vinyl on car seats since 1982.