Introduction 2019 LEXUS UX Review Late in 2018 LEXUS launched their new small SUV, the UX. The name comes from a somewhat unimaginative combination of Urban and (X)Crossover. They saw a gap in the market and a chance to offer an entry level luxury car to newcomers to the brand. The SUV market is crammed full of so LEXUS [...]
Citroën C3 Aircross VS LEXUS UX The world is continuing its move away from passenger cars of old towards SUVs. Vale The Passenger Car. All the big players are stuffing market gaps left and right, and everyone else has to follow. I’m constantly amazed at the things designers do with a two-box design. Manicured interiors combine a touch of the [...]
2019 LEXUS LC 500 Overview Not long ago, LEXUS the never broke down, but you wished they would. They were dull, and made you lose the will to live, Then, hey made the LFA, and lo! it was good. It is made of exotic materials like carbon fibre and plastic. The body and panels are fashioned from aluminium, making them [...]
Sydney to Shoal Bay in an LC500 LEXUS says their flagship LC coupe is a GT car. They say it is quiet and comfortable in the true spirit of GT cars of old. They suggested we take it up the highway a bit, so we did. The figures are huge, huge, huge, I tell you, huge! First there’s the [...]
2019 LEXUS RC350 F Sport Overview LEXUS, and mother company, Toyota, said they no longer wanted to make cars that were boring. Havne’t they done well? They’d rather polarise a jaded public, than bore them rigid as they had in the past. New LEXUS models have all sorts of creases, lines, and folds, to move the eye over the voluptuous [...]
Long ago, LEXUS and mother company, Toyota, decided to make cars that people either love or hate. They would rather people be polarised than bored to death. 5 years ago LEXUS brought us the RC 350. It was joined a year later by the 4 cylinder RC 200t turbo in 2015. https://youtu.be/746fRW8z7-I 2014 Lexus RC 350 Luxury Since [...]
LEXUS ES 300h There is a full list of features and prices in the written review: LEXUS’ new ES is one of the smoothest riding cars I’ve ever travelled in, bar none. https://youtu.be/MxpnOon4tQw A big claim, but it‘s true. Not only that, it is unbelievably spacious, which can only really be appreciated from the back seat. The new car [...]
2019 LEXUS ES 300h Road Test, Review Introduction: LEXUS quietly let loose the brand new ES saloon with no fuss or fanfare. Some say it is pretty, others say it is busy. I think the handsome coupe-like profile looks the business. The smooth riding LEXUS comes only in a hybrid drivetrain with two trim levels, Luxury and Sports Luxury. [...]
2018 LEXUS LX 450d Review and rating Intro If you think LEXUS LX 450d and 570 look spookily like Toyota’s Landcruiser, you’re right. In fact, they are sister cars. LEXUS took the Toyota and gave it a bit of spit and polish. A huge spindle grille might work on the sleek front of sexy little IS sedan, but the [...]
LEXUS started life in Australia 30 years ago as the LS400, with a V8, so now there is the LS500. Now, for the first time, the Japanese limo is offered with a twin turbo V6 instead. We’ll be reviewing the tasty V6 hybrid soon. LS500 comes from the same studios which have input into Toyota stablemates, so there are [...]
