Freds430

After 25 years of Honda's and than Acura's I bought a 2013 Lexus 300H last week. My last two cars were RL's which I really enjoyed. Something has happen at Acura as far as quality. J D Power ranks them 26 out of 33 in initial quality and 12 out of 31 in dependability. These are not good rankings but of even more concern is year after year the rankings are dropping. My wife converted from Acura's awhile ago with a SC430 and now her RX350.

So for my new purchase I am loving it so far. No more timing belts to change, less maintenance, much better gas mileage, back up camera that I can actually see, never own a car now without blind spot monitoring and parking sensors, the apps with Pandora, Bing and I Heart Radio, a nav screen that I can see with polarized sunglasses. Here comes the but. I have about 25 preset XM stations down the left of my screen and all that shows is the station number and not the identifying name like ESPN. My wife's 2010 RX350 even shows the name of the station along with the number. To the Lexus engineers GRRRR!!!!,

Mike728

Congrats on the new purchase!

I, too, was initially upset about the way XM shows up on the nav. Then I listened to it for a while and it sounded so compressed, I just couldn't take it anymore. Pandora, and especially Slacker, sound much better. Plus, they're free, or cheaper, if you opt out of the commercials.

wasjr

While this may not work for your 25 presets as my wife and I only have about 8 presets on her 300h (she pretty much sticks to Elvis, but I am a skipper between XM and local sports). I scroll through them using the steering wheel controls, and the nav screen split with audio shows station, song, and artist.

I am on my third MDX and if you had ventilated seats on your Acuras, I would be curious as to your comparison with the 300h. That is my principal "but" with the 300h.