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Let me guess: never had hybrid cars before? 😁

Did she forget to press brake pedal and so NX did not start? 😇

Yes, German people say so 😄. At the moment level 2 in Lexus gives adaptive cruise control, automatic braking in some emergencies, lane keeping and some other features for safety, like adaptive high beam and sleepiness monitoring.

About facelift, probably recent models have more ADAS that I find not strictly necessary but very useful. The suggestion to give a look to ES300h may you give the idea of features in a level 2 assisted drive car (like all Lexus sold now are): if you are considering a GS300h (great but out of production), you should consider a ES300h too, a step beyond GS in some features but more advanced in other ones.

Good choice 😁

GS is very well silenced, better than IS so noise and vibrations are not an issue; in some cases there was a vibration at low rpm and around 45 mph but there is a TSB with a software update I made and it disappeared, same on IS300h but it needed also a little mechanical mod. GS 450h is quite refined and smooth in daily driving, but if you wanna accelerate … WOW! No troubles in any overtaking 😉

Coming from a IS300h, with a GS300h you have same power , so if you think it's enough your IS it will be ok GS 300h too. About extra costs, GS450h it's obviously more expensive, but the v6 power it's on another planet, I had a 2008 GS450h and when i bought a 2014 GS300h I missed that V6, even if in normal driving the four banger is more than adequate, and less thirsty (from 12,4 km/l of v6 to 16 km/l my average). Quality and refinement in GS is far better , even more if you choose a premier version. Space for the driver? I don't know, but seats with 18!! settings with memory are very comfortable. Now I drive a RX450h mainly for 2 reasons: I missed v6 and wanted to try a SUV, it's fast but compared to GS 450h it is "quiet".

May be you have some confusion about HSD , probably the salesman wanted to show you that once you have reached the selected speed you can keep it at very low rpm.

You have to extract emergency key pressing the slot on the side, then use a screwdriver to open in the space under the key slot.

Opps, sorry for my faulting memory 😳 , I had Hankook on former GS, now on RX I have Yokoama Bluearth Winter w905: just changed this morning and I found them no noisy. this is 2nd winter with them.

The high beam activation speed is "proper" if low beam height is well adjusted, unluckily all Lexus cars I had had low beam quite "low", and I had to adjust them all to obtain a good vision. Besides, in newer RX high beam lights have the feature to select beam off to the area occupied by vehicles keeping keeping beam all around on, very effective.

On my RX I mount Hankook Winter Icept2 (available in 235/55 R20 size).

For Lexus from euro 5 vehicles you can insert VIN number (after registering) here: https://www.lexus-tech.eu/euro5search/VehicleSpecifications I don't know if it works for earlier models.

The option 1 probably because you have not put in setup automatic model recognition, 2 is for year production (-1508 means before august 2015 model) 3 if you have radar cruise control or not.

My suggestion is to keep AC on and clean windows 🙂

After some time (4 days?) the car goes in a waiting state reducing battery draining; reducing but not deleting, as some services are always on in all modern cars.

The real question is "why", and the answer is that you left probably your keyless remote nearby your NX: if so the remote receiver stays in ready mode draining current from 12V battery faster than if remote was far away. For long periods without using car the suggestion to keep 12 V battery with an automatic charge keeper is a valid alternative.

Yes, it's normal, speed is not related with rpm like in fixed ratio gears transmissions. Depressing pedal is proportional to power you ask.

Oh, Ok, I had a 2008 GS 450h and a 2014 GS300h but my memory does not go so far 😊. My experience with RX is that, even with EV switch, if engine is cold it says "EV not available at the moment" .

First, if HV battery is someway disconnected a Hybrid car does NOT start engine, as there is not a starter 12V motor for thermal engine; so, HV is present. In normal driving after thermal engine has reached working temperature every time you slow down from about 50 mph it goes off (zero rpm); in this does not happens there are only 2 possibilities: or thermal engine has not reached working temperature or something goes wrong with temperature sensors and ECU. After some minutes of driving (with hot engine) EV should work and can be forced too with EV switch, NOT with very low temperatures or cold engine. EV is only effective with speed lower than 50 mph and with a light right foot.

Not a RX, but the hybrid system is similar, link to flood crossing:

To diminish risk of water coming into air intake, you can set EV mode to keep engine off while crossing flood.

Uhm, doesn' t they work with wireless headphones?

I had a 2008 GS 450h and a 2014 GS 300h, and with newer model I found a better handling and fuel consumption, but I missed the 450h V6, at the point that I bought a RX 450h to have a 6 banger again. Why not another GS? Just to try something different to my previous one, too similar excepts for engine.

Welcome. Provided that CT requires less gasoline and maintenance costs, IS is better.