the lexus RX was an early entry into the field of luxury crossover SUVs 4 2015
the RX 350 is a comfortable car that impresses with its responsive engine
general comfort but comes up short in a few areas the engine and transmission or
stand out positive feature of the RX 350 it really gets up and goes whether
you're trying to accelerate away from a stoplight or making a pass on the
highway standout negative feature though I'm afraid of the steering it's over
boosted there's just too much assist now that's not always bad if you're driving
around the parking lot for instance that's when you want all that boost the
problem comes in at highway speeds
there's just no sensation of how far you're turning wheel and took me a long
time to get used to and I think Alexis would be better served to just dial it
back a little bit at the higher speeds moving inside the RX 350 it's kind of a
mixed bag i like how everything was laid out very easy to find very easy to just
get in and drive there's not a lot of programs you have to adjust so the RX
350 was recently redesigned and there's not a lot that's brand-new inside here
but one thing that has changed is this multimedia system input and it's not so
great the old system i liked a lot it had a pretty stiff joystick here
it also had buttons on either side for inputs it was pretty easy to use sort of
like using a mouse on your desk at work is great the new system there's just no
sensation of where you are when you move this around very hard to make a
selection on the menu and finally the buttons on the side are gone and so to
make any sort of input you have to press down the button many times I felt like
that move the cursor around where I didn't want it to be I just can't think
that this is an improvement over what was there now
judging by the layout and the interior of the RX I just wasn't wild I kind of
got in and thought wow this is one nice toyota toyota is the parent company
Alexis in case you didn't know it's not that this is bad or ugly or cheap or
anything it's just the first of all we're paying more than 2,700 dollars for
the premium package to get this interior and i just wasn't $PERCENT while the way
I was interiors from
editor's such as audi and accurate moving back to the second row the room
is acceptable I'm 6 foot 2 i've got the seat where I would have it as you can
see I've got plenty of legroom Headroom is also nice
the only thing I would say is that the seat is a little low so many user just a
touch higher than what I would normally like them to be but this is nowhere near
as claustrophobic and some other SUVs in this class candy the RX 350 is obviously
an SUV so it's good for carrying cargo what's nice is that Lexus included a few
thoughtful features to make it easier to live with
for starters there are these levers that fold the rear seats
ok lot of people do that but it is sort of nice to be carrying large or long
items
what like this thought of that's really nice is that rear seat slides and
reclines and no matter how far it moves there's a little flap their that covers
the cargo area so there's no gap for small things to fall into just a little
feature but I found that I really liked it so we're all looking at the RX 350 as
a whole it doesn't really offer a rewarding driving experience
yes there is that responsive engine but the steering is just too numb to take
advantage of it also that multimedia system control just isn't up to par now
the positives are what you would want in a luxury car that same comfort that
maybe deadens the enjoyment for the driving enthusiasts makes it a good car
to just eat up the miles the lack of road noise the lack of wind noise is
really nice so after breaking new ground many years ago and be one of the first
on the scene with a luxury SUV it's nice to see the lexus hasn't really messed up
the RX but I don't think they've taken a universal step forward
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