Fitzgerald

I live near Geneva and will visit the car show either this Friday or next. I have ordered an RX450h without seeing one in the flesh. (I did this a few weeks ago, two days before the order books opened up in Europe.) There will be one on the Lexus stand. I will have a camera. Is there anything anyone wants to know or see?

The European package and option lists are very different from the USA ones. While the dealer showed me a fax of the price list when I ordered, I don't actually have either the price list or the brochure/catalog. If I get one, I will scan and post.

For info, the RX will replace my 5-year-old MB E320 4Matic wagon. And I like what someone else has called the diaper-content color, so I ordered that.

Momo

PatsSoxfan

My wife and I have also ordered the RX450h without seeing it. We placed the order a week ago this past Friday. I hope the order is accepted since there has been nothing official out yet as far as ordering is concerned. We went with the Tungsten Pearl with black interior.

encore888

Welcome to ClubLexus and congrats on your RX 450h order!

BTW, when do you expect to receive the RX 450h in Switzerland?

lex

Welcome to CL!

I would like to know the differences between the Europe and US models.

And I would like to see a photo of the gear lever area

And also for some reason I would like to see a more detailed pic of

Lexmex

Welcome to the Club

Audriuss

Hi there mate. It would be great, I u could take pics of buttons around steering wheel that are lower. I lexus.com gallery you could only see a part of them, but not clearly. It is intresting where they put all height control and what other buttons they have..thanks

Fitzgerald

The sales guy estimated July 20th. Shipments to Europe star in June. He ordered 20 on the day the ordering opened.

Momo

Fitzgerald

Here is the photo of the lower front, as requested. It was pretty dark under there. This was the best I could do, even with flash.

Fitzgerald

Here is the gear lever area.

Fitzgerald

Nothing major to note from the show. The European price list has only been official since Tuesday. They did not have the lists of the package contents for each trim/option level. In round terms, the base model costs US$75k here, with the two other mainstream packages at about $77k and $88k. The "High tech" model is also about $88k. There is no import duty here and VAT is 7.6%. Prices reflect what the Swiss market can absorb and Swiss labour and real estate costs. Typically that makes us about 10% more than Germany but 15% lower than the UK, for example.

They now also supply the GS hybrid without a spare wheel (with pump/foam thingy) which still does not give a large enough boot/trunk for me to really want it. The volume is really a problem.

The IS250C was on the stand and looks good. The boot/trunk has even less room than a Mercedes SLK or BMW 3 series, I I think I will keep my CLK 500.

PatsSoxfan

I was hoping ours would get here by no later than late June so we can drive it from the Midwest on our scheduled trip to Seattle about the first of July. It's a long wait.

lex

thanks for the pics!

Lexmex

Nice shots

encore888

Thx for the pics, Fitzgerald! On the pic of the center dash, the navi screen has a weird display, at least it doesn't match the menu setup/colors seen elsewhere. Diagnostics perhaps? Or DVD video?

Fitzgerald

It was deep in the setup menu. The four main icons at the top level were exactly as seen elsewhere.