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Yep does look good but I also prefer the F sport. I'm not too fussed on the Premier kit as it just annoyed me. Too many bing's and flashing lights with RCTA and BSM. I find they distract me more The ML needs tweaking a lot. I tend to leave mid where it is and stick both bass and treble up. Others have suggested moving the balance more towards the rear so it sounds natural. Some sources such as USB also sound better than others I'm not too fussed about the exhausts. Just something extra to polish! Much easier to dress the plastic diffuser My RX lights are all warm apart from the reading lights which I prefer. It feels more comforting imo with warm lights

Yep pretty noisy. Having driven the NX300h I was also disappointed in how noisy it is at full wack, especially since you have to do that more often with only 195hp! Perhaps they should listen to Johnny's suggestion and go for the ZF or perhaps the Aisin 8 speed instead!

No news of an Advance Plus IS300h. First place you'd find out is the Lexus UK Blog.

cant drive anything else now hahaha!

I guess it depends where you live. London or Manchester might not be a bad place for the NX300h as hills are few and far between. Yorkshire on the other hand is a different story! I guess many people only find out when they have bought the car already as most dont tend to go on hills on test drives.

I don't know. I've driven the NX300H and a lot of other cars including the CT. I had no issues with the CT going up the hill, or my previous RX300 or even my RX450H. The IS300H is fine too. The NX300h is an odd one, it has to rev alot to get up a hill. I was literally flooring it and it just gets tiring. Reminds me of my son's friends Fiat 500 which has trouble getting up a hill. Recently been sorted with software change.

My whole rim is exposed after kerbing. No corrosion after 3 years here. Then again I never had any on my 04 RX300 either

Hmm come to think of it, my 2004 RX300 had no trouble getting up hills and it only had 201 hp. However, it did go to a lower gear on hills to help pull the car up. With CVTs there's no gradient sensor so you have to modulate using the accelerator pedal whereas in my RX300 it'd automatically go to a lower gear if it thought the car wasn't going to get up

Yep. Still as day one. My car is garaged though :). No noises yet. Mine are actually over 3 years old now. Probably change them when they start wearing out

Agree with comments about high volumes - I usually listen at 35-40 and the clarity is unbelievable. The details are lost at volumes under 35 and it really does come alive when pumping the volume up

Exactly my point! F-type Jag's and RR Sport's hold their value very well for how much they cost to buy in the first place, as does the M4 to an extent. The RC-F has taken a pretty big hit even though there are only 200 destined for the UK in the first year. There are 30 or so on the Lexus used website which only leaves another 170 left, some of which are probably in the showrooms and some of which are unsold.

Dealer told me it was already on the boat when they were looking for stock but no one had ordered it so they bought it. UPDATE - Dealer phoned me today as I asked why it wasnt in the brochure. Turns out the car has a custom interior and is not going to be available in the UK. Somehow this one just ended up here but no idea who's it is LOL.

Hmm that's weird. I was told it was just ordered 1 month ago :/

Yep you can see it on the 2nd picture on the a pillar. It wasn't available in April. Apparently this is the first one in the UK in this colour combo. I noticed the tyres were Dunlop SP Sport Maxx and not Bridgestones

That's why I said before, the cheapest way to own a car is to get the finance contribution and then pay it all off after 14 days. With the finance contribution, it only works out cheaper if you have 0% finance, otherwise you'd get a £1k discount and get charged £3k interest so then youre worse off by £2k

Yep, available on the all IS's since their launch in 2013

Trust me its power lol. It just doesnt want to go up the hills! You have to be at halfway on the power band to get any real go

Could try it with heat proof gloves but then you wouldn't know if it's hot would you? LolI know a guy who tried feeling the heat from a stuck caliper on his cheek. Got his face stuck to the wheel and a permanent Audi logo on his face lmao

I'll have to charge you £100 an hour lmao. I have a Merc with grey interior and that's bad enough. White is a whole different level. Can't deny that it looks great though

Cheapest one on Lexus website is £52995 with only 3333 miles and registered in Feb 2015. Comes with sunroof, metallic paint and ML! Its pretty much taken a £9k hit in 5 months! :O

Id prefer an IS350 though! Appears that the RC200t is coming to the UK along with the RC300h. There'll be too much of a gap between the RC200t and the RC-F though. Lexus needs something in the UK which bridges the gap a little bit. Yes I agree an IS350 ( or a drive train that would given the similar performance ) would be ideal. An IS450h would have been perfect! I guess the IS200T wont be too bad! 7s is OK and with similiar torque to the IS350 it should feel faster! Im just wondering how an RC200T will feel. Hopefully it wont be too much weight for the 4 pot to handle.

But then they compete with the 450h which blows them away with its handing and powerrr!

As above. Should be a good fit for the blue and red exterior colours. This is the same white going to be available on the 2016 RX F-Sport too.

Yes, the equaliser and balance has to be adjusted. I got the ML system on my RX and it definitely needed adjusting

The best way to buy a car is to take the deposit contribution for finance and then pay the lot off after 14 days. That way you get the contribution (although its still best to read the small print) and only have to pay a small proportion of interest. The interest isn't exactly low rate. Even if you pay 3% on a £53k GS450h, it'd cost you an extra £1.5k a year or thereabouts as you pay it off. Eventually it works out £5-7k dearer. If you change your car on a regular basis, the 40% you talk about is depreciation, thats it. You dont own the car. Its worth noting that every stonechip, every wheel scuff and every scratch is taken into account...... at DOUBLE the price it should cost to fix when you hand the car back. Therefore, you end up actually putting about 60% in for 3 years or so. You talk about putting 100% in. Thats not entirely true. You put 100% in when buying the car, when you sell it you get 50-60% back after 3 years so it costs 40-50% instead of 60%. When you take the £54k into account the 10-20% difference is huge!