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Rev counter can be set for all driving modes by menu, else is only for sport modes. As I see eco driving on HUD I decided to have counter in every mode.

They say "Sell and forget"...

E-cvt sytem in hybrid cars is made in such a way that if you need power you regulate it pressing right foot, this action does NOT work like usual throttle on engine, so let the thermal engine have high revs because there is not a friction that connects engine to wheels, all is made by hybrid synergy drive and you have to bet not fooled from high revs noise coming from engine (anyway it's impossible to make it work out of specs). So, do you want max acceleration? Pedal totally down.

Made some more photos, and a little 3gpp... As I don't succeed uploading here, I give link to my google drive: (hoping it is not forbidden by forum rules) https://drive.google.com/open?id=1k6AI9xbV5tFfKFGW3ULGqrhDZ9MV_sKj

Just 2 fast pics taken while experimenting video player they gave me with car ...

I will make more photos 😉

Without doubts GS is excellent and sportier, and seats are very good, while driving RX is like relaxing in a living room sofa, I already found easier to enter and exit the car. The risk from who was a GS owner is to not like the SUV mission of RX. While GS 450h is really a fast car, RX is more a family car, much more space and relaxed driving its mission (not a problem to me, as it's faster than my GS 300h). Mpg are less than GS300h , but not dramatically different for what I see, and probably the same of GS 450h respecting speed limits ;-).

Difference is great, even if both are wonderful cars. I have made too few km. to tell more, but in some way I find RX more comfy, may be because of 235/55 r20 tyres vs 235/40 r19 of GS. Another difference is in traction, GS is RWD while RX is substantially a FWD with a electrical "help" on rear wheels when it needs. V6 is a wonderful engine, and being RX younger there are some DAS more , Adaptive LED high lights very good (on GS I had only automatic led high beam switch), and sun and moon roof is very nice to me too.

After 81000 Km. of perfect service of my my 2014 GS 300h, I passed to the dark side of the force trading it for a MY 2016 RX 450h I found exactly in trim and colors I wanted, titanium grey with ivory seats and top (President?) trim. A new adventure with Hybrids , and my first SUV; may be I am getting old? 🙂 First impressions are very positive, even if RX soul si different from GS.

It's just near the key hole.

Rear fog lamp is only one, on the other side is reverse light. Manual boot opening has an enable switch in glove box to set ON. Reverse camera… ?

Have you the right 0W-20 oil?

Try making reset of navigation parameters in navi menu, it requires a full rotation of steering wheel and some miles done.

Moving in EV there is no water ingestion, it is for this reason that I wrote with hybrid the risk is less.

Ok, not IS, but Hybrid:

Keeping EV with an hybrid to pass a flooded road is somewhat safer than driving a car with thermal engine ON with the risk to have water in aspiration circuit. Of course, not pretending to transform hybrid car in a U-boot.

In GS 12V battery is 70 Ah, not so small, but of course it needs to be charged, so it's a good idea to let the car ON, as after 1 minute thermal engine reaches temperature and all system works with HV battery (recharging 12V too). My suggestion is to recharge it with a C-tek and verify voltage.

Huh? Mini VCI with Techstream on a windows laptop IS the affordable solution to read all you need from Lexus and Toyota cars.

Not so easy. The important fact is that , where present, mirrorlink can work only with supported phones: the list is in Lexus tech site.

Interesting, 2 different cars but both with a particular attention to quality. But may be that a real comparison is not possible not only for "mission" but also because of prices.

My doubts about ES are about FWD, not particularly about fun to drive, but because till some years ago for power exceeding 200 HP RWD it was necessary to transfer traction to road without problems to have RWD, but it seems that now the limit for FWD car is higher (250 HP?) and actually my last FWD car, a Hyundai Sonata 3.3 V6 with 235 HP, worked well, provided the natural differences from FWD to RWD, so I am confident about ES; I will just decide if there are real improvements or not over my GS 300h (not so sure).

May be you living in UK miss an important point: taxation. Where I live (EU) for years politics told people that if someone drives a car with many HP is rich and for this reason guilty, and at the moment for each HP exceeding 250 a owner has to pay 20 Euros more (plus the "normal tax for just having a car of 2,58 Euros /HP ). Meanwhile, speed limits are more and more controlled and even a little speed over the limit is punished in not such a proportional way. but at expensive 2 steps. So I, happy owner of a GS450h decided to trade it of for a GS300h trying to avoid to be robbed by this laws. Besides, hybrid at least have taxes only on thermal engines, imagine to pay for a car not hybrid. Same for diesel cars, illogically gasoline costs here 10 euro cents more than diesel fuel. Very rich people now tend to buy electric cars because of no ownership taxes despite all HP they can have, and electricity costs far less gasoline. All this in the name of ecology…. No wonder if Lexus decided to sell hybrid cars with less power here… And in the future it will be worse for high CO2 vehicles.

Just for who is curious about sluggyness: http://www.zeperfs.com/it/duel1342-6211.htm

The point is : Is a GS 300h more than sufficient to drive in comfort in nowadays traffic? I had a GS 450h before, and yes, it is really fast, but all that power is somewhat unnecessary, like many other cars, and if the purpose is to say "I drive a car with 0-60 in 5 seconds" ok, choose some other car, if the purpose is to live cocooned inside a car get a Lexus without worrying about how many hp has, because it has all the power it needs to move satisfactorily.

Where have you found that data Colin? 😀