Facelifted LX570 / Land Cruiser
07-14-15 | 02:35 AM
#227
Pole Position
Joined: Jan 2004
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From: Florida
People like their navigation system screens at eye-level. You will notice that if you look at where many drivers place their portable aftermarket (TomTom, Garmin) units -- they suction cup them to the middle of the windshield -- in the middle horizontally and vertically (below the rearview mirror). It is right at eye-level but also blocks a significant portion of the windshield.
By looking at the pictures from other perspective it seems that RX navigation follows the line of the dash when being looked at it from the drivers seat. So it maybe doesn't stick out after all and it doesn't pop into your view. Navigation in GS or LS is also placed above the gauges but it was still under the dash and under the windshield line while on RX it didn't seems so at the first glance. I guess all is good except that its ugly
07-14-15 | 04:23 AM
#228
Lexus Champion
Joined: Jan 2005
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It could be a human interface design issue - a center dash screen placed higher up only requires the eyes to move horizontally, and then quickly focus on the road ahead, whereas the X5's screen requires a down-right movement to view and up-left movement to look at the road again.
07-14-15 | 07:53 AM
#230
Lexus Champion
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i think you will grow to like it in time... looks good IMHO, now LS and GS look like they have huge dashes. It is functional and it is still well integrated, does not stick out completely like in Audi's.
07-14-15 | 09:52 AM
#232
07-14-15 | 11:59 AM
#233
i can vividly remember how people trash on the design when euro had it
