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The Lexus UX Makes the Best Little Luxury SUV
By William Mutugi

Everything you wish to have is packed in this little luxury Lexus SUV.

spwolf

i was actually quite surprised reading euro reviews that mostly all loved UX250h, despite quite few of them hating hybrids (especially german based media).

What I found interesting was Spanish review that mentioned how Lexus expects UX250h to sell 5k a year in Spain, while last year total sales were 7k (i thought it was crazy target) and journalist mentioned how this is short selling the car as it is much better and it should get more sales.

mmarshall

When I first did the static (non-test-drive) review, I was not impressed with the UX...I found it cramped and somewhat stark inside. However, when I went back and did the test-driveon the road, I was surprised to find the UX actually drove better than the larger NX, especially in the important (to me) areas of ride-comfort and quietness, where IMO the NX is not impressive at all.

Benoit

Luxury => unable to paint the plastic around the wheels.

bitkahuna

iTrader: (20)

maybe it would look worse if it WAS painted. either way, if it's an issue, get a black one.

situman

It is great that Lexus captures the value and reliability conscious folks. What if they make a real effort in capturing the performance minded folks too instead of just paying lip service to performance?

RX469

iTrader: (1)

I agree with you, that black plastic don't portray luxury, let that be on Toyota, but at these prices it should be color matched.

LexBob2

A while back I was looking at the Audi Allroad wagon and you could order the vinyl cladding to match the paint color. For $1,000!

arentz07

To be fair, I think the black plastic thing is all right when done in a more conservative way.

The X1, for instance, has much thinner plastic cladding that isn't so distracting.

Toys4RJill

-J-P-L-

Even on the RX they are unpainted, but since they're thinner they don't stand out as much.

bitkahuna

iTrader: (20)

white cars certainly make 'em look worse.

rmason

best? I think not.
I received a brand new rental while my unit was in for service. Quite a lot of plastic inside, lot less sound dampening with noticeable cvt drone and no heated seats.
Had I been blindfolded, I would have thought I was driving a rav-4 not that rav-4 is a bad car just different price point. I don't know if it was the hype but was rather disappointed with the car altogether.